In this tutorial I will be walking you through how I created my digital piece, “What weather do you want?”. This is a photo manipulation tutorial that combines some adjustment layers, filter effects, and some simple pen/lasso tool work.
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In this tutorial I will be walking you through how I created my digital piece, “Mother Nature”. This is a simple photo manipulation of a few stock photographs and some brush work.
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After posting some of Emily’s photos, I was getting a lot of people asking me how I processed the photos. Although, not every one of her photos was processed like I will be explaining below. I will help illustrate how I did two of my favorite images from her session. I like to process a lot of my photos with a vintage/retro/old poloraid feel to them. I enjoy that style, and I feel it helps convey certain moods in photographs. Her images came out fine SOOC (straight out of camera), but the mood created by the final post-processing makes the image more engaging. Not every photo will come out like the end result in this tutorial. A lot of factors depend on how the end result will look. For example how well the original image was strobed, your scene, and original tones in the image.
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