Tiki Fun in Photoshop

before


after

Check out the before and after. Usually when you tweak
an image like this where the foreground is dark and the sky light,
you'll have to adjust the foreground so that there's more light.
The drawback is you'll lose the sky because the background
will white out.

To remedy this:

1. Click on a selection tool.
2. Enter a value for feathering in the top menu bar, say, 2.
3. Select the light part of the image. In this case it's the sky.
4. Click on Select>Inverse to switch to get the Tiki selected.
5. Adjust the Levels for the Tiki using Image>Adjustments>Levels.

That's it!

Gotta love this happy guy! He's in Honolulu.

Overexpose for a Beautiful Surprise

Most people think that overexposing a photo is its death. Not so, says Mr. Digital Art Photography for Dummies.

If you put your camera in Tv mode, set the shutter speed to anything from a quarter to one second and snap the picture in a very shady place, you'll have an art piece.

If the image turns out too bright, just tweak the levels (Image>Adjustments>Levels, slide outside sliders inward and inside slider to the crest of the histogram) in Photoshop, and you'll have a perfect impressionistic picture for your home or office.