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Photoshop tip – easy effect for more punch to your photos

April 9, 2012 Neil vN 7 Comments

Photoshop tip - easy effect for more punch to your photos

Here is a well-known Photoshop technique - one that I like and use on occasion. It desaturates the photograph, while also compressing the tonal range. It creates a modern look that also looks quite trendy. It is also quite easy to apply, by dragging the layers from a reference image once you've set it up. Starting with the original image, I add these two layers:  Read more inside...

Photoshop tips – making your images pop – soft-light layer

November 30, 2009 Neil vN 23 Comments

Photoshop tips - making your images pop - soft-light layer

As much as I am a firm believer in getting it as close as possible in camera, by using proper exposure and proper camera settings, and good light .. most often an image can be enhanced in Photoshop with a few simple techniques. There is an entire industry built around software and plug-ins and add-ons and action sets for Photoshop to enhance and manipulate images in Photoshop.  However, I'd first like to go over some of the simpler ones that you can use in Photoshop without additional software. These Photoshop  Read more inside...

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