The Making of "Eyes of Love"

I selected our image post today to be part of our Technique Tuesday segment mostly because the original did not look much like the final resulting image. But, I really love the finished portrait. Give the short video a look for the whole story and techniques used. Enjoy! --David


http://digitalprotalk.blogspot.com/2007/11/making-of-eyes-of-love.html

The Burn and Dodge Photoshop Cha-Cha

Thank you to ColleenP who commented on my recent post "The Burn and Dodge Photoshop Cha-Cha." This post was actually part of last month's newsletter. In the tutorial, I discussed three ways to burn and dodge - the tutorial was actually less boring than it sounds. Anyway, Colleen has enlightened me with an even quicker way than my techniques.
Here is her suggestion - A quicker way to do method 3 is hold the Alt key and click new layer in the layers palette, which brings up the dialog box, change mode to soft light and check the box to fill with 50% gray. Hit the above link to see the tutorial, and give Collen's suggestion a try. Thanks, Coleen for the tip

http://digitalprotalk.blogspot.com/2007/10/burn-dodge-cha-cha.html

http://www.colleenphoto.blogspot.com/

Cabo Colors #5

Alright, gang, you asked for it. Readers seemed to enjoy "Cabo Colors #5", yesterday's daily post image. I had a request for the "before" image. I'll do better than that - here is a quick tutorial that covers the basic steps and most of the tweaking. (This is sort of a mini Technique Tuesday) Enjoy! --David

http://digitalprotalk.blogspot.com/2007/11/quick-before-and-after-cabo-colors-5.html

FACE MAKEOVER

You have to check out this tutorial over at Photoshop Gurus site. This tutorial takes facial retouching to an extreme level. The result is almost beyond the Hollywood "Before - After" images we have seen in the past. You might think "over retouched" but, check it out, some great techniques demonstrated. Here is the

http://www.photoshopgurus.com/tutorials/t027.html