Photoshop tutorial | Photojoiner

Photojoiner is a technique first performed by David Hockney.

Here's how I made the picture below.

1. Open your picture you want to use, and a new blank A4 document.

2. Select a random part of the picture and copy it

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3. The paste this into your new document.

4. Repeat this step several times until you have the desired effect. Here's mine.

How to create flame photography with smoke - Photography Tutorial

Smoke photography is something I love doing, today I took a different spin on it and using the simple set up you can see here created some amazing shots.

After opening the photographs in photoshop I cropped them appropriately and used levels to completely darken the background. Ensuring I used the red channel to lighten the flame.

I then lightened the blue channel slightly in curves, and improved the contrast overall as a photo.

Here's one of the original images. 

And heres the results..

Photoshop Tutorial - Selective Colour.

Selective colour is a really nice technique to be able to master. It gives the photograph the ability to have a main focal point, and you get to chose the focal point.

Step 1. Open the photograph you want to use in photoshop

Step 2. Select the object you want to remain in colour using the selection tools.

Step 3. Use Standard Mode (Q) to adjust the selection like you can see I have done here.

Step 4. Press Q again to get back to normal selection, now you'll want to feather this by about 5 pixels. Select > Modify > Feather 

Step 5. Now invert your selection (CMD/CTRL + Shift + I). 

Step 6. Go to Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation

Step 7. Drag the saturation slider all the way down (Although I like to leave a tiny bit of colour in, so you can adjust this as you wish)

Press Enter and here is the finished product!!