Photoshop Tutorial For beginners

Note some "banding" in the sky of the image used may appear . This is due to video compression only
(thank you GOLDY member of my forum - for providing the image )

Here's a simple fix for under exposed images. So easy anyone can do it!
Yet it provides FANTASTIC results every time and without fail!

http://microstockpix.com/tuts/screen/screen.html

I would like to hear from you if you would have done something different

In this tutorial I taken an image straight out of the camera not knowing what I was going to
 do with it once I got it on the computer screen. This was a challenge for me, as I had no plans
when I began, and knew nothing about how it was going to end.

The whole thrust of this tutorial is to show you what I look for, and how I approach a problem image. I
 solve problems as I move along.

Again this is totally unrehearsed from start to finish. It is also my longest tutorial. I promise I
will plan my tutorials from now on. Enjoy me making a fool out of myself.

http://microstockpix.com/tuts/wingit/wingit.html

A Photoshop Tutorial for Advanced Beginner and Intermediate

Image manipulation is the focus in this tutorial. When I took this image,
I should have gotten lower to the ground to get the effect I wanted.

Thank God for photoshop. Now I can re-visit the spot I originally took the image,
and then re-arrange things the way I should have done it in the first place
without even leaving my house this time.

http://microstockpix.com/tuts/perspec/perspec.html

I would like to address a few issues, because I have recieved some emails regarding my recent tutorial posts here.... so let me say this:

1. I am NOT a professional.
2. I use Adobe Photoshop exclusively in all my images.
3. I do NOT use any 3rd party filters, only those found in photoshop.
4. I am NOT a teacher
5. My tutorials are NOT for ADVANCED photoshop users.
6. I have been a photographer for 2 years this month.
7. I use Canon equipment only. I own a 1Ds MK II , & Five "L" series lenses.

A few other notes: Tutorials are not down-loadable because they are in Adobe Flash
 (Maybe they are with some other sofyware)
All my tuts are on my forum at http://unnaturalphotos.com/

My website is not commercial, I don't promote anything. It is strictly a forum for photography and digital image manipulation.
It is not Microstock related, we don't cater to stock photography but anyone is free to join.
This is a brand new website with only new members http://unnaturalphotos.com/

scrappinstacy...

...Your welcomed.

This method of making a selection around is a "Specialized" method that can
be used when accuracy of a selection is paramount....
...and you're not as good with the pen tool as you might like to be.

I offer an an alternative you might not even know existed!

http://microstockpix.com/tuts/balloon/balloon.html

For beginners: Selectively changing a color of an object in an image.

A friend  some guy gave me the image in this tutorial and asked that I show him a very
fast way to change the color of the carousel horse that appears in the image.
For beginners this is a good place to start.

http://microstockpix.com/tuts/color/color.html

"Is there a direct link to all your tuts? I would like to bookmark it. "


Yes there is but you must register and become a memeber in order too view the tuts.
http://unnaturalphotos.com/

This is not a microstock , or about microstock forum. I will not entertain microstock topics.
In fact I would not paste a link to it here, if it competed with this forum. It's just about photography and post processing images

"If the pic looks great at 100, 200 & 300%..."

You never have to go beyond 100% to check your image for noise, artifacts etc.
100% means just that...this is the image I present to you, and at 100% rez.

If you go beyond 100% your bound to find artifacts. Remember their are no full time reviewers
who are also professional photographers making a living at taking photographs. That means
all your photographs are being reviewed by an amateur. Take it in stride.

Low contrast images have no "WOW" or "POP". This is a beginners tutorial
that shows you how you can resuscitate a dying image in 3 quick steps.

http://microstockpix.com/tuts/life/life.html

"To put it more succinctly "Those who can't do, teach."

Are you aware that this is meant and said usually in a derogatory way. However I don't think you meant it that way.
I certainly would not want to be operated on by a surgeon who was taught by a sub-par performer.
Or that was taught in a school in Mexico because they were not accepted into med schools in the USA.

There has to be a love of labor, to enjoy reviewing. I certainly don't expect any successful photographers
to be working for pennies on a microstock site.

Continuing to learn the pen tool in photoshop is difficult. This is the last part in a 4 part series.

I'll show you a method I used to teach myself to finally master this thing photoshop used to try to drive me CRAZY!

http://microstockpix.com/tuts/path4/path4.html