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My in Studio Gear List and On the Go Kit

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Victoria Pavlov Studio

 

I’ve been asked many time which apps and equipment I use in my studio or when i am travel.  So I decided to put together my studio equipment list and on the go kit.

Studio kit:

Adobe Creative Cloud Full plan 
iMac
Wacom Intuos
iPad
Adobe ink
Nikon D600
Westcott Rapid Box
Wescott Eyelighter
Tripod
iPhone 6 Plus
Microphone
Easel
Arkon_Mount TWBroadcaster

 

On to go kit:

Adobe Creative Cloud Full plan
MacBook Pro
Wacom Intuos
iPad
iPhone
Adobe Ink & Slide
Nikon D600
Westcott LED
Tripod
Arkon_Mount RM179

Adobe Comp, Adobe Lightroom CC, Adobe Muse, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Mix, Adobe Sketch, Adobe Slate, Uncategorized

Help To Go

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My Help To Go service

My Help To Go service offers help with any of your design and photography projects. If you want a second opinion, or you’re just not sure if you are in a rough patch I can help you. This is a one-on-one online consultation. You can choose between half hour and one hour consultation.

I support follow applications:

  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Adobe Lightroom
  • Adobe Muse
  • Adobe Comp
  • Adobe Sketch
  • Adobe Brush
  • Adobe Shape
  • Adobe Lightroom Mobile
  • Adobe Color
  • Adobe Premiere Clip
  • Adobe Photoshop Mix
  • Adobe Creative Cloud
  • Digital Painting

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Create a Zombie image in Adobe Photoshop

In this tutorial I will show you how to create a Zombie image in Adobe Photoshop

1: Create a new document
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2: Open the image you would like to use as a background image. I am using image I downloaded from Dollar Photo Club.
Select > All > Edit > Copy > Highlight your new document > Edit > Paste
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3: Open your Zombie image. I am using image I downloaded from Dollar Photo Club.
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4: Using Rectangular Marquee Tool select your Zombie
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5:  Edit > Copy > Highlight  your document > Edit > Paste
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6: Select > Focus Area > Remove the white background around your Zombie
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7 : Resize and move your Zombie
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8: Highlight the background layer
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9: Adjustments Layer > Exposure
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10: Adjustments Layer > Vibrance
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11:Highlight your Zombie layer
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12: Adjustments Layer > Vibrance

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13: Duplicate Zombie layer ( “Zombie copy” layer) and move this layer under your  Zombie layer
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14: Edit > Transform > Distort
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15: Image > Adjustments > Levels
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16: Filter > Gaussian Blur  Radius = 28.9 Pixels
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17: Make Zombie copy Layer opacity = 54%

18: Merge all visible layers
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19: Duplicate Zombie copy layer > Filter > Camera Raw Filter > Dehaze filter . Make Dehaze -29, Grain: Amount =6, Size =25, Roundness =50. Click OK and make layer opacity = 59
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20: Add a new layer with white color on it > Filter > Render > Fibers
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21: Magic Wand Tool > Select the Layer ( simply drag the  Magic Wand Tool from the left top corner to the right bottom corner ) > Delete > Select > Deselect >Image > Adjustments > Levels
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22: Filter > Blur > Motion Blur
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23: Image > Free Transform > Resize the rain layer
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24: Make rain layer opacity = 27 > Adjustments > Curve
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25: Merge All visible layers.
Duplicate this layer
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26: Filter > Render > Lens Flare
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27: Click OK and make a layer opacity = 47%  > Add a layer mack > Erase left bottom corner of your  lens flare layer ( top layer)
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28: Adjustments > Color Lookup > LateSunset.3DL > Layer Opacity =31
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Beginning of Zombies

 

    

Adobe Lightroom CC, Digital Art, Uncategorized

Live preview of Dehaze effect in Adobe Lightroom

This year I went to a local park for a 4th of July fireworks display. I pretty much got some nice images using my Nikon  and Terry White’s firework shooting settings.  But  it doesn’t matter how good your settings are we still cant avoid the smoke in our fireworks pictures. Thanks to the Dehaze effect in Adobe  Lightroom CC  I can remove the smoke from my pictures in a second simply moving Dehaze effect slider to the right. Moving Dehaze slider to the right from 0  to +100 you are removing haze/smoke from your pictures. Moving the Dehaze effect slider from 0 to -100 you can add a haze effect to your pictures.

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See it in action here:

Dehaze effect In Lightroom

 

 

Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Mix, Digital Art, Tip of The Day, Uncategorized

How to Make a Movie Poster with Adobe Photoshop Mix

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Click on + icon

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Click on Camera Roll icon

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Choose your first ( and it will be our background ) image

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Resize your image

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Adjust > Exposure ( move exposure’s slider all way to the left to apply the Night Time Effect to our background layer)

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Click on the second layer icon and add your second image

Click on Cut Out icon. Now we need to remove the Moon’s background.
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Resize the Moon’s size

Adjust > Exposure ( move exposure’s slide to the left to make the moon darker )

Holding the Moon Layers move this layer over our Background layer
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Now we have another “empty” layer. Click on the “empty” layer and chose the robot image

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Cut Out > Remove Robot’s image background

Adjust > Exposure > Move Exposure slider to the left to make robot image absolutely dark

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Holding Robot Layer icon move this layer over our First layer

Click on Looks icon > Natural + look

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Adjust > Saturation > Move slider to the left

Send to Photoshop > Your image is Stored in your Creative Cloud Photoshop Folder

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Open your Photoshop Mix image in Photoshop

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Adobe Paper Texture Pro

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Chose any paper texture you like to work with > Image > Adjustment > Vibrance

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Make Layer opacity = 67% > Gradient Tool ( with opacity = 18% )

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Apply mask to highlight the moon and robot

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Adjustment Layers > Exposure

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Final

Digital Art, Tip of The Day, Uncategorized

Another reason to use Adobe Mobile Apps

Last week I was in Paris and Milan. I was visiting Louvre in Paris and the Leonardo Da Vinci exhibit in Milan. As usual people from around the world were attending those museums. But what surprised and made me sad was that many of people were not interested in art in general. They were standing in a line for tickets in Louvre about 1-2 hours and what they were interested in more was a selfie. I am a big fan of social media but I truly believe when you are next to the Mona Lisa you must (at least) have one quick (one second) look at the Mona Lisa and after that you can turn your back to the most beautiful peace of art to take a selfie. I can understand three languages and I heard from the people around me: “I have my selfie for Facebook or Instagram. Now we can go” AND THEY DID NOT EVEN LOOK AT THE MONA LISA AT ALL!!! People who came to museum to see art were very upset, they had trouble to get close to the art to see it because of all the people with phones.

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It was the same in Milan. At the Leonardo da Vinci exhibit they do not allow you to take any pictures of the art and signs were posted everywhere, but it did not help. People were sneaking photos of the art and did not care that they were damaging it with their camera’s flash.

OK if you want to use your phone you can use it in a good way using an Adobe app. Using Adobe Shape CCor Adobe Color CC, you can capture the art you want to and after that you can create illustrations, for example a coloring book/page for your children to educate them.

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Made with Adobe Shape, Adobe photoshop, Adobe Paper Texture Pro
Made with Adobe Shape, Adobe photoshop, Adobe Paper Texture Pro

You can create your own art from the shape you created with Adobe Shape CC using Adobe Photoshop or illustrator. With Adobe mobile apps we have new ways to use our smartphones and I really hope that people will stop turning their back to the art to have a selfie and will start using their smartphones to create something what will last forever.

Adobe Photoshop, Digital Art, Photography, Photoshop Painting, Tip of The Day, Uncategorized, Wacom

My Painting Setting

My painting setting:

Mixer Brush Tool
One Color ( Black or White )
Setting:
Custom

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Window > Workspace > Painting

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If you have any questions about Digital Painting with Adobe Photoshop, contact me @Victoria_Pavlov