• Art,  eBook,  Editing,  Photoshop,  Portrait

    Basic Photoshop Tips | How To Use Layer Mask To Create Montage

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Simple Technique to Create Montage Using Layer Mask Among the most powerful tool in Photoshop is “Layer Mask”, during my Photoshop Workshops with Spylens Studio in Kota Kinabalu last week end, I spent quite a lot of time explaining to the participants, how they can make use Layer Mask for selective editing. Not just that once they have a grasp of Layer Mask, they can use it to channel their creativity further. This is not really a tutorial but basically just wanted to show what you can do with Layer Mask especially those who are new with “Masking” technique in Photoshop. It was easy to…

  • Art,  Black and White,  Editing,  Family,  People,  Portrait

    Photography | iPhoneography | iPhone Picture | A Printed Memory

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | iPhoneography | A Printed Memory | 4R Size Printed o Matt Paper I believe that those of you who have access to the internet regularly, those of you who spent great amount of time on Facebook and those of you who read my blog have a Mobile Phone and most mobile phone nowadays have built in camera, even among the cheapest mobile phone nowadays have built in camera attached to their mobile device. I believe also that we take tons of photos with that little camera, but my question is, have you ever printed any of the pictures that you take with your mobile camera?…

  • Art,  Expression,  Face,  Malaysia,  People,  Photoshop,  Portraiture,  Portraiture Workshops,  Workshops Photoshop

    Portrait Photography | Senior Portraiture | Close Up

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Senior Muslimah Portraiture This photograph were taken during Spylens Studio photography workshop held in Lok Kawi outskirts of Kota Kianablu Sabah. It was taken purely with just natural light, without reflector. I’m not doing any senior photography business but if I’ve free times and if I get an invitation from my photography friends, I will join them for fun. I like to get a close up shot of the person I’m photographing, just like a portrait of My son, I like to get really close and I’m not interested to get cheeky smiling face on my photograph. I like my subject to relax, maybe a…

  • Art,  Editing,  Face,  Photoshop,  Portrait,  Workshops Photoshop

    Photoshop Killer Tips | How To Get Muted Color Tone In Adobe Camera RAW

    Just wanted to share some of the simplest way how you can get muted color or less vibrance color inside ACR or Adobe Camera RAW. Just open any picture in ACR or Adobe Camera RAW. If you don’t have RAW file, you can also open Jpeg file in ACR from BRIDGE, please refer to my previous post if you wanted to know how you can open your Jpeg file in ACR. Once you get your picture in Adobe Camera RAW, just follow the next step. It was really straight forward process. Just push the “Temperature” to somewhere around 10 000 to 30 000, in this picture I set the Temperature…

  • Art,  Editing,  Life,  Photoshop,  Portrait

    Basic Adobe Photoshop Tips | How To Create a Vignette in Photoshop

    Step 1 : Open any picture in Photoshop, but usually vignette is the last process or final editing in Photoshop, so basically before you apply vignette effect, it is better for you to edit your picture until you satisfied before you proceed with vignetting. Step 2 : Duplicate the Layer ad set the Blending Option to “Multiply“. If you are using a Mac, just Click Command + J to duplicate and for PC user, just click Control + J to duplicate the layer. Step 3 : Select Rectangular Marquee tool for selection, and before proceed with the “Framing”, make sure you set the Feather like Step 2 in the picture…