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In this first episode of Hands-on Photo Tips, I am explaining how you can save time and effort in Photoshop by combining layer masks. If you are applying selective adjustments to your images, you may end up with a number of layers, each with their own mask. Sometimes, combining existing masks into a new one [...]
This video shows the post-processing work all the way through to the finishing touches. Each major step is indicated by a subtitle.
View the final result and read more information on the post-processing work here: The Ingress (HDR Vertorama)
Clarity, sharpness, and crispness are three terms that are frequently used to express the properties of a good photo. While there is probably no rigorous definition for these terms (except for sharpness, maybe) we all know what they mean, and we all strive to give these properties to our images. But [...]
For most images, you will need to apply different adjustments to different parts of the image. For example, you may want to increase the saturation of the blue tones on the sky, the yellows and greens on the forest, and the saturation of the red tones on a building’s roof. Making [...]
The HDR process can lead to uneven luminance in areas of the image that are really supposed to have a very even look. The most prominent example of this is the sky: If you have blue sky with an occasional cloud in it, and if you used some more aggressive tonemapping settings, the [...]
One of the biggest problems in the HDR process today are halos. Halos are most obvious on high-contrast edges where a darker area and a lighter area meet each other. You mostly see them where the sky meets buildings, trees, rocks etc. There are ways of avoiding halos by applying only moderate tone [...]
HDR processing is renowned for producing a lot of noise due to the amplification of the local contrast. Therefore, noise reduction is a vital step in your post-processing work. There are different philosophies as to whether noise reduction should be applied at the very start or at the very end of the whole [...]
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