Blog - category: Tutorials
Welcome to my blog. I write about photography and creative stuff in general, share news about my art and tutorials on photoshop and photography .
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Photoshop Tutorial: ShadowsIn this short tutorial I will talk a bit about how I work with shadows in my photo montages. I find realistic shadows one of the hardest parts of montages to pull off. It is also one of the most important parts to make a convincing montage.[..]Read full story |
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Photoshop Tutorial: How I madeToday I am going to write about my picture “Passage” and how I created it using some of the different techniques I’ve discussed in earlier blog posts.[..]Read full story |
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Photoshop: Layer Masks Tutorial - Do Awesome Stuff With MasksIn this tutorial I will guide you through a couple of ways that you can work with Layer Masks in Photoshop. Layer Masks are really powerful tools when doing Photo-montages. Basically, they let you non-destructively hide parts of a layer. Unlike the eraser tool you can always revert your changes and paint back previously hidden parts. They work with both normal layers and adjustment layers. I am going to demonstrate this by placing this light post over another background.[..]Read full story |
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Photoshop: Wrapping a texture around an object with DisplaceIn this tutorial I will show how to wrap a texture around an object using the displace filter in Photoshop. This is a really cool technique I just recently learned and used in my picture “Rage”.[..]Read full story |
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Photoshop Quick-tip: Use Feather for Better MontagesOne of the most important aspects of making a convincing photo-montage is to get natural looking edges when placing a cut-out object over a background. In this short tutorial I write about how I use feather in Photoshop to achieve this.[..]Read full story |
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Photoshop: Depth and PerspectiveI find getting the perspective and depth in a montage quite hard, especially if there are floating, flying or hovering objects involved. It is also one of the key aspects of making a convincing montage. This is something I have been working a lot with and today I thought I would share some insights.[..]Read full story |
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Photoshop Cheat: The darken blend modeThis is a quick cheat I use sometimes in my images, most recently in “For You”. [..]Read full story |
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Photoshop: Create sunbeamsThis is a simple trick for adding sunbeams to a picture in photoshop. I used it recently in my image “Touch”. [..]Read full story |
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Photoshop: Create reflections in waterToday I would like to share a quick and simple Photoshop technique to create reflections in water I used when creating my picture ”New Dawn”.[..]Read full story |
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How To: My Lighting setup for MontagesI often use a very simple lighting setup when photographing source files for my montages in studio that I am going to discuss in detail here. This setup is what I default to when I don’t have a special lighting idea in mind.[..]Read full story |
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New ImagesRight now I’m working on two new series of images, “Moments” and “Solitaire”. The images above are the first in the “Solitaire” series which is a continuation of the “Reality Rearranged” series... Read more |
Mirror MagazineMy work is featured in the latest issue of Mirror Magazine (Spain). The magazine can be viewed online as a PDF or downloaded from the app-store to your iDevice... Read more |
Site rebuilding and medalsI have changed the site into a “responsive” design that should scale both layout and type to fit the screen better. This makes the site easier to view on devices with small screens, for example smart phones. I have not yet fully tested the design on different browsers and devices, so there might be some bugs in the beginning. Bear with me... Read more |