4 Replies Latest reply: Apr 20, 2013 6:59 PM by Bill Hunt RSS

    Photoshop darkroom photography techniques ...

    AttilaHan Community Member

      Hi to all ... I would like to ask which darkroom photography techniques you are using with photoshop ... indeed, not necessarily darkroom, which photograph processing techniques you think a photographer must know for better photographs. I would like to make a list of those main techniques every serious photographers must know. I have a few examples below ... thanks a lot for adding more techniques which you always use and you think every photographers must know.

       

      1. Dodge & burn

      2. Tonal adjustment

      3. Color correction

      4.

        • 1. Re: Photoshop darkroom photography techniques ...
          c.pfaffenbichler Community Member

          1. Dodge & burn

          I use the Dodge and Burn Tools practically only on Masks, destructively editing the image itself seems unwise when Adjustment Layers can achieve a similar result.

           

          You should familiarize yourself with non destructive image editing techniques (Smart Objects, Smart Filters, Adjustment Layers etc.) if you have not already.

           

          Edit: But I omitted to mention that I do not work as a photographer myself but in image editing and pre-press.

          • 2. Re: Photoshop darkroom photography techniques ...
            Bill Hunt CommunityMVP

            Not from the "darkroom" per se (unless one worked in a lab that did analog image assembly), but the biggies for me would be:

             

            Layers

            Layer Masks

            Adjustment Layers (mentioned above)

            Channels

            Curves

            Levels

            Selections

            Paths

             

            Then, the Clone Stamp and Healing Tools

             

            I also believe that if one can do the work in a non-destructive way, that would almost always be the ideal. Just Save_As a PSD, with all Layers intact, not Flattened.

             

            I could not function without those.

             

            Good luck,

             

            Hunt

            • 3. Re: Photoshop darkroom photography techniques ...
              AttilaHan Community Member

              Thanks a lot for great advises ...

               

              But, I didn't mean tools or panels that we can use when we're processing our photos.

              I mean the complete techniques known as photography classics, bot in analog era and also in digital era.

               

              For example, maybe "inverted high pass" from digital times ... it can be great and easy method for smooth tonal transitions.

              Another example from analog times can be "Orton effect".

               

              I mean such complete techniques ...

               

              Thanks a lot.

              • 4. Re: Photoshop darkroom photography techniques ...
                Bill Hunt CommunityMVP

                OK, for the Orton Effect, look into HDR.

                 

                Hunt