Note: This video is designed so you can follow along, just click to download Ken’s photograph. In this video, photographer Ken Rockwell joins us to demonstrate the basics of using Adobe Photoshop to touch up and edit photos. Ken first picked up a camera at the age of 5, and since then has been learning about and testing cameras for over 40 years. Additionally, he has been studying digital imaging since the 1970s, so he is very familiar with the art of image processing. Ken goes over the basics of burning and dodging to create contrasts that can either draw the viewer’s eye away or towards a focal point. He demonstrates the usage of layers and masks in Photoshop to lighten and darken photographs. One of the main points he emphasizes is that adjustments on photos must always be subtle, to make them look as natural as possible. If anyone notices the dodging and burning, the magic of the photograph is lost, but done correctly they are essential processing tools.
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This guy is annoying…
This was not suppose to be a Photoshop class
shooting jpeg is stupid
froknowsphoto is a wanker i cant stand the prick
lol, no
I’ve been to Ken’s web site and looked at his Fujifilm X100 photos. I am absolutely appalled at the horrible junk “food” he feeds his children!
Haha, right on.
His head stretches at 2:20……
what a fucking asshole, but i like his reviews for a basic general idea
i thought Ken Rockwell never uses photoshop?
Ken Rockwell is a piece of shit. He exploits newcommers to photography for his own profit. Honestly, this guy is the ultimate scum in terms of the photographic world.
ALIEN!
fro knows photo DOT COM !
Rockwell is such a Boy Scout faggot.
Am i the only one, who likes ken rockwell?
You misspelled “Jared Polin” there.
god, he was looking even more puchable in the face when he was young
REPTILIAN!!11!
They’re both sell outs that people shouldn’t listen to. The internet has great videos for beginners, but I spent my time reading books and applying what I read out in the field doing it. They’re both dirt bags.
Perhaps, but apart from not being a nice guy, I have never ever caught Polin exercising anything that could possibly resemble useful knowledge and skill.At least Rockwell has a fairly good grasp of the technology and the theory.
Ken Rockwell is just more of a hypocrite, talking so much shit about this and that, and then saying another thing in a video. He says he always shoots JPEG, bullshit, he’s an idiot. But Polin is a close second.
I tend to think that elitists like Polin are more damaging to a healthy community. Purposefully obfuscating, what are in essence quite straightforward concepts, with nonsensical artsy bullshit. And teaching not how to make a good picture, but how to argue why it is a good picture. That is why Polin is the ultimate jerk in my opinion.
Yes he is annoying.
Mr Saturation – Ken Rockwell is a talentless gimp!
really annoying
Wow! Can’t believe how many negative remarks about a man who by his very nature..keeps the interest going in this video. I’ve been reading his work for some time now and find it very educational those wanting to learn what equipment is out there.
“I’ve made beautiful 60×40 inch prints from a 6MP camera”………. Yeh.
dont know why people hate Ken rockwell so much. He seem to know a lot about photography and his site is very informative. Sometimes its a bit inconsistent for eg: there is an article about sharpness where he says sharpness doesn’t matter. But in another article he says get prime lens for sharp images. He says megapixel doesn’t matter and he bought d880e himself.But apart from this inconsistency most of the other information and techniques he is posting on his blog is very useful.
dodging and burning is really bad for your photos. it seriously harms the pixels and you can’t bring them back.
Ken is a very knowledgeable guy but I don’t really like his arrogance sometimes and he’s a little too self-centered.
I think the hate for Rockwell seen on YouTube is only down to rather impressionable people who have never seen his pictures or read any of his reviews watching this stupid Polin rant. Doesn’t make a lot of sense, but this is YouTube…..
Indeed, people want their guru, knowledge and skill are not a prerequisite for that. In fact, I think most people do not want to learn, they just want to be told they are doing the right thing, even if it’s arbitrary or just plain wrong.I think this is the human condition, it’s just easily observable on youtube.
Im really puzzled as to why there is so much hate on Ken everywhere,the guy has personally replied to my emails.His site is a massive abundance of information.He is a very skilled engineer so is no idiot regarding Digital equipment,has an open mind regarding Nikon/Canon.Photography is at times complicated and everyone will occasionally contradict them selves.On the whole I have found Kens information to be 100% correct.His knowledge far exceeds some of the Jerks who slag him off!!!
Here’s a question that will help you decide if someone is a professional (at least with people and weddings) photographer or not: would you be willing to pay $5,000+ for them for a wedding package?
hahahahahahah
Ken go home your drunk.. The lip licking is gross also unwatchable..
super IDIOT ken rockwell indeed, his idiot face tell that
Ken is just a massive troll. He would get better results shooting RAW.
That’s why you should do it on masks, so the original photo is not compromised
Ken Rockwell… Teaching Photoshop to photographers from the 70′s who don’t know what Photoshop is.
People “hate” him because while definitely having a lot of technical knowledge of cameras he gives a shitload of conflicting opinions across his site which Google seems to push to the top so often. It’s a vicious cycle and so many new photographers go to his site. On top of that he is a fairly mediocre photographer while constantly describing himself as a pro who is at the very top. Oh… and he hates raw files which makes him either an idiot or super troll.He
He is a joke.