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Photoshop: Tips and Tricks for Beginners

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Transform: Change the size of an image, rotate, flip or distort it!

Click Edit > then click Transform > and select the action you desire.

Or try these shortcuts to make life even easier:

Press Ctrl + T on your keyboard and a bounding box will then appear around the image, indicating transformation. This means you can now resize your image. The best way to do so is by placing the cursor on one of the rectangle corners of the box and then dragging the corner while holding the Shift key. When you’re finished just press Enter and you’re done.

To flip your image vertically or horizontally press Ctrl + T and then right click your mouse. A popup window will appear with a few options for rotating and flipping the image. Select the action you want and when you are done press Enter.

To distort or skew an image press Ctrl + T and then place the cursor on whichever corner you want to distort. Press Ctrl while holding your mouse down on whichever corner of the image you’re looking to morph and drag it down to your desired point, finally press Enter to activate.

 

Shoot Hazy and Ethereal Photos Using a Sandwich Bag and Colored Markers

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Photographer Jesse David McGrady has a super simple trick for adding a hazy, ethereal effect to your photographs: wrap a plastic sandwich bag around your lens. It sounds ridiculous and silly, but the results you get are actually quite nice!

First, find yourself a sandwich bag — those thing plastic bags that you carry sandwiches around in.

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On the closed side of the bag, use your hands to tear a hole. Don’t use scissors, since you’ll want the edges to be rough, uneven, and slightly random.

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Take the open end of the bag and slide it over your camera lens, with the hole end extending a little past the end of your lens. You want to make sure it can be seen in your viewfinder. Don’t cover up the middle portion of the frame, since you’ll want a clear section to see your subject through.

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Voila! You’ve got yourself an instant hazy, retro, light leak look for just pennies:

Okay, a sample photograph of an empty smoothie glass is a bit lame, but check out what McGrady has been able to do using this “hack”:

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To customize the look you get, you can take a colored pen and draw over the plastic bag, adding color to certain parts. Here are a couple of photos shot by McGrady using a baggie that was marked with purple:

You can find more of McGrady’s photographs shot using this trick/technique/hack here and here.

Photography outsourcing: Why you should go for it !

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Photographers, generally gets uneasy when they hear the word “outsourcing”. Noway you would want to ruin your concept of the image by letting anyone do the post production. I mean how could you be a photographer and outsource your work, is it even your work anymore? How can anyone else implement the vision you had while taking the shot? 

We think the concept to outsource photo editing is one that is very hard for most photographers to tell themselves that it is the right choice, but we’re here to tell you, that at a certain point in your career, it most certainly is the right choice.

If you’ve ever read the E-Myth (and if you haven’t go pick it up now!) it talks about how the death of a business is when the technician is always in control, that you need the manager and entrepreneur to play equal roles. When you, the photographer, spend all your time sitting at a computer editing your sessions, the technician is in control and consumes the time you could be doing management or entrepreneur work.

The time would be much better spent putting your face out in the public, booking more clients, shooting additional sessions, or collaborating with other members of your community. Your time has value, and there comes a point that you are actually holding your business back by doing that type of work. There will become a point when your time holds a much higher value than the cost of paying to have your edits done by somebody else, you will in fact be saving your business money!


So when is a good time to consider it?

  1.  You need to know your style.

    You need to have it nailed because if you’re going to be outsourcing that job, you need to be able to tell the company or person how to get the job done. And being able to describe your editing style is also something that you should feel comfortable doing and if you don’t know how to answer that, then take a step back and evaluate your work some.

  2. Have your SOOC pretty consistent and streamlined.

    This goes along with the above. But we do think it’s worth mentioning, that it has been our experience, that even when you feel pretty good about your SOOC shots, once you start to outsource, we can almost promise you that they will get even better, consistent if you will. It just kind of happens that way.

  3. Evaluate your time.

    This next piece is up to interpretation as each of our lives are filled very differently. But you need to evaluate how much of your time is consumed and if that’s at a level that you’re wanting it to be, maybe you’d like another hour per day to spend with your family. Have you run out of hours in your day? It’s time to asses when the number of sessions is

    a) consistent
    b) at a point where you have run out of time to ‘do-it-all.’

  4.  Maybe you don’t enjoy editing!

    Well this one may throw you off, but if you’ve got your style figured out and you’re rocking your SOOC; maybe you’re not a ‘professional’ maybe you’re shooting for YOU! But just like that other photographer, your time is precious and maybe, just maybe, you don’t enjoy the editing. Yes, I think even as a hobbyist, choosing to outsource is totally reasonable and ok!

    Now do you need all four steps checked off the list to decide to outsource? Absolutely not. We think 1 & 2 are essential to make the switch but then I think you either fall in category 3 or 4, not necessarily both.
    Outsourcing shouldn’t be a big scary word that you avoid, and it shouldn’t be something you take lightly either, but it is something that should make you happy. At the end of the day you should feel good about your choice, own it and start doing all those other things you could be doing with your time and business.

Background color change- BEFORE & AFTER

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Step 1: open up your Photoshop and the picture you want to change the background colour.

Step 2: click the quick selection tool here and use that tool to select the person. if the selection goes out of the person, subtract the selection using this  you can find it at the top of Photoshop

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Step 3: after that, at the top of photoshop click refine edge. here

this should pop up.

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click the smart radius. after that adjust the radius. mess around with it. after you’ve finish click ok.

Step 4: right click on the picture, select inverse like this  after that click layer>new fill layer>solid color. like this

Step 5:  After that simply click ok without doing anything. After you click ok. this will pop up.

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Step 6:  Choose any solid colour you want to fill your background. after you’ve finish click ok.

Step 7:  you’re done! click ‘save’ or ‘save as’.  make sure that you change the format into JPEG.

Why Outsource Clipping Path Services?

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Clipping path is now an important service for all kinds of online based company that provides online promotional business like online shop, E-commerce business, design house etc. clipped images are also most useful things for e-commerce trades which have a group of product’s images to attract the probable customers. Clipped images are being used in Posters, flyers, brochure, websites, catalogs, magazines, newspaper, photo house, advertising and all different sector where images are used frequently. That’s why clipping path service is becoming very useful thing to Advertising agencies, e-commerce business provider, photographers, design house, publishing companies, affiliate marketer, graphic house and web developers.

Digital Agency:

In the digital agency, using of photo editing service is very high. A large amount of clipped images are used in advertising agencies, promotion agencies, marketing agencies, design agencies, social media agency, media planning agencies, branding or identity agencies and public relation agencies. Some of them are fully depended on photo editing techniques where clipped images are their raw material.

 E-Commerce Business:

This Types of Company needs clipping path service very effectively because all e-commerce business sites are fully online based. They outreach their information and products by internet. Product’s clipped images are being used in business to business communication, business to consumer communication, consumer to consumer relation, consumer to administration connection and others e-commerce businesses sector.

Online Shop:

Online shop is known as electronic retail service or e-shop service where consumers buy products or services directly from online sellers over the internet. E-shopping is the best alternative way to physically going in market. In online shop, shopkeepers sell their products to customers through product’s image with text. So all web stores and E-shops need clipping path service at widely. Generally Online Book Keeping Shop, Online Grocery Store, Online Bakery Shop, Online Delicatessen, Online Liquor Store, Online Drugstore, Online Hardware Store, Online Newsstand shop, Online Boutique house displays their product’s image on their web-shop.

Web Developer:

Clipped images are an important portion of any website. Maximum amount of e-commerce and online shop’s websites are filled with product’s image. Image processing service is most relevant sector with web development sector. Clipped images are used in website’s visual content, product or service part, alt tags, portfolio, blog page and other Purposes.

Printing House:

There are many printing house like Digital printing company, electrostatic printing house, flexography, gravure printing house, letterpress, offset lithography, thermography, screen printing and photo printing company needs clipping path service hardly. A large amount of clipped images are used printing sector frequently.

Photo Studios:

Photo Studios are involved with different types of photographers and photography house where clipping path service is used hugely. This sector needs large amount photos individually or corporate purpose which are processed by clipping path technique.

Design Studios:

Advertising design studio, in-design house, fashion design house, architecture design house, factory shape design house and other design studios are quite depended on clipping path service. Clipping path is the fundamental step for any kinds of composite design. It is also use in product design, interface design, visual design and engineering design sectors.

Publishing House:

Clipped photos are appropriate part for all publishing sectors like photo publishers, book publishing house, printing publishers, newspaper publisher and magazine publishing Company. Maximum numbers of publishing companies have photo editing sector where clipping photos technique is used as a large volume from others editing service.

There are no found any online based companies in the world where processed images are not used frequently. Processed images are most useful object for different online stages like online community, online media, online service provider companies and different social media sectors. Not only online purpose but also traditional marketing techniques need this service. There are some photo outsourcing company that provide image manipulation service like clipping path, photo retouching and color correction services to individual clients. So all the outsourcing company is fully depend on this service who outsource clipping path service mainly.