I share my photoshop techniques

[TreesOfMyTime]

I have tried several times and between having to reboot and not understand where to actually buy. . . I am confused, but then I am an OLD Chemical Darkroom - film man trying to make it in a digital World!

My life in 6 words: My Vocation, Photograhy. My Hobby, Wine!

[Calvinhollywood]

Hi
I dont understand the problems.
Write me an email where are the problems
calvin@calvinhollywood.de

1. you click on my website http://www.calvinhollywood-blog.com
2. Click on training/tutorials in menue
3. click on the picture (the shop will open - turn of your pop up blocker)
4. click inside the shop on my training calvinize
5. add to card
6. click on card and check out

lg Calvin

[Quantum3]

Originally Posted by TreesOfMyTime

I have tried several times and between having to reboot and not understand where to actually buy. . . I am confused, but then I am an OLD Chemical Darkroom - film man trying to make it in a digital World!

My life in 6 words: My Vocation, Photograhy. My Hobby, Wine!

I told you not to mix the wine with the chemicals!

[Quantum3]

Originally Posted by Calvinhollywood

6. click on card and check out

Bro, you should polish your English to sell more! Adding: please, help your self, would you (mind, like), may I (help you), can I (help you), could you (help me, tell me). These ones work good ^^

[Quantum3]

By the way, couldn't find nothing related to paypal in the shop area. That's the only way I'm allowed to buy something

[punctum]

I had no problems to buy the training, just started to watching, great works thx a lot, I do retouch on my own works since 10 years but I dont work as pro-retoucher, usally I just take the picture and let the retoucher do his work on my leading. That why I cant practice that much. But your training show me very short ways and I see how a loong way I use, to go to the same result. Thx again for publishing your style.


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Sry about my English.
my works: www.studio-tr.com

[Quantum3]

Originally Posted by punctum

I had no problems to buy the training, just started to watching, great works thx a lot, I do retouch on my own works since 10 years but I dont work as pro-retoucher, usally I just take the picture and let the retoucher do his work on my leading. That why I cant practice that much. But your training show me very short ways and I see how a loong way I use, to go to the same result. Thx again for publishing your style.


________________

Sry about my English.
my works: www.studio-tr.com

oooooohhhhhhhhh How did you paid it? Is there any PayPal thing?

[punctum]

Originally Posted by Quantum3

oooooohhhhhhhhh How did you paid it? Is there any PayPal thing?

No only Credit card.

[Quantum3]

Will try with my debit card when charged

[punctum]

@Calvinhollywood
sry but I have to say I m very disappointed when I saw your "extracting from green screen" training. The technique you use is also in my opinion the most common and the best way, I use it also for many years. But the picture you choose in your training is very very easy. A soldier with a helmet and a less saturated opposite color from the background. I would prefer to see how you handle with light color model while her hairs blowig in wind. Maybe also with a blowing veil.
Actually I tried it many times, as my profession is bridal photography, I take many pictures like that. But its not so perfect to do that when you choose green or blue background because the reflections on a blond or red hair is not so easy to loose with de-saturation, you ll also lose the color from the hair. That why, when I ll change the background behind the model I try to use a closer color at the background to the image that I ll put back. And it takes a lot of time to make it perfect. If you have any other suggestions I ll be very glad to know them.

[Quantum3]

Originally Posted by punctum

@Calvinhollywood
sry but I have to say I m very disappointed when I saw your "extracting from green screen" training. The technique you use is also in my opinion the most common and the best way, I use it also for many years. But the picture you choose in your training is very very easy. A soldier with a helmet and a less saturated opposite color from the background. I would prefer to see how you handle with light color model while her hairs blowig in wind. Maybe also with a blowing veil.
Actually I tried it many times, as my profession is bridal photography, I take many pictures like that. But its not so perfect to do that when you choose green or blue background because the reflections on a blond or red hair is not so easy to loose with de-saturation, you ll also lose the color from the hair. That why, when I ll change the background behind the model I try to use a closer color at the background to the image that I ll put back. And it takes a lot of time to make it perfect. If you have any other suggestions I ll be very glad to know them.

Punctum, could you write more stuff about the DVD?

He also have a technique that uses a gray background explained in his youtube chanel. Just youtube his name to get there. That may help you.

[Calvinhollywood]

@Punctum
I show on this training all the techniques what i use.
Grey background, white background and green background.
I also explain techniques when you have to work with channels.

If i have to explain all the variations of extrcting i have to do a own dvd.
My friend did one for the german market and it runns more then 8 hours.

My training is for people who are interestet in my work and how i work.
Its not a training for extracting hairs, beauty retouching basics or something else.

If you know (before you take the picture) that you would change the background its easy.
Choose grey, green or white (depetns on the hair color).
But if you place your light right you can work easy with green (doesent matter what haircolor- ok no green hairs*g*)

lg Calvin

[Quantum3]

Originally Posted by Calvinhollywood

@Punctum
I show on this training all the techniques what i use.
Grey background, white background and green background.
I also explain techniques when you have to work with channels.

If i have to explain all the variations of extrcting i have to do a own dvd.
My friend did one for the german market and it runns more then 8 hours.

My training is for people who are interestet in my work and how i work.
Its not a training for extracting hairs, beauty retouching basics or something else.

If you know (before you take the picture) that you would change the background its easy.
Choose grey, green or white (depetns on the hair color).
But if you place your light right you can work easy with green (doesent matter what haircolor- ok no green hairs*g*)

lg Calvin

Calvin, who's your friend? I would like to buy his DVD too. I'm willing to spend all my money in tutorials! (when getting it, in few days, haha).

[Calvinhollywood]

http://www.video2brain.com/de/products-483.htm

But in german language

lg Calvin

[punctum]

Originally Posted by Quantum3

Punctum, could you write more stuff about the DVD?
He also have a technique that uses a gray background explained in his youtube chanel. Just youtube his name to get there. That may help you.

Ok maybe it is also in the training videos just couldn't find enough time watch all. I ll check the youtube videos also.
About the training videos, I can say (imo) it worths the many, he have a very clean and always returnable working style. I started to work on photoshop at 1994 and I remember there wasn't any history only 1 undo. As I sad before since 4-5 years I m more behind the camera then front of the computer and because the busy work cant find enough time to improve my retouch skills that why some of my working style is now little old fashioned and slow. And this training videos looks up to date. Such I wasnt so familiar with smart objects and smart filters before I watch the training. It is better I share my opinions after I watch all trainings. But for beginning I can say just to the publisher thx to share his experience.

[Caesium]

I will jump in and add my own thoughts on shooting for composites here since it has came up.

Keep in mind that green and blue screen were both developed for video. Ok, now read that last sentence again. Video, that is what green/blue screen is intended to address.

Motion pictures fly by at 24 frames a second. That means that for every minute of footage to be used as a composite, there are 1440 images that need to be keyed. To be viable, there had to be a way to do this stuff in a "quick and dirty" environment. Welcome to our green and blue screens.

The choice for these two colors came from the fact that they are furthest from the skin tones, pure shadows, and pure highlights that will appear in most all th e footage produced leaving only the set crew, wardrobe, and makeup to work around the color limitations in their designs. Essentially, the whole process was put into a streamlined, standard operating procedure so to be user friendly to the film industry as a whole.

Now lets switch to still photography world. We don't have 100's of thousands of frames to edit. We have one. Maybe a few if we were trigger happy and can't decide between the shots. This allows us to be much more picky and plan our shoots with much more control. As Calvin mentioned, black, white, gray, green, blue, canary yellow, violet, and so on will all work exceptionally for creating composites SO LONG AS you plan your shot ahead of time and take care to be sure the background color will not appear in your foreground.

The morale of the story is the photographer can and needs to plan each image to the absolute best of their ability. That goes beyond shutter speed, aperture, and iso to include lighting, set, wardrobe, makeup and anything else that should possibly affect the image.

As always, if you are not doing this now, it seems as if it would be a ton of extra work to add in on top of what you are already doing, however, force yourself to work at these areas and before long, it will become another part of your creative thinking and flow as easily as walking and breathing at the same time.

[Quantum3]

Love the Caesium speech. Want him for president!

[woofw]

It takes a while to understand where to buy and download after you click on the tutorials, but i managed it after payment. The email send after payment is in german tho.

[Quantum3]

LOL yeah, and the agreetment too, but somehow all those twist are funny ^^

[Calvinhollywood]

We work on that.
I promise
Thanks for your Feedback

lg calvin

[Caesium]

Originally Posted by Quantum3

Love the Caesium speech. Want him for president!

Lol, thanks! =)

[gamedonechanged]

Apologies if this has already been posted somewhere here but are there any before or after shots of pics in the training series?

[Calvinhollywood]

Ohmm.... there are working files but no before - after shots.
Maybe some but not at all.
You can see in the movie/tutorial the before -after.

lg Calvin

[George Disario]

Please forgive me but I have tried once again to log in so I can buy your lessons.
Is there any way you can make it simple?
This is the second half hour that I have spent trying to give you money.
Please help.

Thanks,
George

[TreesOfMyTime]

Originally Posted by George Disario

Please forgive me but I have tried once again to log in so I can buy your lessons.
Is there any way you can make it simple?
This is the second half hour that I have spent trying to give you money.
Please help.

Thanks,
George

I have had similar problems and He has tried to help me to no avail. I am ruined by Amazon's point and click. If there are too many things to do, I lose the pathway. Probably generational! LOL

[Quantum3]

I easily could register myself into the site but didn't tryed to buy the stuff yet.

[Calvinhollywood]

Please write me per email the exact problem.
Many people ordered and they dont have problems.
Check that you dont have a pop up blocker and that your are logged in

P.S
You cant login if you dont have payed:-)
you have to add the training into the card and then check out

lg calvin

[TreesOfMyTime]

Originally Posted by Calvinhollywood

Please write me per email the exact problem.
Many people ordered and they dont have problems.
Check that you dont have a pop up blocker and that your are logged in

P.S
You cant login if you dont have payed:-)
you have to add the training into the card and then check out

lg calvin

Calvin!

I finally was able to complete my order!. I spent over an hour and one half combined over several tries to accomplish this. The reason, as it turns out is that I could not see the words "Shopping Cart" in the green box in the upper right had corner of the screen. You need to provide a contrasting font color if you can! Thank you and I am sorry that I could not complete the order sooner
!
Regards,

Don LaVange


On Feb 7, 2010, at 8:42 PM, calvin@calvinhollywood.de wrote:

{Salutation}!

Thank you very much for your order!
Your order is currently processed. As soon as the payment is completed successfully you will have access to the purchased products. In some cases his may take up to 45 minutes.

You will receive an email with a PDF invoice. In "My Profile" you can view your orders and download the invoices any time.

We wish you a lot of fun and success with your new online training!

[Calvinhollywood]

In my browser it looks like that
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Its ugly green and i saw it from the beginning.

Maybe you have a other color?

lg Calvin

[punctum]

Actually I want to say I had no problems with order or login or something else on the website. I first registered on the web site (http://www.calvinhollywood-blog.com/...Trainings.html) by clicking on the "not registered yet" boutton on the right corner, then: products---> ad to chart (red button) ---> shopping chart (green button on the right up corner) ---> procced to check out ( new pop up window) and enter your cc information and tata its done. And just waited some a few minutes and refreshed the website and I was able to watch the training or download it. Thats all.