Let’s start with a question. Did you happen to make well-composed and exposed shots with original and fresh idea that can be easily used as panorama pictures in wedding album or its cover if they were a bit sharper? I think everybody did. So what do you do in such situation? Forget about this shot or try to sharpen it up a bit with help of Photoshop sharpen filters? I’d like to offer you the other ways to get better results.

   As you know, sharpening is a detailed method of increasing the contrast between two objects usually isolated to the point at where they met. It means that to sharpen your image you just need to darken the lines and lighten the areas around them. Sharpening should always be done in the end of photo retouching process. So, if you have some photos from your clients’ wedding album that require sharpening, make them ready and follow this tutorial…

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Today we gonna talk about photos exposure, namely about over exposed photo correction.
As you know, overexposed digital photos become one of the common problems of digital camera photo shooting. Such photos have blown out areas and sometimes are completely saturated and white. Their color is not rich and
the objects tend to look white and not “alive”. The reason for over exposed photos is setting to exposure too low. As a wedding photographer, you should practice and experiment in order to avoid such photos. However, you often make photos in bright sunny days and of course, your newly married couple wants to include to their wedding album as many wonderful photos captured outside as possible. Therefore, if little overexposure occurred, you should know how to fix that effect on your photos.

So, take a look at my new tutorial and you will not have to disappoint your clients as all the moments of their special day will be captured.

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What wedding album does not contain group and family photos? Surely, all relatives and friends want to be captured with newly married couple. While each bride and groom want to include those pictures into the photo album design as memories of people who shared their happiness in that special day. Therefore, as a photographer, you should know how to process such group photos to make happy and satisfied each person captured on the photo.
In this short tutorial, I will show you how to retouch group photos easily, quickly and effectively. Lighting adjustment, effect of shining eyes and hair, sharpness addition, etc – this will help you to include to your photo album design only good-looking and high quality images. No super efforts. Only great results.

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Our wedding album already contains some photos with infrared effect. The bride looks gorgeous, does not she? Now, let us think what we can do more. How about adding some light beams effects? Some photos definitely require them. Sunbeams breaking through the clouds and illuminating our newly married couple, couple surrounded by shining halos – what can be better? This effect underlines couple’s happiness and purity of their feelings. Step by step, we will show you the technique of creating clouds and drawing sunbeams. Step by step, you will see how ordinary picture gets new fresh look and turns in real photo masterpiece. Wedding photographs with such an effect will be the pearl of your wedding album.
Let’s start!
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Each couple wants to remember their special day as one of the most beautiful, touching and never-to-be-forgotten moments in their life. They proudly show videos and wedding albums to relatives and friends each time remembering all details as even it was yesterday. If you want to achieve the same result, you should take care about your wedding album design. Depending on its design, your photos and events captured on them may look fantastic and gorgeous. Some collages, little special effects – and you get real design masterpiece. Your friends will definitely be admired and a little touched with envy. That is why we start posting series of tutorials dedicated to interesting Photoshop effects, which can be used in wedding album design.

At the first tutorial, we will show you how to create an infrared effect that makes you color photographs look unusual and gorgeous. Here we go!
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