How Do You Learn The Elements Of Airbrushing Techniques?
Have you ever wondered how those pictures & photographs you see in the print & TV media look fantastic? Ever thought to yourself “I wish my photos looked half as good as that?” Most if not all of those images you’ve seen will have been ‘airbrushed’ to some degree & in some cases, extremely!. The term ‘airbrushing’ really means ‘digital enhancement’. This is done using much available software such as Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Paintshop Pro & many many others. This software is truly amazing & mind blowing at what they can do. You see, almost any camera, digital that is, cannot produce images like those seen in the media ‘straight out of the can’, so to speak. It is a common fact that the sensor in a digital camera has a much reduced ‘dynamic range’ to that of the human eye. The images captured by the camera will lack contrast, brightness, colour saturation, sharpness etc…the list goes on. It is the correction of these issues that forms part of the ‘airbrushing’ process. Only
