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Diffusion - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photography Foundations: Black and White
Diffusion
If you've spent much time watching old movies then you're probably used to seeing actresses shot with this diffuse hazy glow around their faces, so they would sit perfectly still on a particular pool of light and have this wonderful softness about them. And that's because very often they insisted that the cinematographer shoot them through some gauze, or a pair of pantyhose, or smear Vaseline on the lens, or something to ensure that they had this soft glow that made their skin look much better. That type of diffusion is an effective technique to apply to any type of photo, but it's very often particularly effective on black-and-white images. Black and white, as we discussed, is already an abstraction. Adding diffusion can make the image even more abstract which can often create atmosphere and draw the viewer more in, emotionally. So we're going to do that to this image. I've got this horse ears here that were shot in this nice bright light, and it's already kind of a really soft, hazy…
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The nature of grayscale images3m 33s
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Converting to black and white using Photoshop CS4 or CS56m 17s
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More about the Black & White dialog box3m 19s
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Converting to black and white using Black & White adjustment layers3m 54s
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Converting to black and white in Camera Raw4m 5s
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Making an advanced tonal correction17m 33s
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Doing more tonal corrections14m 6s
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Calming down highlights10m 4s
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Vignetting8m 58s
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The trestle images2m 39s
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Handling tricky skies2m 43s
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Doing a selective black-and-white conversion2m 23s
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Toning1m 19s
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Split-toning2m 19s
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High-key and low-key images2m 31s
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Diffusion4m 40s
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Using Nik Software's Silver Efex Pro 2 plug-in7m 46s
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