The Begining.

Well where to begin...other than turning left from your mind and right out the door..down to the train station, and into platform 13.5 catch a train to hogwarts and then teaching harry potter to get drunk during his education stages, and then find his wardrobe enter it and go to narnia and beating the snow bitch and the lion running the kingdom and then finally returning home for lunch...thats when we begin the photoshop session.

To begin most my work I normally extract the person, or object into a plain background, using masks, multiple levels if there is more than one object to focus on. other effective tools are the wand and lasso which i will be showing how to use in ease..or we could cheat and use a soft eraser and hide our mistakes with different techniques. It really depends on how you want to go about it.

To be honest doing work on photoshop is like renovating a house, we are just jazzing it up and masking problems with kool stuff to make it look snazzy and fresh. But unlike the renovation only a select few will really notice it, unless you make a real bad mistake and leave it untouched.

Everyone who I have recently taught photoshop too has come from a photography background or a absolute novice, and what I have found is that the novices seem to grasp photoshop a lot quicker than the photographers who have known a bit that struggle as they want quick and easy results and forget the basics of photoshop in terms of selections, filters, extractions. But this is what the blog is going to be for, for people who I have taught and currently teaching photoshop to come back and use the simple techniques or to just have a browse through current work. Through out the coming weeks I will be posting past and current work, with briefs that have been set, and also how to draft a initial contract on how to make the edited work yours to keep and avoid being taken for a fool and not being paid for comercial work that you have done and are unaware of.

Please note all pictures in my blogs have been edited solely for tutorial use and have been done by me. Some outside brushes have been used but that can be found on each picture as applicable.

I look forward to seeing comments from who ever has seen this via knowing me personally or stumbling across the blog.

Akshay Patel

The Imagination Chamber