Digital Camera - Ken Gilbert

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PhotoshopSchool
GET THE LOOK
BEFORE
WHAT YOU’LL NEED
Photoshop Elements 8or
Photoshop CS, or above
WHATYOU’LL LEARN
Howtouse AdjustmentLayers
and the Shadows/Highlights tool
to give portraits a modern finish
IT ONLY TAKES 10 minutes
ON YOUR
DISC
DigitalCamera July2010
AFTER
STEP BY STEP
Give portraitsa
modern makeover
Ben Brain shows you how to skew contrast,
subdue colours and enhance detail to cool effect
Photographic styles and digital darkroom
effects certainly aren’t immune to the
whims of fashion and changing tastes.
Whether it’s trendy cross-processing,
HDR (High Dynamic Range) tweaks or
shooting contre-jour (intothe light), flick through
the editorial and ad pages of any glossy magazine
and you’ll see what’s currently in vogue.
The muted colours, exaggerated contrastand
super-detailed characteristics of what is known
as the bleach bypass effect areverypopular at the
moment. Not only can we see the treatment in
manyoftoday’smagazines–think grumpy, gnarly
chefs – it’s also been used in big-budget, blockbusting
films such as Saving Private Ryan.
The effect originatesfromatraditional darkroom
process but, likemanycool phototreatments, it’s
now much easier and less messy to replicate using
image-editing software such as Photoshop
Elements or Photoshop CS. You simply use a
combination of Adjustment Layers,layer Blending
Modes and the Shadows/Highlights tool.
Here, we’ll showyou howeasyitistoget the
look, so you can transform portraits of your own.
Ben Brain (Future)