Ever take a nice outdoor photo or landscape and wonder, “Gee what happened to that nice blue sky there was on that day?”  Well, a lot of time depending on the direction of the light and your exposure, the sky will become blown out.  You might lose a lot of cloud detail, and a lot of the deep blue color you remembered from that day.  Check out this quick and easy Photoshop technique using simple selections and an addition sky images, for “digital Photoshoptic surgery”.

Blown out skies ruin a lot of good photos – don’t worry, they’re very easy to fix in Photoshop in under 5 minutes.

The dodge tool set to “highlights” is mind blowingly helpful when it comes to shooting white seamless, or objects over white.  It’s always better to get it right in the camera or in the studio, but sometimes that doesn’t always happen. Here is an older Photoshop tutorial I thought I’d resurrect from the dead today.  It shows you how you can quickly and easily clean up your photos shot over white or light gray by using the dodge tool in Adobe Photoshop. This allows you to avoid having to tweak levels, make an actual selection or use masking.

Here the Miz shows us how to conduct “Photoshoptic Surgery” on an image of a tractor with some dull/flat colors. Here we learn how to use curves and the photo filter option to really bring out the colors and saturation in Photoshop.

Here’s my first impression on flick panning, a new feature added to CS4.  When you click, drag, and release, the image glides and slides all over the place.  ME NO LIKEY OKAY!?

I found the answer already, after I recorded the screencast, of course. It’s so easy – just go to: Edit->Preferences->General and then uncheck “Enable Flick Panning”

When you’re making a quick selection in Photoshop, a lot of times you will realize that because you were feeling so lazy the selection really came out like crap.  The edges are jagged and fringed, and basically look like crap compared to if you had actually used the pen tool and done it the right way in the first place   Either way, sometimes you just feel like being lazy.  This method show how to defringe a fringy edged image.  The Miz’s photoshop video tutorials are always a great resource to all photographers, graphic designers, and Photoshop users alike.

Adobe Photoshop video tutorial by Robert Mizerek

Here Bob show how to create a unique layout with simple square shapes in Photoshop.  Clipping group is something I had never even heard of until I watched this tutorial.  I really like how non-destructive the editing is with these methods.  Everything Bob does, he does it in ways where he can easily modify it without having to go backwards in the history tab. Overall this is a really cool effect that you can easily tweak the template to your own style or personal preference.

Adobe Photoshop video tutorial by Robert Mizerek

Did you ever wonder how to make realistic water reflections?  Sure, there are filters that will do this for you.  Flaming Pear makes the flood filter which is another way to achieve this.  Filter Forge is another.  Here Bob illustrates how to create this look from scratch in Photoshop with an ultra realistic water ripples effect.  Best of all, it costs you nothing but your time (only about 5-10 minutes).  The Miz’s photoshop video tutorials are always a great resource to all photographers, graphic designers, and Photoshop users alike.

Adobe Photoshop video tutorial by Robert Mizerek

A fast and simple video tutorial by Robert Mizerek on how to create an action in Photoshop.  Here you will learn how to create an action for saturation and lab color conversion.  Bob’s photoshop video tutorials are always a great resource to all photographers, graphic designers, and Photoshop users alike.

Author: Robert Mizerek

A quick Photoshop video tutorial by Robert Mizerek on how to creative a retro photo frame (polaroid style) 3d effect.  Bob’s photoshop video tutorials are always a great resource to all photographers, graphic designers, and Photoshop users alike.

A treat for Friday (TGIF)
Author: Robert Mizerek

Tutorial by Robert Mizerek

This is yet another advanced yet easy to follow Photoshop tutorial by Robert Mizerek.  He has passed away a little over a year ago, but his name will live on through his work.  In the near future I plan on re-posting all of his tutorials that were once a great resource to all photographers, graphic designers, and Photoshop users alike.