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This is the first in a series of "Photoshop Kindergarten"
Designed for the RAW beginner who owns photoshop but is too
lazy to learn it.

What you need to do then is enroll in:
Kindergarten for the Photoshop (almost) User

First lesson MASKS What are they? and What do they do?
http://microstockpix.com/tuts/masks2/masks2.html

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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

603
SnapVillage.com / Re: Corbis Entering Microstock
« on: June 04, 2007, 14:21 »
It was inevitable, it HAD to happen. Macro Stock is dying. Why?
.....Because Macro Stock can't compete with Microstock which has taken out a BIG chunk of it's profits. 

Why should a budding new designer with limited resources (or anyone for that matter), pay
the exuberant prices Macro Stock demands for it's images when microstock offers comparable images
for less than 1/4 the price?

Think about Microstock as the new Walmart for Macrostock.

604
Photoshop Discussion / Photoshop Tutorial - Ad lib (as I go)
« on: June 02, 2007, 22:10 »
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

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Photoshop Discussion / Re: My Photoshop Tutorials
« on: June 02, 2007, 21:47 »
I'll do them till I can't think of anything else. These tuts are really designed
for the beginner, because I have to keep them short. On my website I plan on
doing more advanced tutorials once I get the membership up. I need more
photographers who are also interested in photoshop.

Also I'm looking for others to post their tutorials too. I know this can help you
stock photographers because I was a stock photographer too. I did alot of image
manipulation for microstock  sites before I made the decission to break away.

606
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

607
Photoshop Discussion / Re: My Photoshop Tutorials
« on: June 02, 2007, 18:51 »
"Wow, for a non-pro you sure use high-end equipment..."

My friend, when I retired, I found all this retirement money all over the place, under my mattress, in the bank, in a jar on my dresser.
There was sooooo much money when I retired I was sweeping it off the floors, and vacuuming it out of the furniture.

Then just when I thought I had everything under control, the state of New York started sending me MORE money and wiring it into my bank.
Then I discovered stock photography. I had to get out of stock photography eventually. Every month, all the websites that I joined started
ganging up on me. They started doing the same thing the state was doing....sending me hundreds of dollars every month. I just got sick of it
and finally quit stock photography. I had to. I had no other choice.

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Photoshop Discussion / My Photoshop Tutorials
« on: June 02, 2007, 17:52 »
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/

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Photoshop Tutorial for Beginners and Intermediate Users

Let's get creative with our images. Adding fog in the appropriate images adds
a surrealistic effect, and allows us to add our own dramatic license to our images.


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

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scrappinstacy...

...Your welcomed.

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Tutorial is for Beginners and Intermediate Users

Using Unsharp Mask and a Layer Mask we'll enhance your portraits looking
right into the soul of the individual you photographed!

http://microstockpix.com/tuts/eyes2/eyes2.html

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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

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Your right I modified the post to reflect the truth.
I don't have any friends...I used to have friends. They were more of a burden to me than anything
of any benefit. So I got rid of all them. Now I'm happy in my own world with no friends asking me
for this....lend them that,...show them this...give me that...

614
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

615
For beginners and intermediates:

Have you ever selected an object, and then copied it into another image? Did it have the "Fringeies"? That ugly white outline around the object you selected, copied and pasted. Let me take you to the "fringe" with your experimentation in photoshop.
http://microstockpix.com/tuts/fringe/fringe.html

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"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

617
In this beginners tutorial series, I'll show how to take your first
steps in taking control and begin to manipulate your images.

Lesson #1: Place clouds in any image
Did you take a great image with your camera on a cloudless day?
Want clouds? Great! lets change the weather forecast together.

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

618
"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.

619
Some underexposed images are worthless regardless of how you try to save them.
I'll show you a method you can try first before you decide to trash it.

This technique should work 85% - 90% of the time. Watch out for noise though.

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

620
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

621
Here's a method I use to dodge and burn images that affords me more
control and flexibility in my images, by placing all the editing on it's own layer.

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

622
Off Topic / Re: Reviewer
« on: May 25, 2007, 15:15 »
"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.

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Off Topic / Re: Reviewer
« on: May 25, 2007, 09:18 »
Must be a SS reviewer....the scrape the floors of their forum to find reviewers. They actually hire people right out of the forum!
A reviewer is a thankless job....low pay, no benefits, boring job description, and no no excitement....Not like us guys who spend all
our waking moments meeting new people, getting out and taking pictures, mixing it up and having a good time.

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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

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Continuing to learn the pen tool in photoshop is difficult. This is the third 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/path3/path3.html


Part 1: http://microstockpix.com/tuts/path1/path1.html
Part 2: http://microstockpix.com/tuts/path2/path2.html

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