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Redigera effektivt i Photoshop –
arbeta smartare, inte hårdare

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Redigera effektivt i Photoshop –
arbeta smartare, inte hårdare

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Du har en sociala mediapost som ska ut igår,

en kampanjbild som behöver justeras nu och en kollega som skickar en ny logotyp du måste byta ut – igen. Photoshop är en del av din vardag, men ibland känns det som att varje liten justering tar orimligt lång tid.

Tänk om du istället kunde snabba upp ditt arbetsflöde, slippa onödiga repetitiva moment och få mer tid över till det kreativa? Med smarta arbetssätt, AI-funktioner och icke-förstörande redigering kan du jobba både snabbare och smidigare – utan att tumma på kvaliteten. Eller på din ork. Här är några av mina supertips för att…

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ARBETA EFFEKTIVT I PHOTOSHOP

1 | VAR SMART MED SMARTA OBJEKT
Om du inte redan använder det, kommer du snart att börja – det kommer revolutionera ditt arbetsflöde. Genom att konvertera lager till smarta objekt jobbar du icke-förstörande så att du alltid gå tillbaka och justera i efterhand. Och alltid bibehålla kvaliteten. Se videon för att förstå varför och hur.

2 | NYTTJA BIBLIOTEKET
Har du projekt där du ofta återanvänder ett teckenformat, en viss logo, färger, bilder eller en massa annat? Då är ditt Bibliotek mästerligt för dig där du sparar just sånt. Bibliotek sparas i ditt Creative Cloud så att du alltid kan komma åt dom. Och du kan samarbeta kring dom med ditt team eller med kunder så att ni alla använder samma element. Dessutom kan du använda samma bibliotek i andra program såsom InDesign. Win, Win, Win, Win.

3 | BIBLIOTEKSLÄNKAT SMART OBJEKT
Du har flera olika dokument som använder ett och samma element från biblioteket, som en logo. Men så vill du ändra på något i den… säg att färgen blivit omdesignad. Behöver du då sitta och byta ut varje logo i varje dokument för hand då? Nejdå. Har du använt ett bibliotekslänkat smart objekt så byts ut allt automatiskt om du ändrar på ett!

4 | ÅTERANVÄND REDIGERINGAR
Spara dina justeringar som förinställningar i Camera Raw eller för justeringslager, skapa egna färgrutor, använd stilinställningar för lager, skapa funktionsmakron… Sätten är många så att du slipper göra om samma arbete gång på gång.

5 | LÅT AI GÖRA DINA MARKERINGAR
Låt Photoshop göra grovjobbet! Skapa bättre maskeringar och montage genom att dra nytta av Photoshops AI-funktioner. Med verktyg som Objektmarkering och Välj motiv får du snabba och exakta markeringar, och Markera och maskera hjälper dig att finjustera kanterna.

6 | AUTOMATISERAD EXPORT
Exportera bilder smart – oavsett om du jobbar med en eller hundra filer. När du redigerat klart kan du exportera flera filer samtidigt i rätt format och upplösning, utan att behöva spara om varje bild manuellt.

Och det här är bara början! Det finns massor av små justeringar som kan göra stor skillnad i ditt dagliga Photoshop-arbete. Hur många av dessa använder du redan?

Var det några av de här supertipsen du känner att du inte hade riktigt kläm på?

Om du vill kan du då ta min hand och följa med mig in i min videokurs “ARBETA EFFEKTIVT I PHOTOSHOP” PÅ MODERSKEPPET. Här delar jag med mig av mina bästa tips för att jobba smart, smidigt och dra nytta av Photoshops intelligenta verktyg. Där lär du dig:

  • Jobba icke-förstörande med smarta objekt & smarta filter – Justera och redigera utan att förlora originalbilden.
  • Styr ljus i din bild med justeringslager – Lär dig använda Nivåer och Kurvor för precision och full kontroll över ljus och kontrast.
  • Korrigera färgtoner – Jobba snabbt med Fotofilter och Nyans och Mättnad, eller styr över flera färger med Färgbalans, med stor precision med Kurvor och Nivåer, eller med specifika färger med Övertoningskarta.
  • Byta färger snabbt och exakt – Byt ut en färg med Nyans och Mättnad eller ändra till en specifik färgkod med hjälp av Färgprov och Info-panelen.
  • Skapa kreativa effekter med blandningslägen – Kombinera lager på spännande sätt för att skapa unika visuella uttryck..
  • Markera snabbt med AI-verktyg – Använd Objektmarkering och Välj motiv för att skapa precisa urklipp och montage utan tidskrävande manuellt arbete.
  • Förbättra med Markera och maskera – Markeringar är sällan perfekta från början. Bland alla inställningar visar jag dig de du oftast behöver använda och hur för att markera både för kropp och hår fint.
  • Lös svårigheter med montage – Få tips kring olika problem som orsakar att en maskerad bild inte går ihop med bakgrunden. Jag visar hur du fixar fel färger, skärpedjup och ljusriktning.
  • Låt AI göra jobbet – Skapa något från ingenting när du vill ta bort något, byta himmel, skapa helt nya delar och utöka din bild med generativ fyllning och expansion.
  • Retuschera bilder effektivt – Använd Neurala filtret för hudutjämning och klassiska verktyg som Lagningspenseln för snabba men naturliga resultat.
  • Skapa snygga texteffekter och stylade objekt – Använd Lagerstilar för att enkelt lägga till skuggor, glöd och andra visuella effekter.
  • Gör mockups med rätt perspektiv – Lär dig hur du applicerar din design på olika ytor med perfekt perspektiv.
  • Spara och återanvänd justeringar – Effektivisera ditt arbete genom att skapa och använda förinställningar för Camera Raw, justeringar, färgrutor och Stil.
  • Arbeta smart med Biblioteket – Spara och organisera logotyper, färger, grafik och andra designelement i Creative Cloud för snabb åtkomst och samarbete.
  • Uppdatera element automatiskt – Använd bibliotekslänkade smarta objekt så att ändringar i en fil automatiskt uppdateras i alla dokument där den används.
  • Effektivisera med funktionsmakron – Spela in och automatisera återkommande uppgifter för att spara både tid och energi.
  • Batchredigera många bilder samtidigt – Redigera flera filer samtidigt med Gruppera.
  • Jobba med ritytor – Skapa flera versioner av en design i samma dokument och redigera dem effektivt.
  • Samarbeta & dela smidigt – Bjud in andra att kommentera eller redigera direkt i Photoshop, perfekt för team och kundprojekt.
  • Exportera filer på rätt sätt – Lär dig hur du sparar masterfiler med lager, filer utan lager för tex kund, optimerar bilder för webben och använder snabbexport för att spara tid.
  • Exportera många bilder på en gång – Använd Bildbearbetaren för att exportera flera filer samtidigt.




Kursen finns här hos Moderskeppet: Arbeta effektivare i Photoshop | Moderskeppet



~Låt oss prata vidare~

Hur ser din Photoshop-process ut idag?
Har du någon favoritmetod som sparar dig tid?
Berätta i en kommentar nedan!

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Våga använd AI i Photoshop –
skapa smartare, snabbare och mer kreativt

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Våga använd AI i Photoshop –
skapa smartare, snabbare och mer kreativt

~Föreställ dig att du enkelt kan skapa helt nya objekt i en bild,
byta bakgrund med några klick eller till och med
låta Photoshop skapa helt nya bilder från ingenting,
bara sådär med några knapptryck!
Eller varför inte helt enkelt snabba på arbetsflödet?
Det låter ju nästan lite för bra för att vara sant, men det kan du ju.
Med AI i Photoshop. ~


 
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Men kanske känner du som jag gjorde i början.

Jag visste att AI öppnade dörrar till nya möjligheter, men tro mig, jag såg på det med stor skepsis. Kanske kändes det för osäkert med allt prat om hur AI kommer påverka framtiden? Eller kanske bara lite… obekvämt? Det var som att jag inte var helt mentalt redo för en ny era. Men jag insåg till slut att det bästa sättet att hantera den känslan var att börja utforska det själv. Förstå vad AI i Photoshop faktiskt kan – och inte kan – göra, så att jag kan ta kvalificerade beslut om att använda det eller ej. Så jag dök in i Photoshops AI-värld med huvudet före och kom ut på andra sidan, inte bara med en ny insikt, utan också med en kurs för Moderskeppet där jag visar hur du kan använda AI som en kraftfull hjälp i ditt bildskapande.

Och vet du? Det var inte alls som jag trodde. Tvärtom känner jag nu att jag har en superkraft att ta till när jag väl behöver den. Så här bjuder jag på mina största egna favoriter ifrån insikterna och kursen. Här är…


 
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MINA 5 BÄSTA TIPS OM AI I PHOTOSHOP


1 | LÅT AI GÖR MARKERINGAR ÅT DIG
Något som kan driva en till vansinne samt sluka ens kära arbetstid är ju att markera saker i Photoshop, tex för att göra lagermasker. Nu är det slut på det! Antingen kan du välja Välj motiv eller Objektmarkeringar och låta AIn göra jobbet åt dig på rekordtid. Ibland behöver du förbättra markeringen lite grann eller hjälpa programmet förstå exakt vad du är ute efter, men här har du en fantastisk hjälp att ta till.



2 | ANVÄND AI SOM IDÉSPRUTA
Ibland står kreativiteten still, så är det bara. Men genom att låta AIn skapa nya bilder till dig kan du få igång hjärnkontoret igen! Skriv in så lite eller så mycket tankar du har kring en bildidé och låt AIn generera (framställa) nya bilder som du sedan kan använda som inspiration för vad du ska skapa härnäst.



3 | TA BORT NÅGOT SOM STÖR MED ETT KLICK
Det finns allt som oftast något i din bild som du inte tycker hör hemma i den. AI kan hjälpa dig ta bort det och samtidigt fylla i ny information så att det inte märks att du tagit bort något. Jag jämför Generativ fyllning och verktyget Ta bort och hur de fungerar i kursen.



4 | HITTA OCH MATCHA ETT TYPSNITT
Du har ser ett supersnyggt typsnitt i en bild och vill så gärna ha samma eller liknande i din egna bild… och AI kan hjälpa dig hitta vilket det är med! Pröva din lycka med “Matcha teckensnitt”.



5 | UTÖKA DIN BILD TILL FORMATET DU ÖNSKAR
Du har säkert varit med om att du ska använda din bild till något och så önskar du att det hade funnits mer av din bild, till exempel så att den passar in som ett omslag, som en post på ett specifikt socialt media, så att texten du vill skriva på får plats eller kanske bara så att kompositionen blir bättre. Med Generativ expansion kan du tala om för Photoshop hur du vill att bildens format ska vara och sedan fyller AIn i det som saknas av bilden! En funktion som känns helt magisk.



Det här är förstås bara ett utdrag av allt AIn kan göra för dig i Photoshop. Oavsett om du är fotograf, designer, bildredigerare, skapar bilder för social media, eller bara är rent nyfiken, kommer dessa verktyg inte bara spara tid – de kommer ge dig nya möjligheter att förverkliga dina visioner. Oavsett om du vill retuschera bilder snabbare, skapa magiska kompositioner eller arbeta mer effektivt, så kan AI hjälpa dig att lyfta ditt bildskapande till nästa nivå. Så våga prova!

 

VILL DU LÄRA DIG MER OM AI I PHOTOSHOP?
För dig som vill och behöver hjälp att komma igång eller med några speciella verktyg så finns min kurs AI i Photoshop till för dig, med tydliga exempel och praktiska case, så att du kan nyttja AIn på bästa sätt.

Det här nedan (och lite till) lär du dig i kursen och kanske hittar du det som hade förändrat just ditt arbetssätt:

  • Skriva genomtänkta text-till-bild-beskrivningar, så kallade promptar
  • Svårigheter som AIn fortfarande har
  • Vad du gör när AIn inte verkar förstå dig
  • Markera automatiskt och gör exakta lagermasker med Objektmarkering och Välj motiv
  • Lägga till objekt i bilden med Generativ fyllning
  • Ta bort objekt med Generativ fyllning och verktyget Ta bort
  • Ta bort och bakgrund och gör en lagermask av den
  • Generera (framställa) nya bakgrunder
  • Ersätta en himmel med naturligt resultat
  • Utöka din bild med Generativ expansion
  • Generera (framställa) en ny bild från ingenting
  • Styr stilen på den nya bilden med Effekter och Referensbilder
  • Skapa liknande bilder som den du redan genererat
  • Förbättra detaljer hos en genererad bild eller bilddel
  • Förstora bilder och behåll kvalitet med Bevara Detaljer 2.0
  • Identifiera och matcha typsnitt från annan bild
  • Se alla AI-funktioner i praktiken med 2 case:
    – Skapa en branding moodboard
    – Skapa en bildserie i samma stil

Och det bästa av allt? AI låter dig vara mer kreativ och snabbfotad än någonsin. Istället för att fastna i detaljer kan du fokusera på din vision och låta tekniken hjälpa dig att förverkliga den.

Kursen finns här hos Moderskeppet: AI i Photoshop | Moderskeppet



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Har du testat AI i Photoshop ännu? Vad tycker du?
Tycker du AI känns otryggt och läskigt eller inspirerande och kul?
Dela gärna dina tankar i kommentarerna!

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Talk at Fotomässan 2015 – ‘THE ROAD TO CREATIVE IMAGES THAT EVOKES EMOTIONS’

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Talk at Fotomässan 2015 – ‘THE ROAD TO CREATIVE IMAGES THAT EVOKES EMOTIONS’

 
 

~How to make your creative images more interesting~

The interest was greater than ever when I walked onto the big stage at Fotomässan Stockholm in November to talk about the road to creative images that evokes emotions, not only showing technique or surface. There were people as far as I could see (< 300) and the energy was amaaazing. Maybe I also got some extra umpf from the little baby inside my growing belly 🙂 Now you can watch the entire talk online (opens in a new window at Moderskeppet)!


artist talk, conceptual photography, creative images, creativity, editing, föreläsning, Fotomässan Stockholm, lectures, speaker, storytelling, tips

Do you feel sometimes that your photos are looking good and are technically great, but they miss that little something extra…?
Do they really tell anything to anyone??
What can you do to make them feel more interesting and evoke more emotions, both for yourself and for your viewers?
And is there a good way to keep that inspiration flowing and not rely on chance?

The best part of it all is not only being able to share my passion and love for creative storytelling with so many people, but also the chats I get to have afterwards individually with you guys. The photo fair is such a great place to meet up with people you’ve only had the opportunity to write to online before, and it was truly awesome that a bunch took my advice from my newsletter and reached out beforehand that they were going to be there. So we decided to meet up and talk about our shared interests and I got to hear a bit about YOUR images and why YOU create. Also, I’m stoked about all the spontaneous chats from all you guys that were inspired by the talk who came by afterwards with so many fantastic questions and thoughts. I hope to meet you all next year again!


I hope you did/will do the challenge I gave you at the end of the speech?! If you did (I already got some fabulous images sent to me from people who did!), I would love to hear about it in the comments below this post and I’d love to give you my feedback.

Watch the talk here (opens in a new window at Moderskeppet):
Please note that it’s in Swedish. Contact me for talks in English.


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Talk at Fotomässan – METHODS FOR CREATIVE IMAGE STORYTELLING

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Talk at Fotomässan – METHODS FOR CREATIVE IMAGE STORYTELLING

Create images with strong storytelling

I entered the big stage at Fotomässan Stockholm in November and you can now watch the entire talk online (opens in a new window at Moderskeppet)!

“How do you tell a story in a creative image? Why is it important with a location scouting library, what symbolizes different colours in different cultures, and how can a single piece from nature build an entire story?“

A big audience of about 300 joined me when I shared why and how image storytelling is so important and has gotten such a big place in my heart (and yes… you are correct… I was on the verge of tears there for a while…). I talked about 5 tools you can use to help you create and adapt your story. Lastly I gave you an exercise you can use if you find it difficult to get going with your own storytelling. And of course I couldn’t help to spice it up with some anecdotes from my photographic adventures as well!

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Watch the talk here (opens in a new window at Moderskeppet):
Please note that it’s in Swedish. Contact me for talks in English.

Artist talk by photographer Jenny Jacobsson about creative storytelling

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INSPIRATION FOR IMAGE CREATORS – How to get inspired again and again..? Reflections from my latest teaching class

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INSPIRATION FOR IMAGE CREATORS – How to get inspired again and again..? Reflections from my latest teaching class

~I headed to Fotoskolan Göteborg this week for a full day to talk and teach the class about creating images.
The day before I got interviewed by Moderskeppet about my work and I got the question how I approach ‘inspiration’,
and if I wait for it to happen before I start to create or if I just start creating, hoping that inspiration will come?
And what I do if inspiration doesn’t come..?~


And it hit me. As professional photographers we just can’t sit around and wait for inspiration to pop up by itself. What quality work could we deliver to our clients if we aren’t doing inspired work!? So… what can you do to get inspired, again and again?

“When doing my talks I love if my story inspires the students, but most of all I want to push them to start thinking about their own journey and why they love and started shooting from the start. A talk about me is… well… not about me, not really… I’m more like a channel into themselves. So instead when leaving at the end of the day I hope for the person who I just met has gotten some insight about who THEY are as image creators.”

Artist talk notes - Jenny Jacobsson

So during the talk I let them answer some important questions that I’ve blogged about before, 5 essential questions as photographers. To remind ourselves what we actually love about photography, and also to keep pushing ourselves to do even better, be even better. This time I added the question “What environment and under what circumstances do you love to shoot in?”. Because answering those questions about inspiration myself I started to think about how important it is for us creators to just not sit around and wait for a magical moment to happen to us. I feel that instead we have our own destiny in our hands and we should expose ourselves to things that challenge us, that get our mind going, that inspires us. And what that is, is something we actively need to work on finding out.

I’m a firm believer that feeling inspired is a state of mind that you can teach yourself to find when you need it. It might not be easy, and sometimes we fail. But instead of just sitting around waiting for it, if we know what normally inspires us, and know what we like in an image, it is easier to go after it.

“So, what can we do to get started? First, I believe that you should start analyzing your own images. What do you like in the ones you like, and what is it that you don’t like in those that you don’t?”

Is it a specific light at a specific part of the day, or maybe a certain type of location, or maybe a special connection between people? You can also look at other people’s work and contemplate the same things. Start to write down the things that you do like. And answer those 5 (or 6…) questions as well. And as you go along, you will probably will be forming a statement of what you really really enjoy and like to create in your own work, and where.

Inspiration by the sea - Jenny Jacobsson

“Once you’ve started to figure out what you like, it’s time to get moving. What do you think will happen, lets say, if you love shooting by the sea with the salty wind against your cheek and you love the breeze of seaweed… if you go out to the sea every now and then, compared to sitting inside at home in an air conditioned environment? What do you think would inspire you more?”

Maybe it’s time for us creators to leave our computers behind sometimes and just go put ourselves in the circumstance of what we love to shoot. If you find out that you love shooting food, a good idea might be to dedicate some time to cook something beautiful for someone you care about. Maybe sit down in the kitchen of someone else who is a great cook and just smell, feel, and taste what could be in front of your lens. Or lets say you are all into storytelling. Maybe sit down, all alone with headphones, with your favorite music album and listen through it. Not just through one song, but the entire album, and visualize the story told from beginning to end. Or have a long conversation with your grandma when asking her about a story from her youth. Or….

If you are like me, I love the connection between man and nature. I know that I almost always gets an idea for an image if I go out for a walk in the forest or by the sea. So that’s why I truly need to dedicate time to go out there a few times a week, to let those thoughts fly. To actively go out and search for my inspiration. And if I’ve got an assignment I always go out and try to find and indulge in that special location for that shoot, to get that inspiration flowing.

Artist talk - Jenny Jacobsson


Lastly, I want to lift the questions out of the classroom and ask YOU. Do you know what gets you going? Do you have any great tips for getting your inspiration on? My tips are just the beginning and not the full answer to being inspired.

Please share your tip with the community in a comment below and maybe we can help inspire each other to  get ourselves actively inspired. ⬇

Love,
Jenny

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Online video course for Moderskeppet – ‘CREATE IMAGINATIVE IMAGE STORIES’

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Online video course for Moderskeppet – ‘CREATE IMAGINATIVE IMAGE STORIES’

And so it is time…

My online video course for Moderskeppet Guld is up and available! Join me for CREATE IMAGINATIVE IMAGE STORIES (Skapa fantasifulla bildberättelser).

TRAINING COURSE CONTENT

Create your own fantastical story by following me through my process of creating storytelling photography with my special version of realistic surrealism. I’ll teach you a simple method for coming up with a story, plan and prepare everything for your shoot, how to shoot it, and show you how you can approach the editing. With this course you can open the door to your own enchanted world of images.

THE COURSE IS IN SWEDISH so for you who don’t speak it… you might need some help to understand it… If you are interested in getting English training from me, let me know in the comments below because I’m looking into how I can broaden my spread of knowledge.

COLLABORATION WITH MODERSKEPPET


For this course I worked together with, and as a freelance teacher for, Moderskeppet (meaning The Mothership), who has been teaching photography and Photoshop for 10 years. At Moderskeppet they create video courses (about 500 available today) for you who are a creator. You’ll get unlimited access when you subscribe to them. Fantastic teachers teach you how to photograph, edit, make film, and design. They truly are an amazing, fun, and knowledgeable crew that I’ve grown to love dearly. For quick daily free tips, go to Moderskeppet – Knowledge for photographers.

INFO AND LINKS


Find more intriguing courses at Moderskeppet here and become a member here (perhaps start by trying it out for a month!).

Read more about me and my courses over at my teacher page at Moderskeppet.

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5 essential questions as photographers – Artist talk at Fotoskolan Göteborg

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5 essential questions as photographers – Artist talk at Fotoskolan Göteborg

I was invited to do an artist talk at Photography School Gothenburg (Fotoskolan Göteborg) yesterday and together we wrote down answers to five questions. When working and living as a photographer sometimes it can be difficult to try to stay true to your own visions and keep your creative pride, thinking that you need to create something else because you feel pressured to. I strongly believe that if you are not true to your own creative vision and pride, you will soon start to resent the work that you used to absolutely love. And also, I’m a firm believer that as long as YOU love what you create, there will be lots of others out there that do as well.

“To remind ourselves what we actually love about photography, and also to keep pushing ourselves to do even better, be even better, we ask ourselves these questions. Questions that we can go back to and rethink over the years, in constant evolution, to move forward, but still remind ourselves of where our true love for photography once started and what our core values are for the images we create.“

WHAT MADE YOU FALL IN LOVE WITH PHOTOGRAPHY? | Remind yourself of that magic moment, or those magic images, that ones pushed you to start shooting.

THINK OF 3 THINGS THAT YOU LOVE IN AN IMAGE | Try to as often as possible incorporate those 3 things in your own images, to keep your voice and to create consistancy in your work. May it be a color, a subject, a location, an emotion, a genre…

IF YOU HAD NO LIMITATIONS, WHAT WOULD YOU PHOTOGRAPH? | If money or relying on others were no issue, what would you create? Is there anything you can do, right now, that can make you go out and shoot something similar, or even more awesome?

WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE BETTER AT/STRENGHTEN YOUR PORTFOLIO WITH? | As photographers we need to constantly evolve and push ourselves. Right now, what can you do to evolve?

AS A PHOTOGRAPHER, WHAT DO YOU WANT TO SPEND YOUR DAYS DOING? | Working as a photographer, we do not only pick up our cameras and photograph all day long. We need a focus as a business and spend our days creating more than photographs. For you, do you want to be hired by a company, sell prints, do exhibitions, do assignments, write a book, work for a magazine, teach…?

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Conceptual imaginative portraiture truly makes my heart beat. If it does the same for you, and you want to learn more about creating it, visit my blog category Educational to find out more.

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Making man fly – how to create levitation in Photoshop

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Making man fly – how to create levitation in Photoshop

This video is a Before & After as well as an accelerated showcase of my post-processing of a several files to a finished conceptual image. Here I’m making man fly by creating levitation with a few Photoshop tricks.

The sky is the limit…

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location | LANGKAWI ISLAND in MALAYSIA
model | ANDREAS GUSTAFSSON

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To sneak peek Behind-the-Scenes, go visit my blog post Man of passage!

‘MAN OF PASSAGE’

conceptual, levitation, Photoshop, portrait, Göteborg

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Check out more of my levitation work featured in Golden Age magazine, and see the interview about being a photographer!

 

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Post-processing a fairy tale

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Post-processing a fairy tale

“The girl and the secret within” – This video is a Before & After as well as an accelerated showcase of my post-processing of several files to a finished conceptual image in Photoshop.

The world can be so much more than what first meets the eye…

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Face fusion

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Face fusion

On Monday we at Fotoskolan Göteborg got the neat task of taking a portrait of oneself and a classmate and then in Photoshop fuse them together into one new person. I loved the challenge of using a proper blonde to contrast my own brunette type. And I couldn’t resist to create two new persons instead of only one.

So… behold… the Montage sisters!

The upper images are the two versions with the faces fused and the lower images are the originals. For some reason the sisters looked a lot younger than our original normal selves. Hm…

 

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Levitation

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Levitation

And so it was time to answer the next question from my dear readers, and this one is from the delightful Anders Bergkvist, who wrote me a comment in You ask, I tell – The Force of Nature where he wondered “How did you create the levitating impression of your first Flickr Explore image?” (above).

THE PROBLEM

 If you’ve ever tried to make a proper jump you probably noticed that it’s difficult to get some distance from the ground at the same time making it look relaxed and without pulling your face. Unless you are perhaps a trained dancer or gymnast. And trust me… I’m certainly not…

LEVITATION AND MONTAGES

Levitation can of course be created in several ways. Like in all photography a good goal to create a realistic effect is to always capture as much as you can in camera, and try to avoid unnecessary manipulation. Since our mind and eyes are really good at noticing if something fishy is going on and if light and shadows don’t add up, it’s quite hard to put a montage together and there are a lot of things to be considered (more about that in a future post).

If I had been graceful enough (and believe me, I’m not) I would have performed this little jump and at the same time managed to pose and turn my torso slightly to create the body shape I was after. I tried, but I can assure you you wouldn’t be pleased with the result.

IMAGES NEEDED TO BE SHOT

Although for this shot I was a bit lucky, or at least I made it quite easy for myself since I didn’t want to levitate beyond belief. I just wanted to take off a little from the ground, like I was floating away. So I needed to shoot images with:

1) stretched legs and pointed toes

2) the shadow on the ground created by the jump

3) the upper body, relaxed and twisted the way I wanted with the face also relaxed and eyes on the ground

PHOTOSHOP PROCESS

After having shot two kinds of shots, one where I took a little jump trying to create good legs, and one kind where I was happy with my upper body, I opened my files in Photoshop. The two images that I’d chosen was put in two different layers on top of each other. Since the upper body layer needed to be placed a bit higher to match my waist, I moved this layer upwards until it fit (you can see how much I moved it in the 2nd image below if you look closely, on the line between the floor and the wall).

When this was done, I hid the “bad legs” from the upper body layer by painting black in my layermask, revealing the jumping legs from the layer below. So that you can this see better, in the 3rd image below I lowered the opacity of the upper body layer so that you can to see the two images together at once (I look a bit like a ghost).

To finish there were a few details that needed to be clone stamped or patched to make everything seemless in the dress, but that was about it for the levitation effect.

So by adding two or more different images into one, you can create the most incredible effects. Give it a try and have some fun with it!

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The Force of Nature

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The Force of Nature

Every now and then I get questions from my beloved blog followers, Flickr contacts, and/or friends about how I did something, why I did another thing, what my inspiration was, if I got caught doing that incredibly embarrasing thing… And I now think it’s time to start my You ask, I tell! And it’s just as simple as it sounds. You ask. And I will tell. Hopefully not too many embarrasing things 🙂

First up is a question I got from Hanna Jakobsson, the amazingly charming author of the blog Fröken Jakobssons Vänner, who wonders

“What did you do with the leaves in the tree image?”

And I’m pretty sure she is referring to The Force of Nature and how I processed the image to create the effect of the tree.

To leave an exact description of how I edited the tree would make this post far too long and I don’t want to bore you to death. It involved a lot of blurring, curves, levels, saturation changes, brushing, masking, and a few textures. And since I’m all about the visual, I’ve decided to show the process in 16 images.

The difference may be hard to see between some of the images (especially since they are quite small), but it’s there. It might be e.g. the color or saturation of the leaves, the color of different parts of the trunk, or a vignette. And since this image is not only about the tree I included the entire process, also showing the processing of the girl (me). Also, take a look at To surrender to the Force of Nature for a Behind the Scenes of the same image.

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To wear a dead bird’s wings…

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To wear a dead bird’s wings…

Welcome to my very first Behind the Scenes! “Broken Wings” derives from a summer’s day when I was taking a walk and my eyes got caught on these semi-decomposed bird wings among the leaves on the ground. And my instinct was of course that I had to wear them! Even though they would only fit a person 40 cm tall…

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But since I’m a very stubborn girl I resisted the terrible stench reeking out from them, poked sticks under the “armpits” of the post-bird, and walked around the forest to find a good location.

Luckily it didn’t take long before I ran into this tree stump. The stump was big enough to fit me in it and also it provided a good spot for a levitation trick. Even though the wings were broken I had to at least try to fly with them.

Below, I’ll take you through both the SHOOTING PROCESS and the PHOTOSHOP PROCESS

SHOOTING PROCESS

So I needed three shots to be able to create a girl with wings trying to fly from a tree stump.

1) THE UPPER BODY AND ARMS I put my camera on my tripod, climbed the stump and flung around it in different positions, shooting myself using my Canon RC-1 wireless remote control. Climbed back down, ran to the camera to check on the poses and angles, and ran back to the stump to create better ones. This kept on until I felt like I had been through a tough yoga session and I had a shot I was happy with.

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levitation, self portrait, post-processing, Photoshop, conceptual, bird, fly, take off, forest, Behind the scenes

 

2) THE LEGS To create that levitation look I needed to lift my legs off the stump, not touching it at all with my legs. So back up on the stump I let myself into the same position as in the shot I had chosen, held my body up with my arms and released the legs.

3) THE WINGS were a lot trickier since they were so small (and also very fragile and risked of falling apart any second). Still having the wings on sticks, I first tried to get the correct perspective by putting the wings in the proper place behind the stump with the aim to increase their size later on. Although, I wasn’t happy with the details so instead I tried to lift them in front of and close to the camera. For this part it is very important to keep the same focal length even if the subject is moved around. I was happy with these images and I was done shooting.

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levitation, self portrait, post-processing, Photoshop, conceptual, bird, fly, take off, forest, Behind the scenes

 

“Let me make a note that all this was going on with people walking by… looking like they were going to call the police for them to come get that crazy bird woman running around in the woods with wings, looking like she would need a strait-jacket…“

 

PHOTOSHOP PROCESS

In Photoshop I combined the two images of the girl in the forest by using the first shot as a main layer, masking over “the wrong legs” and letting through the levitated legs from underneath with some modifications.

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levitation, self portrait, post-processing, Photoshop, conceptual, bird, fly, take off, forest, Behind the scenes

 

After that I cut out one wing at a time, pasted them on the forest image, corrected their positions and angles and let the arms and body of the girl in front of the wings.

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levitation, self portrait, post-processing, Photoshop, conceptual, bird, fly, take off, forest, Behind the scenes

For me the story is sad and moody, so I wanted the tone and color of the final image to convey that feeling. I worked with blues and darks and decreasing the yellow in the greens. Some more tweaking and adjustments and VOILÀ!

BROKEN WINGS

Broken wings

A lot of work, full of aches, and marked as a crazy bird woman, but at least I got to wear a dead bird’s wings…

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