Some of my favorite keyboard shortcuts:
d – sets your foreground and background colors to the default black and white.
x - switches your foreground color to background and the other way around.
v – selects the move tool.
b - selects the brush tool.
s - selects the clone stamp tool.
t – selects the type tool.
c - selects the crop tool.
cmd + n – creates a new document.
cmd + shift + n - creates a new layer
Every Mac OS X Snow Leopard user should take 15 min or less of their time to update their operating system tonight! 10.6.2 is out and Apple has fixed a lot of big and small stuff so this one is really nice to have so get up to date by starting your program updater or head over to Apple.com.
So this week I’m going to send you guys over to MacHeist they got an incredible offer on their site, 6 apps for 0$ that’s right they are free as a bundle!
The 6 apps in the MacHeist nanoBundle are:
All you got to do is head over the MacHeist and register and you’ll get your license codes! Isn’t that awesome! On their site you can watch a short video that tells you all about the apps if you wanna learn more first! I can promise that this is good apps tried Twitterific and it is great so i guess the other apps will share its awesomeness (I really don’t think awesomeness is a word but my mac doesn’t tell me it is wrong)!
Okey so in this tutorial we are going to create a split tone effect. The photo will be toned in two colors one for the highlights and one for the shadows, this is a common effect that you can play around with a lot on your own later! So lets go!
First you’ll need to open a photo into photoshop (you can achieve this effect in lightroom and camera raw but we are going to do it in photoshop). Maybe you have to process the photo thru ACR (adobe camera raw) maybe not depending on your normal workflow.
Then we need to make the image black and white (you can do this effect and not make the image black and white but then the photo will look cross processed). There are many different ways of turning a color photo into black and white but one easy way is to press cmd+shift+U or ctrl+shift+U. This will create a black and white conversion for you. If your not happy with the results you can always use a curves adjustment layer to fix that.
Next we’ll do the effect, the best way to do this is to go with a color balance adjustment layer so that you can go back and change things if you aren’t happy with the results. When you open color balance you’ll need to choose a tonal range to work within (shadows, midtones and highlights, we are going to use the shadows and highlights). So if we start with shadows you wanna go down and drag the sliders for red, green and blue to mix in a color in the shadows. When the shadows look good you’ll do the same with the highlights. There is so many possibilities with this effect so try a bunch of settings!
Here are two of my images I played aroud with when trying this effect:
Hope you enjoyed this tutorial and please come with suggestions on future tutorials!
(Adjustment layers can be found at Layer -> New Adjustment Layer)
This isn’t a photo taken this week but to get me started I decided to post a photo I took in Orlando, Florida 2008. It is taken at SeaWorld and I converted it to black and white because the colors was so messed up from shooting thru glass into a tank of water. Hope you like it!
© Rasmus Johansson
Okey I figured I needed to change some things up to make this blog better so I got a entirely new category system to make it easier to find other posts in the same genre. And I got a new schedule for my blog, wanna take a look?
Monday – Apple Quick Tip (Small tips that might help you get around Mac Os X and other apple hardware and software, if there is something you wan’t to know make a comment).
Tuesday – Photoshop Quick Tip (Small tips that might help you get around Photoshop, if there is something you wan’t to know make a comment).
Every other wednesday – iPhone App Review (Might be long, might be short).
Thursday – Photo of the week.
Every other friday – Photoshop Tutorial or Plugin Review.
Saturday – No scheduled bloging.
Sunday – No scheduled bloging.
Sometimes when you’re using Photoshop and switch to the brush tool your courser has change from the usual circular shape to a crosshair. So what did you do? This issue has a easy fix, press the Caps Lock key on the keyboard to toggle between the two modes. It is so easy to accidentally press the Caps Lock when you are supposed to press the Shift or Tab keys.
Using Front Row and your external drives can create some irritation ’cause when you press source you might think you can set up a new source but no.. So if you have all you movies on an external drive create an alias for the movie folder on the external drive by right clicking on the folder and select “create alias” and put it in your movies folder in your home folder on your mac’s internal drive. This will make Front Row think that all the movies are stored on your mac’s internal drive. If this was a bit tricky to follow write a comment and I’ll get back to you as soon as I can and try to explain a bit better!
.. is because I am writing it on google wave with the help of other wavers so we will finish it as soon as possible I promise!
.. and I’m tired as hell! But I haven’t posted anything in a while so thought I would post a few images! Hope you like them!
All taken with the D300 and 70-200 f/.28 @ 2.8 processed thru Aperture 2
