Glamour Edit - How To

Glamour Edit - How To, a photo by Creative Outlet Images Photography on Flickr.

Basical Glamour Edit / How-To:

1) Image capture in RAw
2) import to adobe lightoom
3) Focus on image quality corrections:
a) Correct for exposure and coloring (exposure slider, curvers, brightness, shadows, highlights)
b) Enable profile corrections for your lens that you used.
c) Tilt / Crop the photo to make it straight.
d) Reduce the noise in the photo if necessary.
4) Blemish Correction:
a) Remove skin blemishes, color patches, scars, etc with the spot remover tool.
b) Remove excess moles if that is what you want to do.
5) If you want to spend more time on the photo and get that last 10% out of the images, select edit in photoshop.
6) Edit in photoshop essentially repeating the above with emphasis on the following:
a) Eye whiteness
b) Lip and pupil color enhancement
c) Hair color
d) Large skin blemishes that were not in spot form.
7) Try a couple of creative things to see if they enhance the image such as black and white.
8) Sharpen and save.



MOre detail here: http://creativeoutletimages.blogspot.com/

Adobe Lightroom Tip #1 – Where is my missing thumbnail zoom slider?

This one is a personal frustration point with Lightroom that seems to happen every 6 months or so.  When in the library mode the lower bar that allows you zoom the size of your thumbnails disappears.  This same bar also has the functinality to sort thumbnails by capture time, file type, etc.

Fix = Go to the “view” menu and then do “show toolbar”.   Such an easy fix for a point of frustration.

You can also zoom the thumbnails by hitting “+” and “-” on the keyboard.

Adobe version number currently used for this posting = 3.4

Double Ti Locks - How did I shoot it?

Double Ti Locks - How did I shoot it?, a photo by Creative Outlet Images Photography on Flickr.

How did I do it?

1) Setup a tripod.
2) Set the camera to manual settings and locked iso.
3) Place the knife on a flat dark surface (a speaker here)
4) Take the first picture.
5) Turn the knife over and move it to a different spot.
6) Take another picture with exactly the same camera, zoom, and tripod settings.
7) Upload to Lightroom.
8) Correct for croping, exposure, normal corrections.
9) Export as layers to Photoshop
10) Set the top layer to a layer mask
11) Select a paint brush and the black color.
12) Paint in the other knife to reveal it.
13) Save and your done!


Canon 5d Mark 2, 85mm 1.2l, Transcend CF card, manfrotto tripod.