The Underwater Lounge

Hey everyone! After a great vacation to the ends of the Earth, The Underwater Lounge is back for another exciting episode. Today, we are going to take a look at one way to create compelling black and whites from your colored images. While there are numerous ways to achieve this in Photoshop, many techniques leave your images looking flat and uninteresting. Here is a professional way to generate some high contrast snap for an image when you want to take the color away. And yes, you can apply it to all your underwater and topside images too. Enjoy!

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Welcome back everyone! For this week’s tip I have decided to show another lesson sample off the home page of Underwater Photoshop. I am in the process of re-rendering the example Flash movies for faster upload times so users with slow connections can enjoy them too, and figured I should just test them right here in the Underwater Lounge. This weeks lesson shows how easy it is to create a very professional looking artistic frame in which to showcase both your underwater and topside images. The technique is easy and fun to do with limitless possibilities. Enjoy!

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I have a new column in June/July edition of Scuba Diver Australasia, one of Asia’s coolest dive magazines titled the Photo Shop. The article features a tutorial on how to sharpen images using the High Pass Filter. You can view the tutorial by logging on to www.scubadiveraa.com and follow along as you work on one of your own images. Check it out, you’ll see it on their home page on the right hand side. I have decided to include it here as Episode 2 since the video is highly compressed and quite small on the magazine’s website for bandwidth reasons. Click on the image you see here or one of the links below to learn how to sharpen your underwater images with the High Pass filter. Enjoy!

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