Today I noticed that my tablet is a bit worn-out. Funny thing is that almost all scratches are matching the most used screen controls. So I made small experiment: I took a photo of the tablet, increased contrast in sensitive area and added a layer with screenshot from Lightroom which is (together with Photoshop) my probably most used graphic application. And as you can see on the picture, it matches perfectly ;-)
I just bought new prime lens for my Pentax camera. It's Sigma 50mm f1.4 and I was surprised by the image quality and smooth bokeh. I took some sample pictures, you can find them below. There seems to be some visible aberration (on the picture with guitar), but this can be fixed in post process. Overall it's not so bad, what do you think?
I just wonder why editors want to spend extra money on pictures that can be very easily captured by themselves? Anyway, I'm glad they bought it :-)
I just added few HDR images I made this weekend to my web gallery: http://www.retouch.cz/index.php?q=photos
Just finished another photo retouching for Pavol Bigos (www.bigi.sk) who took this nice picture.
Adobe recently released for public new Beta version of Lightroom 3.0. Even if on the first sight it looks pretty much the same as the older 2.x version, there are quite a few new things that were improved.
First thing you will probably notice is the improved Import dialog, now it’s more intuitive and user friendly. You can toggle between two modes, with and without thumbnails. Also it is possible to easily apply selected Develop settings for all photos during Import.You can download the new Lightroom 3.0 Beta here.
I was recently asked by Czech wedding magazine to change for them one nice wedding photo (taken by very good wedding photographer Pavol Bigos) to winter theme as the whole issue was about winter weddings.
The original photo had quite a few of grass straws in the bottom so first thing was to remove them in Photoshop. Then I went trough my own photo gallery and selected winter pictures with nice snow in the background and foreground. After that I started to mask the groom and bride carefully. I used two or three foreground layers for the snowdrift hiding the shoes. Next step was to blend different background pictures together and do the necessary painting to blend all pictures together. It was also important to properly adjust colors, as this is a winter image I preferred cold colors. For final color/tone adjustments I usually use Lightroom where I import the image and do the final touch. Hope you like it ;-)
