Jason Cypret Videography » Photoshop

Michelle – The Dress

Jason Cypret — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:09:31 +0000

Michelle was surrounded by lots of family and friends. They were having so much fun, and it shows.

Bridal Party

Jason Cypret — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:55:33 +0000

I love walking away shots. They are also real easy on the clients too, no smiling required.

Wedding DVD Cover – Ben & Kezia

Jason Cypret — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:05:00 +0000

I get a lot of questions from clients, and other videographers about my DVD’s. I thought it might be fun to share my latest Wedding DVD design. This also gives you a little insight into all the interworkings of what we offer in a typical wedding package. Believe it or not the DVD cover art tends to be an extremely important part of the overall wedding video. These videos could be passed around for years to come. The DVD cover is the first thing you look at when you see the video.

I have very strong opinions on DVD cover design. I like to use simple, clean layouts that let the images speak for themselves. I avoid background images, neon backgrounds or crazy designs. I just don’t want my wedding DVD’s to look dated in 20 years. Thus, I decided to simplify my designs and challenge myself to shoot images worthy of a simple layout.

The cover below is from Ben & Kezia’s wedding. I usually shoot the images for the cover myself, however we were just too busy shooting video that we didn’t have the extra time to take some snaps. These images were graciously provided by Ivey Photography. As you can see I did a little photoshop magic to them. I think the overall look turned out well. The couple was pleased which means I was pleased.

Chelsea and Jay’s – Before & After with Photoshop

Jason Cypret — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 21:48:31 +0000

I received an email from a reader named Paul. He wanted to know if used photoshop on the image I snapped at Chelsea and Jay’s Wedding. I told him I did and he persuaded me to publish my steps and post a before and after. Well I don’t think this is the forum for a full out tutorial. However, I will post the before and after images, and let you know what filters I used to come up with my final result.

First off I want to say that photoshop is not an excuse to not try to take the best picture possible. I think having a good understanding of your camera, and some knowledge and rules of photography can go a long way. With that being said photoshop can help save a bad image if need be. Take the before image below. I did not have my flash with me, the exposure was off, and it was dusk.

As you can see there is not allot of good things you can say about this image right now. Now comes photoshop. My fist step was to use the shadow and highlights feature. Next I used a awesome program called noise ninja to reduce some of the noise from the overall image. Next I used an adjustment layer and added a curves adjustment. Knowing how to use curves can dramatically change an image. Next I applied an adjustment layer for levels and brightness and contrast. This made a difference, but the color was just not popping, so I added a color balance, and a hue saturation adjustment layer to make the color pop. I still wasn’t getting enough from the greens and yellows, so I added a selective color adjustment layer to make those colors really stand out. Last and probably the most important I added a vignette layer and changed the layer to soft light. That was it. I thought it turned out ok, I probably could tweak with it some more but knowing when to quit is a virtue.

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