Mark Greenmantle Photography

After a few days of non stop real estate HDR image retouching for a mate I decided that Voodoo Lulu’s store cat Sid had to have a steampunk makeover…..

I have had to hold off on exporting a few jobs from around new years due to my Lightroom 2 program trial expiring in my old system. Now with an entirely new OS installed I have kicked a new copy of Lightroom into gear and will be able to catch up on those jobs. To have started them over in Lightroom 1.4 would have lost a lot of editing already done in formats not supported in the older version.

While in WinXP Lightroom 2 sucked resources like crazy, in Windows7 beta it is taking only a fraction of the RAM and CPU load to do the job and much, much faster. It doesn’t hurt that Monk built me a new pc with twice as much RAM and a newer CPU at all, but the difference is far beyond the hardware upgrade alone.

Lots to work on tonight so I’ll shut up and process pics. Will post some up soon.

I’ve been trawling http://www.retouchpro.com for new ideas on techniques in Photoshop and ways to push both my skills further along with what I can teach those who come to me for tutorials.

What kinds of Photoshop magic do you want to learn? Which manipulated images make you gape and ask, “how the hell did they do that?”??

Let me know and I will devise tutorials for you and post them here to share.

I’m going to start off with the AMAZING work for Gisele’s latest advertising campaign and go through first some of the photographic requirements for the source images and then show how to put images of water over the images of your model to create an image such as: