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Tutorial : How To Lose Your Head!
On June 11, 2008 in Co-Writer, Photography, Tutorials
In this tutorial, I will teach you how to lose your head – the safe way! As usual, I will start off with the basics, and then suggest how you could carry on from there. Let’s get started.
Setting up for this photo manipulation is quite similar to the previous (and now rather famous!) cloning tutorial, in which you need a camera (obviously), a tripod (or just a steady place to put your camera) and 2 photographs of the same scene, one with your model (or yourself) in it, and one without.
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Tutorial : How To Do A Precise Selection!
On March 10, 2008 in Co-Writer, Photography, Tutorials
Apologies to those who have been waiting for my new tutorial which never seemed to be published. I know, and am deeply honoured, that there are many who look forward to it, and I humbly thank them, and you, for all the support that all of you have given me.
That said, let’s get on with today’s tutorial! 
This time around, I will show you how to do a precise selection in Photoshop, and then some of the cool things that you can achieve, once you’ve mastered it. Precise selection? That isn’t very descriptive, is it? Doesn’t sound cool, but here are 2 teaser images to encourage you to read on. 
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Tutorial : Using flash to make your photos stand out!
On December 29, 2007 in Co-Writer, Photography, Tutorials, Weird
I’m sorry I can’t post up an in-depth tutorial to mark the year’s end. I’ve been pretty busy with stuff and making these tutorials really take more time than I care to admit! Heh.
Here’s a short filler one, regarding flash, to allow you to get your tutorial fix while I work on the lengthy new one coming up next month.
Light is the most crucial part of a good photo. Not the camera, not the photographer, but light. And natural lighting is definitely the best way to go, but if you lack natural lighting, then you can use flash to compensate. I know, I know… Using flash produces such artificial looking photos, right? Well, not if you use flash right! Fill-flash, especially, can be used to make your pictures pop up even more.
Here I will illustrate how using flash can make or break a photograph in this short tutorial.
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Tutorial : How to get perfect skin!
On November 20, 2007 in Co-Writer, Photography, Tutorials
Have you ever wished you could have perfect skin? Have you ever wished you could get rid of all the acne and pimples and blemishes and scars on your face? Now you can!
Well, at least in your photographs.
Do you have a near-perfect portrait of yourself, that is embellished by a pimple? Don’t you just hate when that happens? In this tutorial, I will show you how to get rid of all the unflattering marks on your face using Adobe Photoshop mostly by just using two tools. Yes, just two! You will be surprised at how easy it is to do it! So, let’s get started.
Step 1:
I’ll be using this photograph below as an example. You, you can dig up a photograph of yourself to try. Come on now, don’t be shy. Bring the photograph in to Photoshop, preferably using the biggest resolution version of that photograph that you have.
At this point, I would colour-correct the photograph first before continuing with the editing. Not sure how to? Feel free to read my tutorial on how to colour-correct your photos first. Don’t worry, we’ll wait.
Step 2:
Here’s the magic tool that you’ve been waiting for : Healing Brush Tool.
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