The Art of Rendering: How to Add Realistic Textures to Your Architectural Visualizations in Photoshop Alex Hogrefe is the creator of Visualizing Architecture, a blog dedicated to educating people in the art of architectural visualization. He is also part of rendering studio Design Distill, generating unique and compelling illustrations for architects around the world. A thought that often runs through my head when working on architectural illustrations is: How can I bring more of a human touch to the image? I have spent the last week illustrating an aerial perspective for my latest personal project. Add To Collection Save this image to a collection View Similar Images Base Rendering Texturing in the 3D environment is important, but it can be difficult to avoid “tiling” of textures. At a certain point, time spent texturing in the 3D environment could be done much faster in Photoshop. Texture Zones For this illustration, there were four areas that I focused on: the roofs of the surrounding context, the textures of my design, the streets and the sidewalks/landscape. Choosing Textures Before …
Ultimate Cheat Sheets for Photoshop and Lightroom Want an ultimate single-page cheat sheet for looking up keyboard shortcuts in Photoshop CC and Lightroom CC? The design team over at setupablogtoday have created just that: massive sheets that you can study and explore to your hearts content. The Photoshop Cheat Sheet First up is an impressive Photoshop cheat sheet that displays shortcuts both on a 2D keyboard and in chart form: You can find a high-resolution version of the image online here, or you can download a PDF of it through this link or via this embed: The Lightroom Cheat Sheet If you thought that Photoshop one was impressive, check out the ridiculously comprehensive cheat sheet they made for Lightroom: You can view it online here, or download the PDF here or through this embed: Finally, if you’re interested, there’s also a single infographic that serves as a one-stop cheat sheet for all of the major Creative Cloud apps. (via Digital Photo Buzz via Reddit)
How To Use Blend Modes With Color Channels In Photoshop Written by Steve Patterson. In this tutorial, we'll look at how to enhance the contrast and color of an image in unique and creative ways by learning how to apply blend modes to a photo's individual color channels. If you've been using Photoshop for a while, you know that we usually select blend modes from the Layers panel because they're most often used to change how a layer interacts, or blends, with the layer(s) below it. Here, we'll learn how we can take things even further by applying those same blend modes not to an entire layer but to the individual RGB (Red, Green and Blue) color channels that Photoshop uses to create our full color image. How do we apply blend modes to color channels? As we'll see, it's actually very simple and easy thanks to Photoshop's Apply Image command. Working with color channels in Photoshop is a bit of an advanced topic. I'll be using Photoshop CS6 for this tutorial but any recent version of Photoshop will do. The original photo. The Apply Image Command
Here's a Trick for Adjusting Past +/- 100 in Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw In this post, I’ll share a trick I use to get some adjustments “beyond” +100 or -100 in Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw. In the screenshot above, I like how most of the image looks — the bird and the branches are well exposed, at least. But the blue sky got blown out to almost pure white. Right click on the minus icon to the left of the highlights slider. Now I apply the filter by clicking very close to the bottom right corner, and then dragging the gradient diagonally off the bottom right corner of the image. So now you should see the highlights drop a bit more than before. The sky is a realistic blue again! You can do this same trick to stack up almost anything past 100… clarity, sharpness, shadows, noise reduction, etc. About the author: Matthew Lala is a photographer who enjoys making images of nature and wildlife.
GC2 Photo Club | The Photographers Knowledgebase Adobe Lightroom tutorial: 6 fundamental Develop module edits for your raw files Adobe Lightroom has quietly become one of the best photo editing software options for photographers thanks to its easy-to-use interface and extensive range of tools and controls. In this Adobe Lightroom tutorial we show you how to use Lightroom’s Develop module for perfect edits. Lightroom is far more than just an image organiser. These tools enable you make a range of useful edits – from basic tonal tweaks to more creative effects. Whether you want to make basic exposure tweaks, correct lens distortion, crop in tighter or remove spots, the Develop Module is the place to begin. And because Lightroom allows you to make these changes non-destructively to raw files, you can work on your images while retaining the highest possible quality. In this tutorial we’ll start by making a few fundamental tweaks to exposure and tone in the Basic Panel, which is the best place to begin editing your raw files. 6 fundamental edits for raw files in the Adobe Lightroom Develop module
How to copyright photos in Lightroom: protect your images in 6 easy steps In this Adobe Lightroom tutorial we’ll show you step-by-step how to copyright photos by adding your contact details to every photo’s metadata. It’s common practice to share your digital photos as electronic copies. You might do this by emailing them to clients, posting them on your Facebook page or presenting them in an online gallery. Once you’ve shared a photo you can’t control where it ends up, because it’s easy for others to make an electronic copy. This can lead to scenarios where your work is shared and/or published without you being credited or paid for it. As the creator of the image, you own the copyright to it, so others must seek your permission if they want to use it. When your camera processes an image to render its colours and tones, it also includes information about the camera settings used to capture the photo, such as the shutter speed and aperture setting. This metadata is stored with the image file, so where the image goes, the metadata goes too. How to copyright photos
The Ultimate Guide to Workflow in Lightroom and Photoshop Importing Images Into Lightroom The first step in your workflow will be getting your images from your memory card onto your computer. We prefer to use Lightroom for importing as well as file naming and structure. We choose to have Lightroom organize everything by date and convert to DNG when importing RAW files. DNG files take up less space on your hard drive and allow cleaner long term storage. File Structure and Naming After importing your files onto your computer or portable hard drive (we use a Promise Pegasus R4), it is time to get everything organized. After naming your main folder it is time to bring each of the images from the shoot together and create sub-folders for organization. The Capture folder is where all of the RAW images from the shoot are placed. The Selects folder is where your selects will go, usually exported as TIFs. The Master folder is where your layered PSD or TIF files will go. The Output folder is where images are placed after editing is complete.
Shortcut for Keyboard shortcuts Posted By Pete Collins on Thursday, July 23, 2015 in Featured, Lightroom Tips | 0 comments If you are like me, you love keyboard shortcuts but often forget that cool one that you only use every now and then. The good news is that you can press Command -/ (slash) or (PC Ctrl -/) to bring up all of the keyboard shortcuts for that module. Now if you can just remember that one shortcut you are all set.
50+ Best Lightroom Presets 2015 All Free Adobe Lightroom Today we are presenting Lightroom Presets. These are great collections available absolutely for free and you can use them to edit your images quickly and successfully. As you look at each one of them, you should feel free to share with us of any other free Lightroom Presets that you find impressive using our comment section. This list contains free and paid Adobe Lightroom 4/5/6 presets (Only the first three presets in this list are premium Lightroom workflow bundles). (Editor’s Top Choice) Sleeklens Complete Lightroom Collection 1600+ Lightroom Presets & 300 Lightroom brushes If you are planning to buy Lightroom presets or Lightroom brushes, this bundle would be an awesome choice. Lightroom presets are a combination of effects, settings and edits which are saved allowing you to edit your images and photographs in a way that changes their appearance and effects. All the workflows are all compatible with either Lightroom 4,5 or 6 + CC Check it out #Strike a Pose Lightroom Workflow 1. 2. 3.
30 Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Tips and Tutorials Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is an awesome tool for photographers, professionals and amateurs alike. One of the biggest benefits to using Lightroom is its ability to help you to organize and manage your photos effectively. If you photograph frequently, you’ll find that your hard drive quickly includes thousands of photos. The more photos you have, the more important it is to keep them well organized. Lightroom’s library module allows you to organize your photos so you can find them quickly when you are looking for something specific. In addition to its organizational capabilities, Lightroom offers plenty of potential for editing photos in the develop module. If you already have a Creative Cloud membership with Adobe, which many designers do, you have access to Lightroom. In this post, we’ll showcase 33 Adobe Lightroom tutorials and articles from a variety of different sources that will help you to learn more about Lightroom. Essential Shortcuts for Lightroom’s Develop Module
Guide to Image Sharpening Image sharpening is a powerful tool for emphasizing texture and drawing viewer focus. It's also required of any digital photo at some point — whether you're aware it's been applied or not. Digital camera sensors and lenses always blur an image to some degree, for example, and this requires correction. However, not all sharpening techniques are created equal. When performed too aggressively, unsightly sharpening artifacts may appear. On the other hand, when done correctly, sharpening can often improve apparent image quality even more so than upgrading to a high-end camera lens. sharp cacti at the Huntington Gardens - Pasadena, California Most image sharpening software tools work by applying something called an "unsharp mask," which despite its name, actually acts to sharpen an image. Photo of the letter "T" Original Sharpened Soft Original Mild Sharpening Over Sharpening note: all images shown at 200% zoom to improve visibility Capture Sharpening Creative Sharpening Output Sharpening Original Image
How to Watermark Your Images Using Lightroom and Photoshop CC Watermarks, love them or hate them, are a way of protecting your images. Although, just because you have one on your image doesn’t mean it won’t be stolen. If you are like me, I do it as a deterrent. There are many ways to watermark your images. Lightroom (6) CC Lightroom makes watermarking your images very easy, there are a couple of ways of doing it. Exporting Your Images Select the images you want to export and watermark. The Export Window will come up. If it hasn’t been ticked, then check the box for Watermark. Simple Watermark If you’ve never watermarked anything before, then you could simply click on Simple Copyright Watermark and it will just put your name on the photos. Another option under that drop down menu is Edit Watermarks, so let’s go through that option. Edit Watermarks In this section you can edit the text for the water, or what you want it to look like. There are various sliders in the Watermark editor as well, one allows you to change the opacity of the watermark.
Improve Your Images with the Lightroom Graduated Filter Tool The Lightroom Graduated Filter is a versatile tool for making local adjustments to your photos. Don’t be fooled by the name – it may be named after a type of filter used for making skies darker in landscape photography, but its uses go far beyond that. Before we look at how you can use the Graduated Filter tool to improve your images, you may want to think about the style in which you’d like to process the photo. What is your ultimate aim? My article Finding and Achieving Your Style in Lightroom will give you some advice on figuring that out. How to use Graduated Filters This is how you apply a Graduated Filter in Lightroom 1. 2. 3. Here, I set Exposure to -4.0 to show you the difference between the two types of Graduated Filter: This illustration shows the difference between creating a wide Graduated Filter (left) and a narrow one (right). Now you know how to use the Graduated Filter tool, here a few ways you can make your photos better with it. 1. Starting image 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.