Epic Edits Weblogs is another blog that I regularly read for great tips on photography. One of the great article is a list of 9 post processing techniques to improve your photographs. Even though Brian (the guy behind Epic Edits) titled the article “9 Photoshop techniques…”, I believe most of these techniques can be achieved by using many other alternatives (GIMP, Corel Paint Shop Pro etc.).
Reading through the list, I realise that I have been applying many of the techniques to make my photos more visually appealing!
Here’s a quick summary of the techniques:
- High Contrast Color
- High Contrast B&W
- High Color Saturation
- Vintage Look
- Lomo Look
- Oversharpen
- Texturize
- Add Vignette
- Add Noise & Grain
You can see at least 3 techniques used in my post box photograph above. The only technique that I’ve never thought of using is adding Noise & Grain. Most of the time, I’ll be too obsessed about reducing noise.
Have you used any of the above techniques? Why not share with us how it worked for you? Drop us a comment.
Brian Auer recently conduct a little experiment that produced fascinating results. He posted the above photograph and invited people to edit and upload their results. Even though the original photo was pretty mediocre, the edited photos were remarkable.
Brian believes that this affirms his belief: Photography is 50% capture and 50% post processing. I do believe that post processing plays a part in photography today. But 50/50? I’m not so sure. 
There are several photographers that I know of who can produce great out-of-camera photographs. Personally, I try to do as little editing to my photos as possible too.
Head over to Brian’s blog and check out the results!
September 4th, 2007 by
Os If you’re like me, still learning photograph and getting used to your cameras, you’ll no doubt have quite a few images that makes you go “If only it wasn’t out of focus”.
Unsharp may be the last word (Is it even a word?) that comes to mind when you want to sharpen your out of focus images.
From Wikipedia:
The Unsharp name comes from the technique uses the blurred, or “unsharp”, positive to create a “mask” of the original image.
Come again? Unsharp Mask is actually a feature available in Adobe Photoshop CS and Adobe Photoshop Elements to help you sharpen images. Enough talk, let’s get to the actual usage of the Unsharp Mask tool in Photoshop. Here’s an out of focus photo:
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Have you ever wanted to remove the backgrounds in your photos to isolate just the subject? I know i’ve wanted to do that to make some nice wallpapers.Thembid.com has a good tutorial on remove backgrounds. It’s a really straightforward step-by-step tutorial with nice examples.
For GIMP users, here’s the same tutorial to remove backgrounds from the same people.
Head on over to have a look and let us know how it goes in the comments!
Source: ThemBid.com via Lifehacker
One of the best tip I’ve found so far is to straighten the horizons in my images. What does that mean? Have a look at the this image, taken from a recent trip to Hong Kong:
Notice anything wrong with it? (Other than the fact that its crappy)
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