Tutorial 9, Chapter 3 - Gun

Ok I know I promised to keep the show length down but I had so much competitiony goodness to tell you about this week that I kinda over-ran my 30 minutes again. Sorry! But on the bright side this week you get the chance to win a ColorVision Spyder 2 PRO in our first ever PhotoWalkthrough Challenge! The topic of the challenge is "Colour" and all you have to do to win is take a photo inspired by that topic, upload it to Flickr and tag it with "pwchallenge1".

On today's show we convert Michelle's image to a gradient mapped sepia tone and add even more grunge using those Nagel brushes. And at the end I finish up by quickly showing you an image by Agnes Liu that does a similar job of distressing a photo. Inspiring stuff!

• Michelle Jones Photography
• Agnes Liu on Flickr
• The PhotoWalkthrough Colour Challenge - win a Spyder 2 PRO!

Tutorial 9, Chapter 3 - Gun

Tutorial 9, Chapter 2 - Gun

It's another monster of a show. This week I over-ran to 33 minutes. Sorry about that - I'll try and keep it under 30 minutes in future. Lots of good stuff in there, though. Today I talk about brushes, especially how to load brush sets and modify your own brushes to get the effect you want. We use those brushes on Michelle's Gun image to add "grunge". I also take the time to go back over some more selection techniques that I missed out last week. Turns out I could easily do an hour just on making selections alone!

Also this week I'm upping the production values a little by adding some music during the announcements. I even added a quick fly-in info panel part way through. Let me know if you like the additions! Big thanks to Peter Marquardt - Chris' brother - for the new music.

• Michelle Jones Photography
• David Nagel's Series 5 brush set
• David Nagel's Creative Mac website
• Peter Marquardt's Lastfuture website

Tutorial 9, Chapter 2 - Gun