PHOTOSodes PHOTOShop Episode 7!
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This week we bring you something a little bit different! We teach you a little bit about the flip side of photography: the editing! Of course we all wish that a perfect photo comes out of every click of the camera, but rarely does that happen. A lot of times there’s a little underexposure, or overexposure, or burned out highlights, or incorrect white balance, and the list goes on. Most of theses problems can be edited and improved in Photoshop, and other photo-editing programs. Without a doubt the majority of all published photographs have some sort of photo correction/manipulation/touching-up. Sometimes even too much. We believe the approach to editing should be tasteful and subtle. Never should photoshop be overdone. Too much of it could create something that looks tacky, ugly, or completely useless.
In this episode we mention a few of the popular photoshop actions that are available such as Kevin Kubota’s Image Tools, and Totally Rad Actions. With those actions and other ones similar to those, you can create really cool effects with a simple click. It’s really good if you are editing more than a few photos, and also if you’re just lazy. Check out their websites if you want to see more amazing before/after photos.
Kevin Kubota Image Tools Sample taken from this page
Totally Rad Actions Sample taken from this page
For those who can’t afford photoshop, there’s always Adobe Lightroom, which is arguably equal in power and usefulness. Photoshop is really good at fine tuning one single photo, but Lightroom works wonders when making changes with more than one photo. Lightroom is efficient, fast, and versatile. Now with version 3 out, batch processing is easier than ever.
In the second half of this episode we take photos of ourselves and demonstrate how to enhance them in photoshop. These photos below are straight out of the camera, and we photoshop them and narrate what we do to make these photos better. (Not that we need any photoshopping since, you know, we’re so handsome and all.)
erich chen
Nathan Nowack
The portrait of Eric Chen is so great. Classical shot. Congrats! What kinda softbox did you use?
Thanks! We actually used all natural light outside. The giant softbox is actually June Gloom here in LA, which is the giant cloudy weather we get in June.
Sooooo coool!
Thats funny. But actually the ambient light is the best and quite a cheap. Thanks!
I feel the video this time was a little lacking, I think for a better photoshop vid, you should actually go deeper into explaining cloning, healing, dodging/burning, liquify/warp and all around wb/color adjustments. Perhaps recording one of you actually working on a photo would be nice too. The video was funny as hell though with the both of you making cracks at each other! I still enjoyed it.
Hey thanks for the constructive-criticism-esque comment.
We admit that the episode was less informative, but partly its because we didnt want to bore people, sometimes straight information gets boring. We’re constantly trying to improve our show by balancing the amount of content/comedy and and also put enough substance so that it fits within 15 minutes. Thank you again for watching our show.