Recent content by snapy

I agree. Photoshop all the way if you can. Corel Paintshop Pro X4 is meant to be ok but I haven't tried it personally, just going on others recommendations.

Green and blue screens are both used, the general trend is towards green these days as people wear less green than blue! (meaning you don't key out someones blue jeans) Try to back light your subject as that will give you a more defined outline. Use the smoothest sheet you can (as in uncreased...

I'd be amazed if you couldn't calibrate any laptop, after all it is still essentially just a small computer with a screen plugged in...

Post production? Add a load of saturation and a few high pass layers. Maybe mess with the colour balance a bit.

Depends what you want to do. IMO most things can be done with PS6! The new features are nice in CS5 but not essential. Like swanseamale says you will need to convert RAW with something else (try Irfan View) but basic colour correction should work fine

You dont need an adjustment layer you can just create a mask on that layer. Select layer, create a mask (circle icon with a plus under the masks tab), use color range to select black background and adjust fuzzyness until you are happy (you can paint by hand with the brush tool too if needs be)...

I used the burn tool to get rid of the haze and added a brightness layer and a little vibrance. May have got a little carried away with the cubs.

It really depends what kind of feel you are going for but generally I find colour correction does wonders for my shots. Set your black and white points at the very least, try playing with the vibrance and saturation (usually you want to up the vibrance and lower the saturation a touch to...

In PS Crop Add High Pass sharpen layer Cross process with curves layer Up vibrance down saturation Up brightness down contrast Tiny up of exposure Dodge tool around face a little to lighten Add a massive vignette

I agree with Alan, shot into the light imo. Looks like they have also done some post. I'd guess at using curves in PS, setting the black point and pulling the white point in to make it more yellow or pulling the blue down to make it more yellow. Greens have also been pushed up a bit and pulled...

Easy in Photoshop, just turn up the blues in curves / colour balance. Sorry I don't know any cheap / free editing packages as I just use PS. If you post it here though I'm sure someone / me if I'm online at the time would be happy to do it for you.

Might also be worth having a play around with the lighting effects in photoshop to make the lighting look more natural on the baby.

You could also have a play around with the lens flare effect in Photoshop, lots of different flares in there.

If you can back light the model you should be able to get a halo of light around her which will make getting your selection edges much easier in PS. As Swanseamale said, expose for the background and don't worry about front lighting the subject. You ought to get a pretty good silhouette in...

Sorry, just realised you were asking more than just how to get a more summery look. It looks like he has upped the blacks, added a vignette and messed with the curves a little for (as you say) slight cross process effect.