Posts by Author: Stefan Kohler
Stefan Kohler is a full-time retoucher. He’s from Germany and likes bacon. In the last years, he built up a broad community around his retouching classes at the Infinite tool’s website.
Curves Adjustments Layers 101 (With 10 Examples)
Jan 13, 2016
Stefan Kohler
A few days ago, we posted that little fun game about curves. You should go and try it now! Some people really struggled with this one,…
How Good Are You With Curves?
Jan 10, 2016
Stefan Kohler
Curves are somewhat of a panacea when it comes to Photoshop adjustment layers. With curves you can do pretty much anything you can do with the…
Tethered Shooting – From Camera To Computer To 60″ IPS Panel
Nov 25, 2015
Stefan Kohler
This article will take you through a journey to the perfect tethering solution. It is a curvy path, but the end is very fine tuned….
How To Edit A Woman Trapped In Ice Portrait
Nov 22, 2015
Stefan Kohler
How do you go about shooting a portrait of a woman trapped in ice? Of course I could not actually sink a model under a frozen lake,…
Using Masks and Channels For Object Extraction
Nov 17, 2015
Stefan Kohler
Being a pretty diverse tool, Photoshop suggests many ways to accomplish each task. And each has its pros and cons. One of the more powerful…
The Power Of Color and Color Harmonies In Composition
Nov 9, 2015
Stefan Kohler
About two weeks ago, we hosted a workshop with the amazing Natalia Taffarel. Now, I am back at the studio and I am having some mixed feelings. Mixed…
Dodge & Burn – With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility
Nov 2, 2015
Stefan Kohler
If you split an image into its most basic components, you can look at each pixel as the sum of the following info: Brightness Color…
High Key, Low Key, Or Just Badly Exposed?
Oct 29, 2015
Stefan Kohler
Here is Wikipedia’s definition for Low-Key Lighting: Low-key lighting is a style of lighting for photography, film or television. It is a necessary element in creating…
Gear Does Matter, But Not How You Thought It Does
Sep 8, 2015
Stefan Kohler
The most popular (and worn out) “advice” given to aspiring photographers is probably “It doesn’t matter which camera you use”. But is that really true?…
The Peter-Coulson Look – A Lighting Exercise
Jul 17, 2015
Stefan Kohler
As someone who describes himself a “Facebook Enthusiast”, I have a lot of photographers in my timeline. Probably 100 are constantly popping up, some of…