Photoshop CS5: Essential Skills

advanced retouching

essential skills

• Create a monochrome or black and white image from an RGB master.
• Manipulate tonality and split-tone an image.
• Enhance detail and depth to create a dramatic effect.
• Create an image with reduced depth of field.
• Create a ‘Faux’ style by manipulating focus and color.
• Use professional techniques to enhance the facial features of a portrait image.
• Create smooth tone and exaggerate midtone contrast to create a signature style.
• Merge bracketed exposures to create high dynamic range images.
• Create a time lapse video using an image sequence.

 

Black and white – Project1

When color film arrived over half a century ago ...