Breaking Photographer’s Block

http://photocritic.org/break-photographers-block

Ten Ways to Break Photographer’s Block and find inspiration to get outside (or inside) and photograph something!

Photocritic.org blog post from Hage Jan Kamps, author of Macro Photography Photo Workshop
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Adobe PSE6: Changing Skin Tones

Here’s a good one I found on Focal Press’s YouTube space. It’s a video showing a technique from Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 Maximum Performance by Mark Galer. He shows how to use a Hue/Saturation layer to target just the sunburned color on a man’s face: he uses the eyedropper to select the color he wants to change, then cranks the saturation all the way up to see all the colors the eyedropper has picked up. Then he shows some tweaks on how to get rid of some of those tones to hone in on the specific color he wants to change.

I believe this one will work in Photoshop as well.

Check out FocalOnline on YouTube for more videos from its excellent line of photography books (Light: Science and Magic, etc.).

Compare Book Prices

I love books and they’re one of my primary sources of learning; however, photo and computer books can be expensive. When I want to find a deal, I often search on BestBookDeal.com. Enter what you’re looking for and the site returns a pretty good-sized list of new and used copies, shipping cost, and which is the best deal overall (cost + shipping). BTW, it’s an international list at that. The link posted here is a direct link to the site: I’m not an affiliate or associated with them in any way. Happy searching!