Digital Darkroom Tag

Hopefully you’ll have already read the Simple Glass Still Life post on the blog. If you haven’t, you might want to, or this one will make very little sense. Following that post there were several requests for a more detailed step-by-step description of the Photoshop process used to create the digitally manipulated images, so that’s what this is. Don’t say we never listen!

Hopefully you’ll have already read the Simple Glass Still Life post on the blog. If you haven’t, you might want to, or this one will make very little sense. Following that post there were several requests for a more detailed step-by-step description of the Photoshop process used to create the digitally manipulated images, so that’s what this is. Don’t say we never listen!

Hopefully you’ll have already read the Simple Glass Still Life post on the blog. If you haven’t, you might want to, or this one will make very little sense. Following that post there were several requests for a more detailed step-by-step description of the Photoshop process used to create the digitally manipulated images, so that’s what this is. Don’t say we never listen!

Hopefully you’ll have already read the Simple Glass Still Life post on the blog. If you haven’t, you might want to, or this one will make very little sense. Following that post there were several requests for a more detailed step-by-step description of the Photoshop process used to create the digitally manipulated images, so that’s what this is. Don’t say we never listen!

Unless you’re extremely efficient when it comes to recycling, the chances are that you may have some ideal still-life subject matter at home. Yes, we’re talking glass. I still have some empty glass bottles waiting to be recycled from last Christmas, but I also have a small collection of interesting bottles that I’ve collected over the years for this very purpose. You see, glass bottles and glass, erm, glasses are ideal still life subjects.

When did printers get exciting? Seriously, it used to be the case that a printer was just an unsightly lump of plastic that was tucked away in the corner somewhere and used to print out the odd document and, when the technology allowed it, occasional photographs. The R3000 is the latest A3+ desktop printer from the Epson printer maestros and reflects just how far things have come in the world of home printing. I got to try one out at Epson’s HQ near Hemel Hempstead a full month before its official release.

If you’re a kid, they’re called comics. If you’re a big-kid, they’re called Graphic Novels. Whatever your take on these picture-books, much of the artwork and imagery associated with them is both striking and impressive. A Warehouse Express colleague stumbled across this tutorial online which shows how to turn a photo into a ‘Sin City’ style image in Photoshop. I’m rather impressed by the result – see what you think.

Daniel McMahon is an enthusiastic and talented Photoshop advocate. He’s also a huge movie buff, with his particular genre of choice being B movie horror and sci-fi films. Little surprise, then, that when I asked him to see what he could create using just Photoshop Elements, whatever props he could lay his hands on, and his imagination, he came up with a “Horror Movie Night” poster featuring is own particular brand of macabre artistry. Well, it is nearly Halloween…

This photo-manipulation technique is aimed at achieveing an effect based on the Pop Art of the 1950s and 60s. Rather than the messiness of screen printing and oils, this can all be done cleanly and digitally. You can even keep you pyjamas on if you so choose…

If a picture paints a thousand words, then a video must equate to an entire library. With that in mind, Adobe created a sneek-peak video to show off exactly what this new tool can do. If you’re not already familiar with the “Content Aware Fill” tool and aren’t blown away by this video, then there’s something clearly wrong with you…