I thought I would put together a three-part tutorial taking a single image from start to finish. For part one, I am going to look at filling in gaps in your background and how to expand your frame beyond the original image. Photoshop’s Content-Aware tool is perfect for just those jobs.
In part two, I’ll look at blurring the background, adding a texture and some simple lighting effects to enhance the image further.
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Julie Powell is a passionate photographer and educator, running online classes and workshops for still life, macro, food and portraits, based in Melbourne, Australia. Julie is also an award-winning digital artist and photographer who has a deep passion for fine art and conceptual photography, having exhibited in galleries in Europe, USA and Australia. See more of her work on her Website Juliepowellphotography.com or on social media.
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Will have to investigate if I can do this with The Gimp.
Excellent tutorial,
Thank you. Let me know if it works, I have not used that program myself
Couldn’t get on it, maybe it’s because I didn’t click the OH button on cookies?
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