Improve Your Image: Photoshop Tips

Learn a few tricks and ways to improve your process. You may know some; you may know others. These are mine, and I use them all the time.

Originally presented at Multipack Presents, November 2010.

Transcript

1. Your Image Improve b y A N D Y H I G G S
2. D E S I G N B A S I C S
3. D E S I G N B A S I C 1
4. Always stay within the lines
5. D E S I G N B A S I C 2
6. Don’t run with scissors
7. D E S I G N B A S I C 3NEW
8. Using Computers And Knowing Photoshop Lens Flare Blue Font Size Floppy Disks Gradient Circles/Lines
9. Techniques
10. Problem: Banded Gradients 1
11. 1 Add Noise
12. Golden Rule of Resizes Only ever apply a single resize or transformation at once* *especially when there are thin lines, borders and sharp edges 2
13. 3 DULL PHOTOS
14. 3 DULL PHOTOS
15. Contrast Saturation Sharpness DULL PHOTOS 3
16. Effect The 4
20. 5 Download a free ‘Peel Off White’ Plugin http://www.bergdesign.com/plugins/ http://www.cybia.co.uk/theworks.html
21. Better Black & White Use a Gradient Map Instead 6
22. What Have We Learnt Today? • Add Noise to solve banded gradients • Break Image Transforms into stages • Contrast, Saturation & Sharpness • Add Gradients to increase visual impact • Get a ‘Remove White’ plugin • Multiple ways to achieve black & white
23. J O B V A C A N C Y K I C K A S S W E B D E V E L O P E R Are you a talented web developer? Code PHP/MySQL (OOP and MVC style)? Fulltime, £20-30K p/a, Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter? Opportunities to work with ace clients? Click http://higgs.co/jobs for the job details
24. Fin Photo credits Twitter: @aajhiggs / @higgsdesign Work: http://higgsdesign.com Personal: http://justbeyondthebridge.co.uk http://www.flickr.com/photos/mononukleoza/4500199835 http://www.flickr.com/photos/slightlywinded/66883761 http://www.flickr.com/photos/lockergnome/1583389553 The BBC, Wikipedia, Sesame Workshop Contact