Time for some Special Effects!

Let’s share some of our links for Special Effects with Photoshop.

http://www.onextrapixel.com/2010/08/23/34-photoshop-tutorials-that-will-leave-you-looking-like-a-pro/

27+ Latest Photoshop Tutorials for Photo Manipulation

Give me some feedback on what you think about these tutorials, or what you would like to try.

Day For Night

Here are the instructions for the Day for Night project:

For Step 1, use the Quick Select Brush (W), and use the Left Bracket key to make the brush smaller, the Right Bracket key to make brush bigger. Use the Option key (Mac)/Alt key (PC) to subtract front the selection, and then click or drag on anything else with the Quick Select Brush to add to the selection. Watch out for landscapes with a lot of trees!

For Step 2, after you Inverse the selection, use Cmd/Ctrl + J to copy your selected landscape to a new layer by itself. Turn off the Visability Icon (The Eye) on the Layers palette for the original layer, so you can see the transparent sky. After you have used the Hue/Saturation Adjustment, use the keystroke of Cmd + Shift + I to make a new layer. Drag it down below your image on the Layers palette, so that it isn’t the first layer in your layers palette.

Imaginative photographer lands world-tour job at Coke

Growing up, Canadian photographer Joel Robison, known on Flickr as Boy_Wonder, was always a bit of a daydreamer. Blame it on the movies he watched or the stories he read as a kid, but it caused him to look at everyday objects differently. It’s a creative direction that blended both fantasy and reality. And years later, it would lead him to a dream job in photography and become a Flickr icon!

http://blog.flickr.net/en/2014/01/17/imaginative-photographer-lands-world-tour-job-at-coke/

Here’s some links to his still photography images:

http://inspirationhut.net/inspiration/beautiful-and-surreal-photography-by-joel-robinson/

http://www.cuded.com/2012/05/wonderful-photography-by-joel-robison/

Here is a link that actually shows how Joel Robison created some of his collage/montage photos:

http://joelrobisonphoto.wordpress.com/category/tutorial/

Photographer Honored…

Flicker has a companion blog that features outstanding photographers. Check out this recent blog post which features photographer, Mimo Khair. Mimo Khair undoubtedly travels to some parts of the world that may put her in harms way, to connect us to other cultures, and enrich our lives. I invite you to watch the video through the link below, and comment on the questions below her picture.

http://blog.flickr.net/en/2014/09/05/moments-of-emotion-from-around-the-globe/

1.  Make a Comment on what you feel about her statement, and why you feel that way.

2. Tell me specifically what you would like to do with your photos, give me detailed goal.