Photoshop techniques

Well a lot has happened since February. I have now done a 1st Holy Communion and a Christening. I have my 1st Wedding planned for the start of August (very exciting) with a pre-wedding shoot this Saturday.

Well I have been playing with Photoshop and here's some example of what I have been able to do.

This is a simple black and white cropped conversion on a picture. I rotated it 2 degrees clock wise to straighten the frame across the bottom. This picture was taken in a mirror.

This picture was rotated slightly to make the pews straight. I turned it black and white and faded out the edges of the picture.

In this picture I used two layers and a mask to blur most of the photo and keep the features on the girl's face and hair sharp. This was then converted to B&W, I believe it looks better than the colour version.

Following the previous example I used the same technique only I converted to sketch instead of the blur effect. I then used a layer mask to bring out this gent so he doesn't look like a sketch and stands out from the rest of the picture.

Quite excited about the new things I am learning about Photoshop and looking forward to the wedding in a few weeks and creating promotional material for Going Wild Photography. I am also looking forward to creating the Wedding album for my portfolio.

Keep checking back to see how everything goes.