Level: Beginner
Duration: Over 3 hours of video tutorial.
Downloadable: Yes.
“Getting the POP” is the perfect beginners jump start into photo editing. It’s perfect for those doing the workshop circuit to improve their photography, or those that just want the final image to look a little better then what the camera produces. It doesn’t matter if you haven’t edited a photo in your life, the techniques and principals taught will set you on the right track for anything that you photograph.
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Because this is aimed at beginners we have a great cross section of techniques suited for the types of things you’ll most likely be shooting, spanning most of the photography genres. The topics we’ll be discussing and demonstrating are:
- Software
- Landscapes / Seascapes / Cityscapes
- Portraits & Street Scenes
- Editing techniques including: contrast, sharpening, layers, masks, curves, cloning, skin smoothing
- Effects
- Lens correction
You’ll be learning all of this through countless examples. Along the way we’ll point out common problems, and how to fix them.
Getting the POP is all about the philosophy of photo post processing. If you understand the thought process behind it you’ll be able to edit photos no matter what software you have.
