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1. Re: Photoshop darkroom photography techniques ...
c.pfaffenbichler Apr 20, 2013 7:51 AM (in response to AttilaHan)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.
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2. Re: Photoshop darkroom photography techniques ...
Bill Hunt Apr 20, 2013 9:17 AM (in response to AttilaHan)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
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3. Re: Photoshop darkroom photography techniques ...
AttilaHan Apr 20, 2013 1:46 PM (in response to Bill Hunt)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.
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4. Re: Photoshop darkroom photography techniques ...
Bill Hunt Apr 20, 2013 6:59 PM (in response to AttilaHan)OK, for the Orton Effect, look into HDR.
Hunt



