I feel like I worked you a little bit hard with last month’s madness so I decided to lighten up this month — with the holiday season upon us — and cover a topic dear to us all : FOOD! Yes, it’s time to look at Photoshop Food Madness! The big surprise is how many non-Photoshop people are out there doing photoshop tutorials about food! Some better than Photoshop people! Pig out over the next four pages with :
- Fixing Blow Outs in Photoshop (Photo Editing Tips for Bloggers)
- The Two Most Important Tools Food Photographers Must Know
- How to Brighten Food Photography with Photoshop Elements
- Food Styling and Photography – Ratatouille in the Making
- Creating Depth Of Field With Filters and Masks
- Artificial Lighting Tips for Food Photography
- Food Photography: Photoshop Editing Tutorial
- Creating A True .EPS File Using Vector Masks
- Basic Photoshop Tips for Food Photography
- How to make syrup text in Photoshop
- Photoshop Before & After: Salmon
- Gingerbread Cookies Text Effect
- How to Photoshop Food
- . . . . and more !
I feel like I worked you a little bit hard with last month’s madness so I decided to lighten up this month — with the holiday season upon us — and cover a topic dear to us all : FOOD! Yes, it’s time to look at Photoshop Food Madness! The big surprise is how many non-Photoshop people are out there doing photoshop tutorials about food! Some better than Photoshop people! Pig out over the next four pages with :
- Fixing Blow Outs in Photoshop (Photo Editing Tips for Bloggers)
- The Two Most Important Tools Food Photographers Must Know
- How to Brighten Food Photography with Photoshop Elements
- Food Styling and Photography – Ratatouille in the Making
- Creating Depth Of Field With Filters and Masks
- Artificial Lighting Tips for Food Photography
- Food Photography: Photoshop Editing Tutorial
- Creating A True .EPS File Using Vector Masks
- Basic Photoshop Tips for Food Photography
- How to make syrup text in Photoshop
- Photoshop Before & After: Salmon
- Gingerbread Cookies Text Effect
- How to Photoshop Food
- . . . . and more !
Read carefully: any time you’re looking for tutorials, downloadable files, or the likes, there are always pitfalls and evil sites lurking because they know this topic is popular. It’s Photoshop Madness!
Photoshop Before & After: Salmon
Nicole S. Young is a full-time photographer and author, with books published through Peachpit Press, eBooks published through Craft&Vision and also some self-published titles. Her photography specialties are food and landscape . . . she writes in this tutorial:
Yesterday I posted some white-balance tips for shooting food photography. In this post I’m going to go through the steps I took to edit the image. The photo used in this post is from the same shoot and is edited identically to the image in the previous post.
Full story : Nicole S. Young – Nicolesyblog.com Click here for: another look
How to Photoshop Food
VERY basic Photoshop skills from Katie at the copper coconut . . . Katie writes :
I use 3 steps pretty much every time I photoshop a picture, especially with my food pictures. Here is a before and after of my Ham and Cheese Crescent Rolls (recipe will be posted soon!). Full story : The Copper Coconut Click here for: another look
The Two Most Important Tools Food Photographers Must Know
The most important job for a food photographer is to make that food pop off the page. Learn two simple photoshop tools to make your subjects stand out. http://weeattogether.com Full story : We Eat Together Click here for: another look
NEXT : Editing Food, Vector Masks and more
Food Photography: Photoshop Editing Tutorial
You may enjoy more video tutorials, but unfortunately (like this one) for the most part, are too fast, too blurry, too far away and have too loud and sometimes rude music. People seem to like to video themselves doing a tutorial without regards to the teaching qualities. Full story : Divine Glowing Health Click here for: another look
Basic Photoshop Tips for Food Photography
“Soupbelly” is a blog about food and photography. I must say, it’s pretty good!
If you have Photoshop, and want a super quick tutorial on how to make a good image more fantastic, follow these steps. Full story : Candy, graphic artist/photographer and SoupBelly Click here for: another look
Creating A True .EPS File Using Vector Masks
In this PS Hero Photoshop tutorial “Hero” will show you how to take an illustration created using Vector Masks in Photoshop, turn it into an Illustrator file with all the associated paths, layers and colors and from there turn it into a true .EPS file. (What’s it about a person who calls himself “hero” but doesn’t show the real name!)
Download the actual file here : pshero_0031.zip Full story : pshero.com Click here for: another look
How to Brighten Food Photography with Photoshop Elements
According to the “sisters” on this web site, they get a lot of questions every week asking what software they use for editing the food photos. They say :
While a good camera and natural lighting can take you pretty far, there are a few tools that help us take our photos from good to GREAT. As we have been testing Photoshop Elements the past few months, one of our favorite tools is the brightness adjustment. We’ll take you step-by-step and show you exactly how we do it. Full story : “Steph” for Six Sister Stuff dot com Click here for: another look
NEXT : Artificial Lighting, Depth Of Field, and more
Artificial Lighting Tips for Food Photography
Whether food photography, portrait photography, or whatever in the whole wide world photography, NATURAL LIGHT RULES.
there is no comparison to the beauty you get with a good camera, a great photographer, and perfect natural light from the sun. Full story : pinchofyum.com Click here for: another look
Creating Depth Of Field With Filters and Masks
If you’re looking to create a shallow depth of field in post production today food blogger Danny Jauregui from Food Bloggers Unite! shares some tips on how to create this effect.
Food photography is currently dominated by rich images of mouth-watering food within blurry and atmospheric backgrounds. Shallow depth of field is all the rage, and in this tutorial you’ll see how to re-create this effect using PhotoShop filters and masks. Full story : digital-photography-school.com Click here for: another look
Food Styling and Photography – Ratatouille in the Making
The author of this article writes :
Do you ever feel like a kid who’s playing with a favorite toy? A toy that you’ve had for a long time ………. then someone shows you new things it does, things that you never dreamed of. Really cool things that almost make it a new toy, but with all the familiarity of the old favorite. That’s exactly how Scott and I have been feeling since returning from our adventure in New York where I studied French cooking and he took a workshop on food styling and photography.
Beware, this site employs various stalker links and screen spam – Full story : The Cafe Sucre Farine Click here for: another look
Tips for food photography
Addicted to “Yum” is short on words. This no-nonsense list is pretty good.
She calls herself a “major food nerd extraordinaire, loves anything food, even grocery shopping!” Full story : addicted2yum Click here for: another look
NEXT : Let’s finish up with honey, cookies and cake!
Gingerbread Cookies Text Effect
Textuts posted this one and it’s really not too bad!
This tutorial will explain how to bake make a delicious gingerbread cookies inspired text effect, using layer styles, some filters, and a couple of other simple elements. Ready? Full story : Text Tuts Click here for: another look
How to make syrup text in Photoshop
This is the shortest Photoshop tutorial I’ve ever seen.
It relies on a style from “WOW Styles” and I don’t know if you have that set of styles or not. Look for a “clear plastic” style in your collection. Full story : Photoshop Creative UK Blog Click here for: another look
Easy Tips for Photographing Food
We liked this one simply for the luscious chocolate … Jennifer Holmes writes :
I had been planning on baking a new dessert to photograph for this tutorial but since returning back home there’s been so many other things to catch up on that I haven’t had time, so instead I cheated and bought this one little piece of cake from the Fresh Market here in Williamsburg. Full story : Jennifer Holmes, Dear Lillie. Click here for: another look
Fixing Blow Outs in Photoshop (Photo Editing Tips for Bloggers)
Fixing exposure is important, but it also creates (or encourages) some lighting problem—blow outs.
“Blow outs” is a slang term that refers to an area where whites and exposure are so bright, they’ve literally been “blown out” and no data is shown (just white, bright light). Sometimes this looks pretty cool and you might be aiming for an over-exposed effect, but most of the time (as with visible, useful food photography), it poses a problem. Why? Full story : Clearly Delicious Food Blog Click here for: another look
Color, color, color, color… CORRECTION
CORRECTION : Got a nice note from Timothy Hand at Sessions.edu letting us know that one of our links had gone dead. Now we always appreciate getting these alerts because with over 100,000 links in the Design Center it’s just a little tough to keep up with them all.
Our April, 2006 issue of DTG, you may remember, was all about COLOR, as is all of our spring issues. In 2006 we introduced Sessions’ special “Color Calculator” … in a tip from DTG reader Mim McConnell at Shelter Cove Publishing. Tim wrote they have revamped the program and moved it to a new page. So here’ya go : www.sessions.edu/color-calculator The April 2006 issue of Photoshop Madness sheltercovepublishing.com
TIP: age-old rule of the web: never kill a link! Always insert a redirect!
Don’t let Photoshop Madness get you down!
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