Adobe Photoshop

In this Photoshop film Mark Cleghorn looks at the many ways of black and white using ACR and Adobe Photoshop.

This part features turning images to Mono in Photoshop. First of all Mark recaps on previous techniques before exploring some new techniques to turn colour images to great black and whites.

Topics covered - ACR, HSL, De-saturate, Grayscale, Channel Mixer, Channel Mixer Presets

In this Photoshop film Mark Cleghorn shows you how to refine one of the most difficult selections, Hair and Skin.

Using Photoshop CS5 Mark demonstrates the advanced feature of refining your selection to help separate wisps of hair and at the same time give a good selection on skin, which was almost impossible for the normal photoshop user up untill this feature.

Features - Colour Range, Refine Edge, refine edge tool, erase fine edge tool, contrast slider. feather, slider, decontamination slider, selection inversion, out put a mask, add to a selection, green screen, shift edges.

In this Photoshop film Mark Cleghorn looks at the many ways of black and white using ACR and Adobe Photoshop.

This part features turning images to Mono in Photoshop.

In this Photoshop film Mark Cleghorn looks at the many ways of black and white using ACR and Adobe Photoshop.

This part features turning images to Mono in ACR.

PT4U Master Portrait Photographer And Elements Guru- Kenny Martin

In this film Kenny Martin explains his High Dynamic Range (HDR) techniques to merge a variety of images to get a greater tonal range overall and then how Stitching of images together can make a great panoramic. The images were all taken during his 2 part shooting landscapes.

Features - HDR in Photo Matix, Stitching in Elements 8

PT4U Master Portrait Photographer And Elements Guru- Kenny Martin

In this film Kenny Martin continues to finish the images ready for the client to view one of his Photo Noir sessions.

This film includes - Photoshop, Softning, Retouching, slide show production, viewing slide show

In this Photoshop film Mark Cleghorn looks at finishing the image ready for a Portfolio, Qualifications and Competitions as well as our own Live Photo Critique nights on PT4U.

In this fifth part Mark looks at taking an image to the next level using detail recovery in highlights as well as Cropping for Composition and image enhancement tools like Actions, Layers, Levels, Free Transform, Auto Align and opacity.

PT4U Master Portrait Photographer And Elements Guru- Kenny Martin

In this film Kenny Martin finishes one of his Photo Noir sessions and prep the images ready for the client. The images will be corrected using a combination of Phase one Capture one 5 Pro for image correction basics at the RAW stage and then Photoshop for final finish plus the onOne Photo Tools Plugin.



On One Plugins and Suite

In this Photoshop film Mark Cleghorn looks at finishing the image ready for a Portfolio, Qualifications and Competitions as well as our own Live Photo Critique nights on PT4U.

In this forth part Mark looks at taking an image to the next level using Cropping for Composition and image enhancement tools like Actions, Layers, Levels, Free Transform, Auto Align and opacity.

This film made in conjunction with The Lastolite School Of Photography and concentrates on colour balance techniques in both camera and post production and how it is used.

The film gives you an insight in to using and getting the best out of the variety of colour balance products by Lastolite when shooting, Mark Cleghorn demonstrates the setting up, as well as using correct colour balance and shooting.

In this film Mark Cleghorn shoots on Location as well as in the studio to demonstrate the need for correct colour balance whether in camera or in post production, talking about colour balance and how to set up an accurate colour balance using a grey card as well as the exposure. Mark also discusses some basic portrait lighting styles to take great portraits.

All of the Lastolite equipment is available to buy from PhotoKit4U or click the product link below for direct pricing in the UK.
Sekonic Meter, Grey Card