Digital Diversity

If you have read the very first post I made here at Digital Diversity you will know why I bought my Panasonic FZ28. I did it because I wanted more out of a camera than my little Canon Ixus 75 could give me. More zoom, more control and better quality images. Well its happened again. I hit that roof where my camera was slowing me down.

Dont get me wrong, the Panasonic FZ28 is a great super zoom bridge camera that can give you some great images but it does have its limits. For example, in low light it really did suffer, I couldn’t shoot in rapid burst while using RAW files, The dynamic range was a bit limited which led to easily blown highlights and so on

Because of this I started to look a bit more into DSLR’s. I was already aware of their advantages from an image quality point of view but I needed to learn more about lens quality, prices and what type of DSLR would sustain my needs.

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In this third instalment of my Portrait re-touching Photoshop tutorials I will be talking about altering the hair. Hair is a big part of some ones over all look and simply changing the colour can give big impact to your photographs.

This tutorial will cover 2 areas. The first is removing stray hairs from around the head and face. The second is changing the colour.

For this tutorial I recommend you have an understanding of the following. Each subject is linked to the appropriate Photoshop tutorial
• Layers and Masks
• Adjustment layers
• Hue / Saturation adjustment layers
• Cloning and healing

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Stock Photographs and Images used to cost a lot of money. If you wanted to buy the rights to use an image for commercial means then you had to pay out. As a graphic designer it would mean charging your client a lot of money to cover the cost. As a Photographer it meant your images would have to be of the highest quality to qualify. Companies would invest a lot of money in building up an image library.

Times have changed a lot and a new image stock site type arrived on the scene. These are known as Micro Stock sites. No longer would an image cost you hundreds of pounds or dollars to purchase. It would now cost you just a few pounds depending on the image size and license type you required. Their images are supplied from both professionals and amatures alike giving the customer a huge selection of images to choose from.
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