Reuters: Use of Photoshop

As a consequence of a recent fracas involving manipulation of images of the Lebanon-Israel conflict last summer by a photographer associated with Reuters, its Editor-in-Chief recently posted rules governing the use of Photoshop to its photographers/photojournalists. These have raised a debate within the photojournalism industry as to what is digital manipulation...is it any different from the traditional darkroom techniques used by film photographers? Is it relevant to travel photographers? I think so, but you decide.

I agree wholeheartedly with these rules. My use of Photoshop is limited to the very basics. For example, I seldom crop my images in Photoshop, but I used selective sharpening on a few of my images, as well as auto levels. However, I do not use anything other than minor color correction and sharpening when submitting my photographs to buyers. Why? Because it's unethical and digital manipulation is always found out by a professional editor.

Here are the rules summary:

ALLOWED:

• Cropping
• Adjustment of Levels to histogram limits
• Minor colour correction
• Sharpening at 300%, 0.3, 0
• Careful use of lasso tool
• Subtle use of burn tool
• Adjustment of highlights and shadows
• Eye dropper to check/set gray

NOT ALLOWED:

• Additions or deletions to image
• Cloning & Healing tool (except dust)
• Airbrush, brush, paint
• Selective area sharpening
• Excessive lightening/darkening
• Excessive colour tone change
• Auto levels
• Blurring
• Eraser tool
• Quick Mask
• In-camera sharpening
• In-camera saturation styles

Adobe's Photoshop Lightroom

Adobe has announced that Photoshop Lightroom 1.0 for Mac and Windows will ship on February 19, 2007 at an introductory price of US$199. The company's pro photo management and RAW conversion software, has evolved through a public beta process that resulted in over 500,000 photographers downloading the work-in-progress application. Adobe Lightroom

Descargas de la plantilla Photoshop del manual Diseño desde cero

Diversos archivos para descarga que serán de utilidad para seguir el vídeo del diseño web desde cero con Photoshop y el manual de maquetación CSS 960 Grid System.

Debido a la solicitud de diversos usuarios y visitantes del material original de Photoshop que estamos utilizando en el manual de maquetación CSS con 960 Grid System, publicamos una descarga que seguro resultará interesante y útil para las personas.
En el manual mencionado, sobre la maquetación web con CSS y uno de los más conocidos frameworks CSS, vimos un ejemplo práctico de maquetación de una página web en un caso real, es decir, cómo tenemos que realizar paso por paso la creación de una web con HTML y CSS a partir de un modelo o plantilla creado con Photoshop.

Por recordar un poco todas las cosas y para los que lleguen de entrada a este artículo sin conocer el material al que hacemos referencia, vamos a poner los link a diversos artículos y vídeos que hemos ido realizando los pasados meses:


Vídeo explicado del diseño de una web desde cero
Caso real de maquetación web con CSS y 960 Grid System
Parte dos de la maquetación web, caso real
Tercera y última parte de la maquetación CSS
Si os fijáis, todos estos materiales están preparados en vídeo, con lo que son un material ideal para aprender y además con la facilidad que da ver tú mismo cómo se han ido realizando las cosas.

Con el paquete de descarga que ofrecemos ahora, ponemos a vuestra disposición los requeridos "materiales fuente" para llevar paso a paso este trabajo de maquetación:


Plantilla original, o archivo PSD con el diseño creado
Archivos gráficos utilizados en el diseño, como iconos
Las páginas resultantes, maquetadas con HTML y CSS y sus distintas imágenes de trozos del diseño para colocar en las webs, extraídas del PSD.

En definitiva, un paquete que seguro resultará de interés para todas las personas que siguen el manual de Maquetación CSS con 96 Grid System.

La descarga está disponible para los usuarios de DesarrolloWeb.com:

Materiales para la maquetación web CSS

Amazing Retouching And Photo Enhancing Tutorials In Photoshop

As graphic designer retouching photographies is essential skill You need to master. You could talk about principles, but at least I started with simple photo editing on Photoshop, trying to take off red eyes, lumps and change backgrounds of pictures I was using. In this You’ll find everything You need – facial and portrait, teeth, lips, eye retouching, background remove as well as simple color adjustments in video and image-based tutorials. In fact for color adjustments I would suggest You look for some premade actions available on deviantart, very handy if You’re just starting out. This list is not so big because it is carefully picked, I am starting to think it’s better to get quality than quantity. Enjoy!

1. Facial And Portrait Retouching

Professional Photographic Retouching Tutorial (40Mins, Start-To-Finish)
This is the second tutorial in a series on photographic retouching. The first part was all about evening skin tonal values and removing blemishes. In this part I will take you through everything else. So, as a result it’s a long video (40 Mins).



High Quality Portrait Retouching Part 1
Tutorial will try to demonstrate the level of editing that goes into removing any discrepancies in the skin.




Glamour Model Complete Retouching
In thiis lesson we’ll see how to retouch a face’s photo and make from a simple picture a very original one






Super Fast and Easy Facial Retouching

In this tutorial, I will show you how to repair some image noise from a low-quality shot, and I will show you an extremely quick and easy way to smooth out a person’s face. The woman in this shot is not a model, and she has a lot of character so we don’t want to overdo it with the smoothing. We will make it look real and natural.



Portrait Retouching
This tutorial will cover retouch this girls portraits by enhancing the skin, eyes and lips.






Make Skin Smooth and Beautiful in Photoshop
This tutorial is great for retouching portraits of people who have acne, wrinkles, and other blemishes that you want to smooth out or remove. Once you’ve completed these steps, you’ll be able to use Photoshop to make any portrait subject appear years younger and healthier.



Airbrushing, doing professional make up digitally


2. Teeth
How to Whiten Teeth
Excellent video tutorial showing easy and fast way how to whiten Your teeth in subtle way.


Whiten Your teeth and eyes
Whenever the need arises to make a natural element white or whiter, it’s tempting to set the foreground color to white and reach for the airbrush. This works if applied with care, but it’s easier to achieve a more realistic effect using other Photoshop tools. Here, a small amount of whitening applied to the model’s teeth and eyes will lift the whole image.



3. Eyes
Enchancing Iris color
It is said that the eyes are windows into the soul. In that case some of us must have really boring souls, but help is at hand if you want to your eyes to really stand out in photographs and creative photo manipulations. This tutorial details a simple yet powerful technique for altering eye color using basic Photoshop tools and a decent image of an eye.



Eye enhancing technique
Learn how to make eyes more beautiful in Photoshop in few simple steps.






Eyescapes resources
I stumbled across this great eye scape page, if You want to efficiency change Your eye color, these eye scapes are the best way to do it in very natural way. ( although it’s Photoshop).



4. Color Adjustments
Quick Tip: Color Correction in Photoshop with the Curves Adjustment Tool
Curves Adjustment tool not only helps in creating desired contrast, but at the same time it allows to color correct images. This tutorial will teach you how to use this tool to color correct photos efficiently.



Non-Destructive Photo Editing with Adjustment Layers in Photoshop
This is not so much about retouching as how to edit photos in non-destructive way so You can later go back and play with settings and compare results.



5. Lips
Lips Gloss
This tutorial demonstrates how to use digital painting with a drawing tablet to create the illusion of lip gloss on bare lips. Use this technique frequently for retouching, it’s a great digital painting exercise too!

Create a Front page Magazine Image

Learn how to change a photo to a front page magazine image in Photoshop. Give your photographs a beautiful sheen or glazed effect!

To give a Front page magazine image effect:

Follow the following steps:

1. Open a new file by clicking on File>Open.
2.Open a photo by clicking on File>Open.
3.Drag the photo to your new file canvas. Adjust the size of your photo to your canvas size. Click on CTRL+T to get Transform Tool. Adjust the size of the photo. Click Ok. Your photo is ready to work on.
4.Go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur. Click on ok.

5.A screen named Gaussian Blur will appear. Click 7 pixels on Radius. Click OK.
6.Press Ctrl+shift+F to get Fade Option.

7.A screen named Fade will appear. Change from Mode Normal to Mode to Screen.
8.Again go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur. Click on ok .
9.Click 8 pixels on Radius. Click Ok.
10.Press Ctrl+shift+F to get Fade Option.
11.A screen named Fade will appear. Change from Mode Normal to Mode to Soft Light.