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How to automate dodging and burning for your photos

How to automate dodging and burning for your photos

This is an instructional video which I recorded to show burn and dodge automation for your photos in Adobe Photoshop. Almost every photo, included those processed by HDR technique, needs to add such level of higher contrast. Higher contrast means lighter parts are lightened (dodge), darked parts are darkened (burn).Adobe ...

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Logo of Photomatix

Collection of popular Photomatix presets

It is just a year ago when I wrote and published article about Stuart’s Photomatix Pro Presets. I know from Google Analytics that this article remains still very popular. But time in the meantime progressed and currently more Photomatix Pro presets are available. Some of them are  for free, some ...

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My garden fully covered by snow during winter

Great HDR photo using additional presets for Photomatix

Now it is time for post-processing of shots I've made during this lasting winter season. Some of them were designed for HDR workflow. I've start playing with them, but after loading shot to Photomatix (as it is my preferred tool for postprocessing of HDR shots) I got idea looking for ...

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Orchy river

Orchy river

I love Scotland. You know that. I fell in love long time ago by viewing Ian Cameron's images. And I confirmed this love this year definitively during my trip to Scotland. This image remind me everytime the pure wilderness of Scotland landscape and nature emphasized by the winter season.  Orchy ...

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How to create luminosity masks

How to create luminosity masks

This is an instructional video recorded by me to show you how to create luminosity masks in Adobe Photoshop.These luminosity masks are a tool for advanced editing of photos. It allows you to separate effect of adjustments made to the image to such level of lights or darks tones, so ...

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My photo Propeller featured by @flowerstalking

May 8, 2013 by Lubos Bruha | Leave a comment
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I was honored by @flowerstalking for my black & white photo (left middle in the collage below), thanks so much. Check the feed, follow @flowerstalking account and tag your best flower photos with #flowerstalking and/or #flowerstalking_bw for the chance to be featured.
I was honored by @flowerstalking for my bw LM photo, thanks so much. Check the feed, follow @flowerstalking account and tag your best flower photos with #flowerstalking and/or #flowerstalking_bw for the chance to be featured.
(c) Copyright Lubos Bruha 2013, All rights reserved.

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How to automate dodging and burning for your photos

May 5, 2013 by Lubos Bruha | Leave a comment
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This is an instructional video which I recorded to show burn and dodge automation for your photos in Adobe Photoshop. Almost every photo, included those processed by HDR technique, needs to add such level of higher contrast. Higher contrast means lighter parts are lightened (dodge), darked parts are darkened (burn).Adobe Photoshop offers special tools for dodging and burning, however in this tutorial those tools are avoided. Instead, you will see fully non-destructive way of postprocessing for making better contrast. Everything what you need for it, it is creating two additonal layers, one filled with white color for dodging and second one filled by black for burning parts of image.

The effect is limited to right parts of the image because of using special masks for highlights and shadows. Adobe Photoshop CS5 and CS6 offer menu options for creating these types of masks. If you have previous versions of Adobe Photoshop, or you want to play with masks you can use luminosity masks from my previous tutorial.

The video is recorded in Czech and it has English subtitles. The whole procedure is demonstrated on my HDR image of Brooklyn Bridge, New York City, exposed during winter sunset.

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Marsh marigold – from Instagram

May 4, 2013 by Lubos Bruha | Leave a comment
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This spring blossom searches for wetlands. I made this photo during scouting new location near Zhůřský potok in Bohemian forest. Sun was shining so it was very tough to get right exposure to preserve details of flower. It is a prove that it is possible to make this type of macro photo even with phone camera.Check out this image Marsh marigold from my Instagram – @lubosbruha.

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Awakening – from Instagram

May 2, 2013 by Lubos Bruha | Leave a comment
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It is a pleasure to watch awakening nature in spring, the image below illustrates maple leaves in very early stage close to develop. The green color is a fascinating.

Check out this image Awakening from my Instagram – @lubosbruha.

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Colored leaves – from Instagram

May 2, 2013 by Lubos Bruha | Leave a comment
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These small shrubs perfectly bushes by their colors perfectly complement evergreens conifers. Their leaves are full of colors ranging from bright yellow to dark red on the edges. Remotely disrupt the greenness of spring garden and in close view their reveal its color structure, you just have to tilt.

Check out this image Colored leaves from my Instagram – @lubosbruha.

Colored leaves - from Instagram

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Tulips rising – from Instagram

May 2, 2013 by Lubos Bruha | Leave a comment
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Tulips adorn any garden. It’s nice to see how slowly grow and develop from bud over rosebud to a beautiful flower.

Check out this image Tulips rising from my Instagram – @lubosbruha.

Tulips rising - from Instagram

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Maple leaves – from Instagram

May 2, 2013 by Lubos Bruha | Leave a comment
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This shrub maple looked in the past two years very sickly. We are prepared to exchange it, but this spring he was clothed in the bright yellow to orange color of hope. I hope it would last.

Check out this image Maple leaves from my Instagram – @lubosbruha.

Maple leaves - from Instagram

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Cherry-tree – from Instagram

May 2, 2013 by Lubos Bruha | Leave a comment
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Cherry blossom inherently belongs to the spring season. They signal May, time when everything wakes up, turns green and bloom.

Check out this image Cherry-tree from my Instagram – @lubosbruha.

Cherry-tree - from Instagram

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Bouquet – from Instagram

April 27, 2013 by Lubos Bruha | Leave a comment
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I like bunches of blue and pretty small flowers – periwinkles. It would not bothered me if they gradually overgrown part of garden because they are pretty sight. Not to mention symbol of spring and rebirth for me.

Check out this image Bouquet from my Instagram – @lubosbruha.

Bouquet - from Instagram

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Propeller – from Instagram

April 27, 2013 by Lubos Bruha | Leave a comment
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These small flowers – periwinkles – every day welcoming me home. Their pure blue color heralds the peace and quiet of home. At the same time these flowers look like little propeller.

Check out this image Propeller from my Instagram – @lubosbruha.

Propeller - from Instagram

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