Tag Archive: step-by-step

New Online Photoshop Course is Live

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Lee Varis shares details about his new online Photoshop Course

21st Century Lighting Techniques +

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Lee Varis shares two recordings of live sessions he did at the PMA show in January on lighting techniques and portrait retouching.

Digital Projector as Glamour Spotlight

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Lee Varis describes how to use a digital projector to simulate a focussing fresnel spotlight

Advanced Hair Masking Technique in Photoshop

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Lee Varis shows an advanced hair masking technique that DOES NOT rely on the Refine Edge dialog in Photoshop CS6. Instead, this unique approach utilizes the Hard Light blend mode with a subject shot on a gray background.

Classic Hollywood B&W Glamour

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Lee Varis shows how to convert a color photo into the kind of classic B&W of the Hollywood glamour portraits of the 1930′s. This is the Photoshop post processing part of his Classic B&W Portrait workshop at the California Photo Festival.