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Screencast: Creating black and white cutouts

We ran an article last month called Black and White with a Splash of Color. In this video I'll show you a few additional simple but powerful techniques that will allow you to easily reproduce that effect. You should be able to use these techniques in any image editor that supports [...]

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Black and White with a Splash of Colour

One of the techniques people most often ask me to teach them is making a photograph like the one on the right that is black and white with one other colour. There are a few ways to achieve this effect but here is the one I find easiest for Photoshop [...]

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Screencast: Curves color enhancement tutorial

This 2.5 minute screencast shows a simple and fast technique using multiple layers to enhance the colors in a photograph. GIMP is free photo editing software for Windows, Mac and Linux. I published the final version of this photo at Flickr.

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Screencast: Easy exposure blending tutorial with GIMP

This 2 minute screencast shows an easy-to-use technique for blending multiple exposures (or in this case, two versions of one exposure) to increase the dynamic range of a photograph. GIMP is free photo editing software for Windows, Mac and Linux. I published the final version of this photo at Flickr. Music by Pitx. [...]

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Selecting foregrounds in the GIMP (video)

This video is a quick demonstration of the foreground selection tool in the GIMP, a powerful and free image editing application. The foreground selection tool gives photographers a quick and easy way to isolate portions of a photograph for masking or other effects. Music by sunbyrn.