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1. This tutorial will go through the making of my image “Too much TV”. I named this image after the old wives tale that watching to much TV will turn your eyes square.

This tutorial can be done in both Photoshop Creative sweat (CS) and Photoshop Elements

It will cover colour correcting the image, reshaping the eyes with the Liquify tool and adjusting the light on the subject With adjustment layers and textures.

You will want to already know how to do the following:

• Layers and Masks
• Cloning
• Adjustment layers (related tutorials here and here)
•  Layer blend modes

Finding an image to create this from was fairly tricky. There are plenty of images out there of people staring at the camera with eyes wide open but that wasn’t enough for the idea I had in my head. I needed a subject that not only was staring but had an almost transfixed expression on their face.

I searched several free stock sites to find the image and did eventually get exactly what I was after.

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A while back I wrote an article about my first time going to the zoo with the intent to take decent pictures, rather than just on a day out with friends. That was back when I was using a superzoom bridge camera (Panasonic FZ28). I came away from that trip with some images I was very pleased with and was surprised at the decent quality shots such a camera allowed me to get over the likes of a cheaper compact like my Ixus 75.

I have been back to the zoo since then with my DSLR (Canon 500D) and thought it would be good to share my thoughts on what advantages I had this time round with a more advanced camera.
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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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