Monday, July 14, 2008

Basic Workflow


Just wanted to share my workflow. It takes of all 2 min if that and it's not even cropped this is my in camera crop.

8 comments:

Cindy Shaver said...

Thanks for sharing. One question, what method do you use to adjust the color?

Short Stories by Ruth said...

Arya can you print it in the comments? I can't read your image. It is a fantastic image. I just love it!!!

Maureen said...

Thanks SO much, my post processing skills pretty much suck....how did you do the eyes...they're beautiful!

ps. did you learn PS by just doing it Arya, or did you have help?

Arya said...

Ruth here is what I did:
Please note everything is on it's own layer.
Screen layer, adjust color, burn & dodge, clone out background then sharpened.

Cindy I just go under IMAGE>ADJUSTMENTS>COLOR BALANCE
When the pallet pulls up I adjust the midtones colors, then I do the shadows and if the highlights need color adjustment then I do it but mostly I never do. I hope this helps.

Maureen I took a digital color photography class when I first got photoshop - it taught me some of the basic stuff like cropping, doing triptychs, cloning and such, but most everything I do now I learned from trial and error and reading forums like ILP, Shuttermom and Sweetspot and of course tutorials I come across during my google searches. It's taken me 2 years to get to this point and I am still learning.

Maureen said...

Not to bug you here Arya...but what is 'screen layer' and what are you burning and dodging?

Arya said...

Maureen: your not bothering me at all :)

You go under LAYER>DUPLICATE LAYER then go into the layers pallet and click on the drop down box and click on BLENDING OPTIONS a small box will appear. There is a drop down menu where it says BLEND MODE that is where you will click on SCREEN - thus creating the screen layer.

You can adjust this layers opacity by moving the sliders in the blending box. I hope this helps.

Arya said...

I burn the shadows of his eyes and dodge the highlights in his eyes - nothing too much just a quick sweep of his eye at low opacity.

Maureen said...

thank-you!