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Killer Photoshop Tutorials - Learn Photoshop Fast
The best photoshop tutorials usually come with the photoshop program installed on your computer. However, some of the programs dont give you a real taste of what they can do, especially if the photoshop is for professionals.
So, for you to make killer photos or improve an images view, you can always look for photoshop tutorials online that can help you understand better how your program works.
To minimize your search only to the best results, you can look for every specific tool of your photoshop program. Photoshop tutorials can sometimes be confusing, especially if this is the first time that you use such a program. This is why, understanding what every tool can do youll be able to understand better any photoshop tutorials.
Photoshop programs are very diverse, some can be specially design to improve the quality of the pictures, other to create special effects and others can be beauty photoshop improvement. Make sure to download the specific program according to what pictures you want to change.
To save yourself the time of scattering for every tool, you can try photoshop video tutorials. By working at the same time with photoshop video tutorials you can catch the main idea in no time. Plus, you get too see on the menu bar, every action performed and how the options chosen modify the picture.
Sometimes, people can provide you with better information than the company that produced the program, simply because of the colloquial language and the simplicity of the actions. Photoshop video tutorials are mostly posted by people that worked a lot about the program. This is in fact the fastest way for you to learn about the picture modifying programs. Its like having somebody next to you that explains you step by step what do you need do to in order to achieve the best results.
The video tutorials are divided, just like readable tutorials, on many audience different categories, so if you have no idea about such programs, this is not a problem. You can learn fast the basics and then move on to a different level. It is best to look for package tutorials. This means that, the same person takes you trough basics and then step by step to different levels. This way, you get to have a continuance in what you learn, just like in school.
You can also try a combination of readable and video tutorials. You could read the basics, and they watch a video related to the program you read about. This way, you can get to understand and practice a lot faster.
Photoshop video tutorials can be found online or you can chosen to download, you can find it here at www.pstutorialspro.com. You will also find other Photoshop Tutorials in this website.
How to photograph the moon
Image by Johan J.Ingles-Le Nobel
Just about everyone with a tripod, long lens and a camera has tried to take a shot of the moon at some point as it's such an obvious subject and just about always there. And that includes me too =). In fact, it isn't very difficult, but there are some gotchas that you do need to bear in mind.
1) Use a tripod, remote release and a couple of seconds delay. That way you ensure that your camera is stable. And if you have a big lens mounted you'd be surprised by how much it wobbles after you've adjusted it for focus... hence the delay.
2) This uses a Sigma 150-500mm at the 500mm end. It was a revelation how nice and sharp it came out, as at the 500mm end this lens isn't the sharpest.
3) During the day contrast can be a problem, so take the shot whilst the moon isn't a full moon. Full moon means light is coming straight at it, so no shadows and little contrast. In this pic above the light is at a bit of an angle which adds shadows so you see some nice craters etc.
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4) Exposure - for this I used 1/160 and f8 - the moon is surprisingly bright.
5) Cool freebie - image stacking software. There are various of these available but the one I've personally found easiest to use is Registax. So what they do is stack images (in this case 5 at the same exposure) to draw out details that you might not see in just the one image. That's how the pros do it so worth doing. Google "registax" - or download it from registax.astronomy.net/
6) White balance - in this case I used 'cloudy' but it's probably wrong =). Looks to me that the blue is a tad dark (hence noisy), but heyho I can live with it.
7) Focus - I focused manually for this. Quite tricky to do actually because the detail through the viewfinder is so dang small. But be aware that taking your zoom and cranking it out to the farthest possibly focus absolutely won't work, because zooms tend to have their farthest focus set at beyond infinity. (Common trap to fall into).
Sharpening - it's so terribly easy to overdo it. This has none whatsoever, just noise removal using a photoshop plugin called "noise ninja" (about 0).
9) Locking focus - I used pieces of electrical insulation tape to lock both focus and zoom. On the Sigma 150-500mm, the weight of the thing and the angle that I was pointing meant that the zoom moves all by itself... so electrical tape is your friend.
10) Needless to say, I shot in raw to allow myself some flexibility in post editing.
11) ISO - use the lowest on your camera
12) Shoot when the moon is as high as possible in the sky rather than low. If it's low in the sky you're trying to cut through a lot of atmosphere, which makes for haze on the photo.
13) Obviously, use a clear night - any hint of cloud and you'll lose detail.
14) I didn't use an equatorial mount (thing that rotates as the earth rotates), a telescope, a specially adapted camera, a teleconverter or any filters. You honestly don't need these to do the moon. For space astrophotography, yes, but the moon, no. The moon is perfectly accessible without all this specialist equipment =).
15) #4 is open to debate, and some people vastly more knowledgable than me consider this unneccessary. The way stacking works is by increasing the signal:noise ratio so for a simple moon shot (considered daylight) there isn't the need. That said, it helped find details on this so perhaps it doesn't do any harm either.
/16) Update to #15, it turns out that registax stacking is a form of super resolution - link to wiki article explaining it better than I ever could.
If you're interested in startrails you should have a look at this photo, which explains how to do these. Tagged with "supermoon" to help supermoon shooters this weekend - good luck =)
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I coudl just sit here and watch this photo all day
fantastica
WONDERFUL!
Thanks for sharing this wonderful knowledge!!!
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very creative, well done
Well done!
wow
nice
This is just brilliant! Thank you so much for the detailed technical description!!
Excelent!
Love the texture of this one!
Super shot and precious infos
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Great shot and thank you for the very useful information.
Have a good weekend my friend.
Nice, very nice.
Marvelous! Thanks for the tips.
Thanks very much for all the info!
Re 4): perhaps it’s not so surprising the moon the moon is as bright as it is when you consider what it’s lit by!
(Also, you don’t say what ISO.)
Re 1): I’ve read that even big tripods can vibrate for a lot longer than you think (or can detect). For a situation like this, I would give it longer than 2 secs – both after "handling" the camera, and for the self-timer – give it a 10 sec delay if you want to be on the safe side.
Beautiful!
thanks for the tips
Thanks a lot for such detailed guidelines for moon photography.. (Also, thanks for the Star trail one too)
Well done. And thank you for the how to.
Have n’t seen any thing like this before
Made me a little more photographer than i already am 
Thanks for the tons of info
Thanks again
Loved it!
brilliant
Thank you for the primer! I failed miserably but at least now I know why. I did everything, everything wrong. Time to read a book about photography or start following your enlightenments.
Yes,that is amazing,thankyou.
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Beautifully captured, great detail.
Oh yeah, the moon landing was over 40 years ago, not 50
Thanks for the write up.
Luv this photo,especially the detail on the moon,thanks.
[ via 'Something Blue (Only Blue)' group on flickriver --lacey51 ]
Nice photo and thankyou for the helpful information.
Thenks for the tips. I find the delay tip useful.
Nice shot, here is mine
i suggest u add a bit sharpening to have more details as i did, have look if u want 
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/valex_5d/5084869394/]
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/clivester] Well we can’t have that now, can we? PM coming
Very nice – certainly one of the best I have seen. In film days I had a 400mm lens for my Practika and had loads of attempts at capturing the moon; but sadly with 105mm being my longest lens at the moment I won’t be able to do this again, or at least not for quite some time
Excellent shot… you have managed to capture a great amount of surface detail. A great shot.
Impresionante !!!!!!!!!
Beautiful shot.
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/martin_finlayson] completely off – it was on a tripod =). The Pentax in-camera SR does a lot of sensor "wobbling around", I always have it off on a tripod.
Very nice shot Johan, did you use the lens’ stabilisation or turn it off?
A great shot Johan and thanks for the tips – I don’t have a lens quite that long unfortunately, but I might just give this a go thanks to your inspiring tips. All the best.
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wow, beautiful
Very nice, detailed instruction, and well done execution too!
Nice one!
superb
thanks for the tutorial
Beautiful.
Fantàstica!!!!
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/1987porsche944] Hmm, you should be able to get something with a 300mm lens though, have you tried cropping 1:1?
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/john_pattison_photography] Yeah, it was perfectly clear, and morning, so all the haze was clear and the conditions were just about perfect. Regarding Registax, it aligns images automatically but you can override it. Clever piece of software.
Well captured!
Very nice shot. interesting technique. It helps to have good atmospheric conditions too – not readily available here – see the latest images on my photostream which were also taken with this lens but as single shots a few nights ago..
How are you compensating for the moons travel using registax or does that align the images automatically?
John
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Wow, this is stunning! I love all the details in the moon, and I really like that it’s not full. Great photo. Thanks for all that info too! I never get good moon shots, but I only have a 300mm and it’s never close enough, just turns into a little silver disc.
one word…………….AWEsome
Spectacular!
Fantastic, how about a slight ‘S’ curve in Photoshop?!!!
Thanks for the info..great shot!
Very nice!
Oh what a super shot !
I’ve tried wiith 200mm but it doesn’t come anywhere near this beauty.
thanks for the discussion too.
Y te decía en aquel enlace de lo que yo creía que era de la luna, que me gustan estas lunas que parecen turrón de crocanti. Saludos
No lo entiendo, adjunta me ha aparecido otra foto, una Aurora Boreal, divina, preciosa, un sueño, y la he alabado pensando que era tuya… no importa, por que lo valia, era preciosa, Saludos.
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/7303117@N06] Yeah, it really was a pleasing surprise to see how it came out. Helps that it’s at an angle to bring out some contrast, I tried this at night a couple of evenings ago when it was full and it wasn’t nearly as nice
terrific shot i tried with my 250mm lens but didnt get any where this detail.Now i also have the Sigma150-500 I shall have to attempt again.
A wonderful shot, the focus is awesome.
see you.