Kens Photoshop Blog

Here’s a little quickie that many people don’t think about. If you like to use your current brush and erase with it, it’s annoying to have to switch to the eraser and then pick the same brush from the brushes palette, or create duplicate of all your brushes set to erase.

This tutorial is a continuation of the Masking and removing backgrounds in photoshop tutorial and builds on what you learned there. If you didn’t complete and internalized the techniques from there, please go and do that now or you won’t be able to follow along. In the Masking and removing backgrounds in photoshop tutorial we [...]

If you are doing product photography where things are not usually moving your masking job just got a hell of a lot easier: Difference masks. Make sure nothing in the scene with your subject moves, this goes for changing lights, moving flags or gobos etc.., the scene must be static. Shoot on a stand and [...]

Bloom is a popular effect, used a lot in computer games to cover up boring areas. The effect is a simulation of bright light flooding a camera lens creating blurred washed out areas. Used well, bloom can be a very powerful effect, especially for landscape or interior photos

While you can get a long way in proper positioning of your lights to minimize highlights, sometimes it’s just much faster to retouch them in post. What would you rather do? Spend ages messing with stands and gobos and moving lights around, or, spend 5 minutes in photoshop to tame them down? Sometimes it’s just [...]

The difference and exclusion blending modes in photoshop comes in very handy when doing exposure blending, a technique used a lot when photographers has to deal with a scene that has to high a dynamic range for the camera to handle.

Well if the names doens’t give them away you probably don’t know what dodging and burning is. Dodging and burning is a technique from the wet darkroom where the photograper would let the emulsion darken or lighten areas to control the exposure and for artistic effects.