Peter Bergdahl's Personal Blog

I’ve taken some time to organize my images lately and found this image i took a couple of years ago when i lived in Guangzhou in southern China.

I went out for some street photography and not far from my home i looked up and saw this window cleaner hanging on a thin rope and stretching all he could to reach the window.

If someone asked me to do it i would strongly object

Window Cleaner in Guangzhou, southern china

What do you think?

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Ok, so in this 3.5 minute video tutorial i’ll show you a super simple way to boost the local contrast without “overcooking” the global contrast in an image.

Here’s a condensed step-by-step guideline in written form:

• Go to Filter -> Sharpen -> Unsharp Mask
• Set Amount to 20
• Radius to 50
• Threshold to 0
• Click OK and you’re done!

You can experiment with Amount from 5-20 and radius from 20-300 pixels.

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In this 4.5 minute video i’ll show you two simple ways to correct leaning horizons using Photoshop CS.

Here’s a condensed checklist of the video.

Method 1:

• Select Analysis -> Ruler Tool
• Place the cross on the horizon, press left mouse button and place the line along the horizon. Release the mouse button
• Go to Image->Rotate Canvas->Arbitrary
• Press OK (rotation angle is already pre-set)
• Crop the white edges around the image
• You’re done

Method 2:

• Select View->Show->Grid
• Select Select->All
• Select Edit->Transform->Skew
• Grab one of the small rectangles and push it upwards to straighten the horizon
• No cropping required
• You’re done

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In this 9 minute video i’ll show you how easy it is to correct even severely over or underexposed images using Adobe Camera RAW.

Here’s a condensed checklist of the video

• Set white balance either by selecting one of the pre-sets or by setting the color temperature and the tint manually. Alternatively use the White Balance tool in the upper tool bar (by selecting a neutral gray area)
• Set the white point with the Exposure slider (right tail of the histogram)
• Use the Recovery slider to recover lost highlights (if required)
• Use the Fill Light slider to open up and give details in dark shadows
• Use the Blacks slider to set the black point (left tail of the histogram)
• Use the Brightness slider to change the mid tones (overall brightness)
• Use the contrast slider to set contrast
• Use the Clarity slider to set mid tone contrast
• Use the saturation slider to increase/reduce saturation
• Use the Clarity slider to set saturation (smart saturation)

That’s it, you’ll see how incredibly easy it is to edit and even rescue badly exposed images using adobe camera RAW.

In this short 4 minute video I’ll show you how to improve color contrast and correct color casts using Adobe Photoshop Levels. It’s really fast and easy as you’ll see.

Here’s a condensed checklist to complement the video:

1. Open the image
2. Select Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Levels
3. Give the layer a unique name or accept the proposed name
4. Select the Red channel
5. Position the black triangle directly under the histogram (not the triangle in the “output levels” section) to the start of the curve
6. Position the white triangle directly under the histogram to the end of the curve.
7. Repeat step 6 for the green and blue channel
8. Click OK
9. You’re done