Photoshop Black and White Lab Method

There are many ways you will read about to convert a colour digital image to Black and White, there is the lazy way of just performing a de-saturation or just selecting Mode and Grey scale, I use a method called the Lab technique, there are several steps to perform, but I feel that I have more control over the final image.

First step is to open up your colour image in Photoshop, open up the path dialog, Window > Paths

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Isolation over White with Photoshop

We have been asked by several people how-to do a Photoshop Isolation over white effect, to help stop QA rejections for stray Isolation

We took this image in a studio with a set of cheap studio lights from EBay, the backdrop was just a king-sized white flat sheet, hanging from the wall and draped over a chair

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Make Money From Your Snapshots!

That has got your attention, you often see these headlines in the popular press and photography magazines, reading these articles make it sound so easy, everyone loves your images so just upload your snaps and wait for the money to roll in?

What these articles fail to tell you is that not many Photographers earn a living contributing to stock imaging sites, so what about just supplementing your income with earnings from your snaps?

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Shooting Big Cats in the Garden

Being in the United Kingdom when I say “I will be going for one days shooting of the Big the Cats in the garden”, I do get some funny responses, until I explain that the shooting is only with a camera and the garden is the English county of Kent which is know as the “Garden of England”, the Big Cats are also protected from harm.

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