Photoshop Sites?

[henry yorke]

Hi all,

I shoot MF B&W and am just starting to poke around in Photoshop 7. I was looking at Paul Butzi's web site and was very interested in his "Anatomy of a Photograph" section - http://www.butzi.net/articles/anatomy1.htm . My question is, are there any web sites that are specifically devoted to digital dodging and burning (like Paul's site) that anyone would recommend? I'm getting tired of wading through the PS tutorial sites that teach you to do all sorts of useless(for me) fancy stuff. Just a straight ahead photography tutorial site would be great. Thanks.

[bob carnie]

I think this is an excellent way of showing how to build up an image from raw. The on off function is very good.

[memorymaker]

Hey Henry. You might be interested in www.radiantvista.com or www.photowalkthrough.com. I've learned more about PhotoShop from these 2 places than anywhere else on the web.

[mhv]

From Wikipedia's recommendations, I found http://www.scantips.com/ about scanning, and http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials.htm about the digital workflow in general. Sure, the latter covers a lot of digi capture, but it has a lot of important information on what to know when an image is in pixel status.

[Baxter Bradford]

The Martin Evening book - Photoshop for Photographers is probably all you will ever need. You can look up just what you want to do, when you want to. He provides a cd for tutorials too.

If you are using PS7, then this book ought to be available cheap as second hand, or as remaindered stock. Even if you upgrade to CS2, then you can use help to learn how to use the new features, or if you were hooked like I spend some more money for Mr Evening's benefit!

[Don Bryant]

The Martin Evening book - Photoshop for Photographers is probably all you will ever need. You can look up just what you want to do, when you want to. He provides a cd for tutorials too.

If you are using PS7, then this book ought to be available cheap as second hand, or as remaindered stock. Even if you upgrade to CS2, then you can use help to learn how to use the new features, or if you were hooked like I spend some more money for Mr Evening's benefit!

LEt's face it there are tons of digital and PhotoShop books out there for purchase. Martin's book is a very good one. At any rate look for used book bargains before paying retail. The technology is so transient that this years or last years hot titles will be replaced by newer ones. I never purchase new.

George DeWolfes book is a pretty fair book if you start with digital capture. I purchased that one for $12 instead of the retail of $39. This title also has an optional software package which boosts the cost to about $120. I haven't found that discounted but you never know.

Good luck,

Don Bryant

[amphoto]

Hey Henry, take a look at all the free videos Russell Brown (an Adobe uberguru) has on his website (www.russellbrown.com). You'll learn pretty much all you need from looking at these in a couple of hours than you will wading through those 300+ page books for the next 25 years. In particular, look at his video on non-destructive dodging and burning using a soft-light layer blend: http://av.adobe.com/russellbrown/SoftDodgeSM.mov

[Joe Lipka]

Whenever somebody mentions Russell Preston Brown, I pile on and say, he is about the best there is.

Much learning from his site.

[DOYLE THOMAS]

Burn and Dodge:
Try this,
Layers--new--layer--mode--overlay
check the box for fill with overlay netural color (50% gray)
on that new layer use the paint brush at low opacty, black to burn and white to dodge. Works great

Doyle

[Jeremy]

Burn and Dodge:
Layers--new--layer--mode--overlay
check the box for fill with overlay netural color (50% gray)
on that new layer use the paint brush at low opacty, black to burn and white to dodge.

I do the same thing, Doyle, but use Mode: Soft Light instead of Overlay.