GSG Cast 03.02: Gradient Maps and Layer Tennis

March 2, 2009

Photoshop Tip: What the hell is a Gradient Map?

Layer Tennis: DK Vs Werk with special guest Justin Cone

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  1. Mars on March 2, 2009 said...

    Nice! Can’t wait to see the volleys. Keep up the awesome GSG casting man, it’s all been great stuff so far.

  2. Vit on March 2, 2009 said...

    hey nick,
    nice tip, thanks for it!
    just wondered if you applied the gradient map on those:
    http://greyscalegorilla.com/index.php?showimage=176
    http://greyscalegorilla.com/index.php?showimage=613
    http://greyscalegorilla.com/index.php?showimage=846
    http://greyscalegorilla.com/index.php?showimage=878
    or are they done with different post-production tools?

  3. thegorilla on March 3, 2009 said...

    Good Eye Vit! I used a Gradient Map on this one. http://greyscalegorilla.com/index.php?showimage=176

    The others however are done with curves. And this one. http://greyscalegorilla.com/index.php?showimage=846 as crazy colors from cross processing film.

  4. Vit on March 3, 2009 said...

    I thought most that the street was done with gradient :-)

    By the way, I started to use your tips with my pictures and it pretty changed my style…I have to say: thanks ;-)

    You can check it out there: http://flickr.com/photos/zemca

  5. Vit on March 3, 2009 said...

    Hi again…
    Nick I just saw my Flickr account at my friend’s PC and it seems that Google Chrome doesn’t support color profiles, so my pics got really poorer colors there…I haven’t tried to found out more, for example if firefox does support and bla bla bla…
    anyway – do you care about color profiles when publishing a picture on the web? I use Adobe RGB and think you use it too also with the JPGs, right?
    thanks man ;-)

  6. j u s t b a n e on March 4, 2009 said...

    Dood!, I just created a wrinkle… awesome idea :)

  7. WillRyan on April 7, 2009 said...

    Sweet, I’ve used Colorama in After Effects for ages, and this feels like the same thing in Photoshop. Don’t know why I never ran into it before, which makes this a great tip for me!

  8. Alex80 on October 22, 2009 said...

    What is your source of water if irrigation becomes necessary? ,

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