Digital Imaging Magic - Pink Bubbly

Nicole in lovely pink and warm bubbly personality. Aww......... Don't you feel like cuddling now?

Digital Imaging Magic - Color Me Beautiful

Fann - The mastermind and magical hands that creates awesome makeup for the models. Are you the next lucky person?

Digital Imaging Magic - Lit Me on Fire

Another great work from Cloudie. Luring expression with great composure. Cloudie, you are on FIRE!

Digital Imaging Magic - Color My Li-fe

Lianne, yes its the bear killer here! (She gave me that nickname after witnessing me strangling a teddy bear with a red scarf)

I hope you enjoy this piece of digital effect I have embedded for you!

Digital Imaging Magic - Reflection

Nicole, a very nice and bubbly lady with beautiful eyes and outstanding features. Deadly sexy too.. Hang on to your seats ladies and gentlemen...

Digital Imaging Magic - Photographer's Power

Aylwin - The man behind the camera lens and my friend who has the guts to allow me to vandalise his images using photoshop. Kuddos!


Now... Who says only the models shines?

PS: Nike, appealing isn't it? Email me! Muahahhaha!

Digital Imaging Magic - Genie

"You better rub me the right way....."

Digital Imaging Magic - Streaming

Welna, a lady with minimalistic flair... Let the synchronizing lines streams around you...

Digital Imaging Magic - Bedazzled

Lets reward ourselves with images of pretty ladies and digital eye candies. =D


Credits to Zee. Super tall and gorgeous lady! Stop drooling guys!

Digital Imaging Magic - Rainbow Sparkle

I'm really thrilled to learn advance masking and rendering on this image. Turns out to be really cool! Thanks to Aylwin for allowing me to "mess" around his images! Hope you guys like it! Kaka!

Digital Imaging - Convert Color Images into Black and White

There are numerous methods you can adopt to convert a color image into black and white. I will like to introduce and compare two useful quick tricks of conversion, and will also highlight certain enhancement to make your image look better.

In this tutorial, I will be using Adobe Photoshop CS4.

The quickest and easiest method to convert an image to B&W will be using Desaturate tool.

Image -> Adjustments -> Desaturate

A ten seconds job, but as you can see in the top right hand image, it has very low contrast, and it appears darker and flat.

Another method will be using Photoshop Black & White tool.

Photoshop's Black & White Tool is new to CS3 and CS4 and it works differently from the Channel Mixer and Lab Colour methods that have been well adopted previously. The black and white tool is easy to use and you don't need a degree in graphic design to get to grips with it.

Image -> Adjustments -> Black & White

When you look at the Black & White dialog box, you will see that there is an option called Present. You are recommended to trial and error with the different types of presets. For this image, I am using High Contrast Red Filter where Cyan is reduced significantly, along with Blue and also Green. Red, Magenta and Yellow are all drastically increased. This tends to produce a bright, but contrasted effect as per left lower image.

To make life easier, download the Photoshop action Here and use it to automatically convert your image using Black & White tool in one click.

To install or import the action, refer to the following link:

http://eatcookshoot.blogspot.com/2010/02/installing-photoshop-actions.html

Very often in low key shoot, the eyes of the subject tends to look slightly dull. Using a soft white brush with 40-50 percent opacity, create a catchlight and moon as per lower right image. As eyes are often the crucial factor in a portrait, this will instantly liven up the image.

Good luck & have fun!

Credits:
Rebecca Chen & Aylwin's Photography

Installing Photoshop Actions

An action is a series of tasks that you play back on a single file or a batch of files - menu commands, palette options, tool actions, and so on. You can create an action that changes the size of an image, applies a filter to the image for a particular effect, and then saves the file in the desired format. Nice, isn’t it !

Installing actions on your computer is rather straight forward. You can install the action file anywhere on your computer hard disk. It does not have to be installed in the Photoshop directory hierarchy.

Once you have copied the action file onto your computer, you have to load the actions within Photoshop so that the actions are available for use. To load the actions, select "Load Actions ..." from the Actions palette menu as shown below:

Locate your action file and select the "Load" button. Your actions are added to the Actions palette.

Reference: http://www.imphotography.com/downloads/installactions.htm
http://www.visual-blast.com/photoshop/

Digital Imaging Magic - Simply Dreamy

Combining vector with images. Results turn out quite well indeed. =D

Digital Imaging Magic - Dimension

Thanks to Rebecca Chen and Aylwin for this amazing picture!

Smokey Babe

One of my most ambitious project. Incorporating a big portion of hand drawn smoke techniques and merging real life image into smoke and fire. Sexy! I can feel my digital imaging leveling up! *Raising aura appears around body*

Fury

My first attempt with fire. Not too great but ain't too bad either. Must find something to burn!!!

Cyborg 2199

It's been a while since I last sat down and focus on serious digital imaging. Besides modeling and being a big foodie, messing around in photoshop is one of my favorite pastime. I can really spend hours and hours on enhancing one single image. The outcome will always be really fruitful and satisfying as I explore new techniques and tricks.

Check out one of my latest work as above! Cyborg Novia with a real cool background. Enjoy!

Digital Imaging Magic

I've always have a passion for multimedia especially digital imaging. Thanks to Aylwin and Felix for inviting me to the SUPER last minute shoot that was really fun. And I'm really inspired to whip out my..... mouse to play with some digital enhancements. (Yes yes yes... I NEED a Walcom board!!! Any kind souls will sponsor me one???)


Thanks Fann for the fantastic makeup! In this image, I have redrew the catchlight, moon and added in iris veins. The makeup was also touched up and enhanced further. A tighter crop was perform and some cloning on the top to focus the entire image on the face.


Red hot passion! I love the composition for this image. Basic cleaning up of the face was performed and as usual, I will redraw and enhance the eyes even more. Red cloth was cloned to lengthen it and a overall red gel like lighting was added to bring out the mood.

Photographer: Aylwin & Felix
MUA: Fann
Model: Cloudie & Novia

PS: Cloudie, if you are reading this, I hope you like the picture!!! =D