The Underwater Lounge

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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 Episode 2 - High Pass Sharpening [9:28m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Hello and welcome to the first show! In this episode, we are going to take a look at one way to quickly and effectively correct an underexposed image. This is a great technique to use when just starting out in Photoshop and is also quite effective for experienced Photoshop users and shooters with lots of images that don’t merit a full blown session of exposure adjustment using the Curves or Exposure commands of Adobe Photoshop. While the technique is quite easy to learn, advanced users will appreciate the unique way the Apply Image Command is used to quickly create an effective layer mask for optimum exposure correction in an image. Enjoy and don’t be surprised at what you might just learn. Stay tuned for some more exciting news and video tutorials real soon!

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 Episode 1 - Correcting Underexposed Images [10:46m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Hello everyone, and welcome to the Underwater Lounge, an exciting new place to learn all sorts of creative tips and techniques for editing and enhancing your underwater and topside images. The Lounge will also serve as the online home and blog of me, your host Doug Sloss, and be a place where digital photographers can pick up some interesting techniques to help edit and improve their photography with a strong concentration on underwater imagery.

Tune in each week for the video podcast which will feature a 5 to 10 minute technique using Adobe Photoshop mostly geared toward underwater shooters. The easy-to-follow video lessons will feature a range of techniques designed for intermediate to advanced users, yet will be presented in such a way that even beginners will be able to follow along and become productive users of Photoshop in no time.

As with most things in life, the Underwater Lounge will forever be an evolving work in progress. Enjoy the ride!