Photoshop Techniques. In this article u can see some of my photoshop techniques.

I always shoot in RAW format , I open the files with Nikon Capture Nx and make the conversion from RAW to TIFF.I use Capture Nx because offers me great image quality.After that i open the TIFF with Adobe Photoshop CS5 and make the rest job.On photoshop i have installed few plugins that helps me to have better results.

Viveza 2 brings a whole new time-saving dimension to your image editing. No complicated selections or layer masks to wear you down. Point, click, slide and voilá - fine-detail structure control, and shadow recovery. Viveza 2 will forever change the way you edit images.I use this plugin mainly for landscapes.

Dfine 2.0 gives you unprecedented control over exactly how much and where to apply noise reduction. This makes it ultra-easy to eliminate noise in your images while maintaining detail and sharpness, thus improving the quality of every digital photo you take. Dfine 2.0 is designed to prevent the loss of detail other noise reduction tools often introduce.

Color Efex Pro 4 provides the most comprehensive set of enhancements for color correction, retouching, and creative effects. Quickly stylize your photographs, retouch portraits with ease, and extend your creativity with unmatched control and versatility

Portraiture is a plugin that eliminates the tedious manual labor of selective masking and pixel-by- pixel treatments to help you achieve excellence in portrait retouching. It intelligently smoothens and removes imperfections while preserving skin texture and other important portrait details such as hair, eyebrows, eyelashes etc.

Here some examples:

Photo from Madonna Di Campiglio (Post Processing with Viveza 2.0)

Photo from Rome (Post Processing with Viveza 2.0 and Dfine 2.0)

Photo from Santorini (Post processing with Viveza 2.0)

Photo from Maldives (Post processing on Photoshop CS5)

Photo from Santorini ( Post processing on Photoshop CS5)

Post processing with Portraiture and Photoshop Liquify