Digital Photo Magazine May 2007 companian CD

10 fantastic new video tutorials, including a wealth of tips on improving your landscape images. There’s also vital info on adding Saturation to your shots, an in-depth look at the Pen Tool and a guided tour of Adobe’s new Lightroom software.

Video lessons
Jon Adams video lessons
■ Jon Adams explains how to blend multiple RAW
conversions and correct landscape foregrounds.
■ Jon shows how to add impact to a weak
landscape foreground by enlarging it in Photoshop.
■ Jon reveals how to import a brand new
foreground element to improve a landscape’s
composition.
Kingsley Singleton video lessons
■ Kingsley Singleton shows how to boost saturation
in a scene using a special technique that won’t
cause colours to block out.
Phil Hall video lessons
■ Phil Hall reveals how to use Photoshop’s Pen tool
to make very accurate Selections in part 1 of this
video lesson.
■ In part 2, Phil takes his cut-out and digitally
constructs a stunning still-life image.
Mat Gallagher video lessons
■ Mat Gallagher takes an in-depth tour of Adobe
Lightroom’s features and functions.
Gavin Hoey video lessons
■ Gavin Hoey shows how to set up and shoot highspeed
flash images with your camera’s pop-up flash.
■ Gavin reveals how to turn a photo into a
watercolour in Elements.
■ Gavin demonstrates the pen & wash technique in
PSP software.
Start images
■ All the pictures used by our experts to create this
month’s images are included on the CD, so you can
try the techniques for yourself!
CD Gallery
■ See what Digital Photo readers have been up to
this month!
CD index Issue 91 June 2007
Video lessons
Jon Adams video lessons
■ Jon Adams shows how to use Lightroom to
make fantastic mono conversions from RAW
files.
■ Jon reveals how the Fill control differs from
Opacity, and how you can use it to create
great effects.
■ Jon shows how you can straighten up a
picture using Transform.
Kingsley Singleton