Want to offer your clients more to chose from? Here's how: award winning photographer, Christopher Grey, has developed techniques to enhance portrait photography, using the creative applications available in Photoshop. Photoshop Effects for Portrait Photographers contains detailed explanations of how to replicate many darkroom techniques with Photoshop (Dodging, Burning, Vignettes, etc.) as well as camera and earlier technology techniques (Short Focus, High Speed Film Grain, Hand Coloring, etc.). Grey has also developed almost two dozen ways to replicate traditional painterly and illustrative techniques such as Rough Charcoal Sketch, Wet Watercolor, Silkscreen, and Oil Chalk. Images available for downloading at http://www.ChristopherGrey.com/booksamples. Key Features * Each effect is covered in a 2-4 page full color spread for easy comprehension and step-by-step directions * Effects built with Photoshop CS2, but almost all will work with any version of PS that supports Layers * Takes some of Photoshop features that are not quite up to par and gives you the tips to take the effect to the next level
Author(s): Christopher Grey
Publisher: Focal Press
Year: 2006
Language: English
Commentary: 74932
Pages: 147
Front Cover......Page 1
Photoshop Effects for Portrait Photographers......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Foreword......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 12
A Short Course in Layer Masks......Page 14
Section 1: Traditional Photographic Techniques......Page 20
Creative Desaturation......Page 21
Organic Vignettes......Page 26
Converting Color to Grayscale......Page 32
Short Focus......Page 37
Short Focus (Light)......Page 40
Black and White Infrared......Page 42
Cross-Processing......Page 46
High-Speed Film Grain......Page 51
Oil Tint......Page 54
Hand Coloring Black and White......Page 60
Damage Free Dodge and Burn......Page 64
Section 2: Image Enhancements......Page 68
Surreal Backgrounds......Page 69
HyperColor......Page 72
Glowing Accents......Page 74
Porcelain Skin......Page 77
High Pass Sharpening......Page 80
High Pass Soft Focus......Page 82
Overexposure Rescue......Page 84
Hollywood Eyes......Page 86
Section 3: Artistic Effects......Page 90
Perfect Litho......Page 91
Linoleum Block......Page 95
Scratchboard......Page 98
Rough Pencil Sketch......Page 103
Charcoal/Pen Sketch......Page 105
Photocopy Sketch......Page 108
Grain Sketch......Page 111
Watercolor Painting......Page 116
Wet Watercolor......Page 121
Silkscreen Prints......Page 125
Impressionism......Page 131
The Classic PinUp......Page 138
Oil Chalk......Page 143
I......Page 146
W......Page 147
