I reckon that the way you can tell a professional photographer from an enthusiast is the way they organise their batteries. (Ok I kid). But I did get an email from a photographer a few weeks ago that turned into a conversation about batteries. How do you organise them so that whilst on a assignment you know which are needing recharged? and which are fully charged?
I just wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas from myself, Gillian, Greg and of course our resident model Jool’s. Thanks for visiting us on Christmas day. I hope you are having or maybe have had a great Christmas dinner. I am probably watching Doctor Who right now or playing with all the presents, Santa brought Jools. Enjoy your day.
In this screencast I show you how to create image borders with layers, masks and filters for the effect. This is a bit of long one, so get the popcorn out and I am really sorry its not in 3D… 
Avatar’s a cool movie isn’t it? Anyway I digress, I show you 2 ways to work with a border and these are a little different to my usual border and edges that I do for the foto edge fx.
This week we are going back to the Creative Color Lab for our recipe and this one is good for bronze statues or anything metallic.
I thought saying as we are heading towards the holiday season I thought it was time to do some techniques that you can have a play with whilst enjoying the Christmas break. Today I am going to show you how to create a floating border effect that is both non-destructive and very flexible to use with your photos.
This is a little workflow recipe for all the wedding photographers out there. Ever wanted to make your brides dress that little bit more whiter, crisper, and more virg…. OK, you get the idea. Well its easy and I will show the action just for the job.
(UPDATE: The screencast has been re-recorded and extended.) Adobe Photoshop CS4 has so many tools that a lot of them get tucked away and forgotten. The Paint Bucket is one such tool and it now resides inside the button for the Gradient Tool. So the point of this screencast was to resurrect the poor old paint bucket and give it a bit of a new lease of life by combining it with a few of my favourite techniques.
One set of actions that did not get a make-over recently was the Digital Watermark Actions Kit. Why, I hear you cry? Well its like this. You all have so many different digital cameras with different megapixels sizes, that its hard to keep up. So the easiest thing to do, is to teach you how to create your own digital watermark or copyright stamp…
Now that’s what I call a wedding car, lol. Ok, so we have the flames of the desire going down the side. How can you quickly enhance the orange whilst leaving the soft sepia that has been mixed through the image intact?
In this screencast I will show you how to create a brush in Photoshop that has a unique tribal art design. Its a simple technique that will give you the ability to create a really cool look set of brushes for yourself. Plus to get you started you can download the three brushes I created for the video.
Stuart Little is a Professional Photographer and Photoshop Trainer with over 18 years experience in the field. The Little Photoshop is home to Stuart's articles, screencasts, training dvds, actions and inspiration based around the topics of Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, Digital Photography and Off Camera Lighting. Learn more...