simonplant

Simon Plant is an award-winning photographer & retoucher with over two decades of experience in the production of people & location photography. Whatever the subject his images share the same unique style and attention to detail from start to finish.These serene moments are created with his personal utilization of colour, light and rich tonal values, together with a personal interaction with his subject. You may check out Simon's website.

Photoshop Video Tutorial: Dodge & Burn Using Curves

From the early days of photography dodge & burning has been used to help add emphasis and impact to selective areas of images.

Within photoshop we show one of the many ways to digitally dodge & burn an image with an added level of flexibility.

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Create a Festive Christmas e-Card Using Your Photo

A short tutorial for those who don’t have a graphic design degree, but wish to create a simple clean Christmas e-card from their images within the familiar surroundings of Photoshop.

Don’t miss our our great collection of Christmas gift ideas for photographers!

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LAB Color Correction Video Tutorial: Creative Grading Techniques for Images

In this second video on LAB we explore a way to add creative color grading onto a desaturated dusk image.

Once again exploring LAB colour mode and curves we get playful to create saturation and color contrast to add life to a dull scene.

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How to Apply LAB Color Adjustments in Photoshop to Enhance Your Photo

In this video we explore the most powerful color space in Photoshop LAB. You can do things in the LAB that are impossible in any other color mode, but in this video we keep it simple to start.

We show you how LAB can help not only boost saturation in an image, but also how it can help separate colors too all without the problems that can arise by attempting similar things in RGB.

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