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6Nov/118

A photoshop video on Youtube going through the roof

April last year, I posted a video tutorial on Youtube. It was my first tutorial in english, which doesn't come as a great surprise to those who watch it.

It had been generating a decent amount of views, but then all of a sudden this year, the amount of viewers started to climb.

1. October 2011, It had 250,000 views - one month later 500,000. At this point, it's generating about 8,000 views a day which is pretty damn good for a photoshop video on the internet.

Why so many viewers? I haven't got the slightest idea - but it's pretty darn awesome, and has definately inspired me to start doing more.

So if you have advices for any good screen capture software available out there, write it in the comments.

And what should I make a tutorial about next time?

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22Nov/101

Photoshop Video Tutorial – Exploding man

Here's a long promised video tutorial on how this image was made in photoshop.

I must apologize for the video quality. If you have any good advice on what software I should be using for screencapturing video (on a windows), let me know.

Oh, and do note it's on Danish.

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9Oct/100

Video: Understanding sync speed with studio lights

Surfing the web has proven to be good idea time and time again for me at least.

My latest discovery is these very well executed videos on photography. Do yourself a favour and watch it.

And link to the video

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1Oct/101

Photoshop: selection and extraction techniques

Photoshop can be used for many things regarding retouching and image optimization, but when it comes to photo manipulations, extracting parts of images and making composites plays quite a big role.

As with everything in photoshop, there are many ways to make selections and do background extractions.

You might know the old extraction tool which has been excluded in cs 4 and 5.

You might know magic wand tool and it's successor quick selection tool.

But there are also things like color range - using channels - background eraser tool.

Here's a quite useful link going in-depth with the different ways to make selections and extract along with guides to the specific tools used.

Enjoy the link

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23Aug/100

Database of useful stuff for Photoshop and Photography

I rediscovered StumbleUpon a few days ago, and I stumbled upen this fantastic place which has a very extensive database of useful information about photography and Photoshop.

There are small articles explaining everything from Levels to sharpening to making panorama shots.

Use it well

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5Aug/101

DIY – the steadycam Copenhagen style

Yesterday I met Michael Rygaard for the first time, and today we initiated a DIY (Do it yourself) project together. We had talked a bit about cheap modifiers for the canon 5d mk2 so that the HD video could be utilized more effecient, and this morning I got back from workout to a facebook message saying - I've looked around the internet - wanna build this? Since I had nothing else planned today, I said, hell yeah.

4 hours later and a bargain at a keymakers shop which ended with us buying them beer for letting us use some of their tools, we had ourselves a Steadycam. Michael has it every second week.

The mount for the camera

Stabilizing weight.

This is the project we got inspired by - thanks to david for reminding me to post this.

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4Aug/100

Time lapse photoshop video – my second

After having done my first time lapse photoshop video, I've decided to play around with it a bit from time to time. When I get bored, I either watch Angel online (yes, it's my secret vice) or edit photosfor the fun of it. So I thought to myself - what the hell, why not just record a time lapse everytime i do so.

So here we are with my second time lapse video

And the direct link to HD

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1Aug/100

My photoshop – your images part 3

I've received yet another photo, which I've gone through in this danish photoshop walkthrough video.

Here's the video in HD

Make sure to check out My photoshop - your images part 2

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28Jul/100

My photoshop – Your images part 2

The first one to take advantage of my offer previous posted on the blog, was Khuram. He sent me an image of himself wielding a Katana smered in blood.

So of course I opened up photoshop right away and becan editing the **** out of that photo.

Here's the video

And finally, before and after.

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19Jul/101

Video tutorial on layers, masks and adjustment layers

I guess video tutorials for Photoshop is my new thing. I guess it's mostly because I'm stubborn and don't like loosing any kinds of fights.

Meaning, last week, my computer got infected my a malicious virus from downloading a video converting tool for... yes, a video tutorial which was a little too big for uploading on Youtube.

Now, 6 days later, it's still completely busted, so I've borrowed my dads laptop (with 4 times the RAM, thank you dad) and started going through subjects for tutorials that people around me had suggested.

The virus may have locked down my computer, but those video tutorials WILL see the day!

Yeah, this time, it's a fairly basic tutorial on layers, masks and adjustment layers - On Danish (mostly because it's getting featured at Miteos.dk at the same time)