June-July Round-Up of Favourite Tutorials

It is sometimes hard to keep up with all the new posts over the months especially for new visitors or people in a hurry, so here is the round up of the most viewed and best rated Tutorials of June and July 2010 on Scott Photographics. In order of most views:

1. Lomo-Effect on Photographs in Photoshop

The Lomo-Effect on photographs is used frequently to provide an old photograph feel or simply a colour manipulation.

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Lomo-Effect on Photographs in Photoshop

2. Creating Light Leaks on Photographs using GIMP

Light Leaks are a product of film in the camera being exposed due to a hole/gap in the cameras body letting in light. It is sometimes used aesthetically in photographs creating a sense of vividness or soft blurs of colour – usually red.

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Creating Light Leaks on Photographs in GIMP

3. How to make a Photograph Lomographic in GIMP

Lomography is most commonly recognised in old film photographs and is used aesthetically in photographs. I will show you a quick process to achieve this ‘Lomo’ effect in GIMP!

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How to make a photograph Lomographic in GIMP

4. How to make a Hockney style Photograph in GIMP

David Hockney is known for his unusual panoramas that are made up of differently scaled and angled photos. To produce the ‘Hockney’ effect it is best done with multiple photographs that can be arranged later, but you can have a single photograph that you’d like to make into a multiple imaged panorama – with the use of GIMP!

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How to make a Hockney style Photograph in GIMP

5. Making Skies dramatic in GIMP

An easy way to make ordinary white cloud on blue skies into dramatic significant parts of your photographs. This is a very simple trick to do in GIMP and the results are great!

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Making Skies dramatic in GIMP

6. Turning a Photograph into a Polka Dot Image in GIMP

This a very quick simple tutorial and a bit of fun! I have made a range of different sizes – 50px, 75px, 100px, 150px patterns so you can easily apply the effect in seconds. I suggest you try some masking of layers as well to experiment with design .

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Turning a Photograph into a Polka Dot Image in GIMP

7. Making Photographs Black & White in GIMP

Black and White images have been neglected ever since the introduction of colour into film photography, due to the fact that colour is ‘best’ and what we see (colour) is the true beauty of a scene/object. As this is the case now, whenever black and white images are created it is perceived as a kind of artistic aesthetic that the photographer has wanted to achieve and considering colour is the norm now, this photograph is viewed in a different light and more of an artists creation rather than the representative.

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Making Photographs Black & White in GIMP

8. How to make a basic watermark in Photoshop

Watermarks are sometimes very annoying especially if large and so distracting that it draws the view away never to return. I’ll help you make a watermark basic enough to not discourage your audience yet ugly enough to stop takers.

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How to make a basic watermark in Photoshop

Here is the most viewed Shot of the Day of June/July 2010:

Shot of the Day #56

I attempted a ‘HDR’ like image in Photoshop’s Camera Raw and it turned out to be very handy in manipulating my photograph into a better quality image than I would have produced if I used Photomatix (in my opinion)!

Kings Canyon

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