Comments on: A Photoshop Tutorial: The Dragan Method Demystified

By: clarice

clarice — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 19:01:13 +0000

great tutorials..thanks..

By: pinkdog

pinkdog — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:40:53 +0000

Kinda not very draganish at the end there either.. all the scrolling back through history states.. wth? pfftt sorry the process is a mess..

By: ModelMike

ModelMike — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 09:55:41 +0000

Excellent work Keitha, thank you. The use of the hard/soft light blending modes is very instructive.

Incidentally, I tried recording this as an action, but my build of Photoshop CS2 seems to have a bug in the action recorder: duplicating layers across the original and duplicate images by dragging is not recorded in the action. So when you come to run the action it gets confused as to the layers. Maybe it’s fixed in CS3…

By: dportal

dportal — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:08:29 +0000

keitha,
I’m a fan of your photography @ dpr. Thanks for this tutorial.
dp

By: Daniel LeGrand

Daniel LeGrand — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:08:25 +0000

About this step in the tutorial;

Now go back to the original, color image. Choose the “Move” tool in the upper left hand menu and drag the color image on top of the Duo tone image. You might have to adjust it so that they overlap exactly. If you’re having trouble doing this, try changing the opacity of the color image so you can see the Duo tone beneath to line up exactly.

After you start dragging the color image, hold down the “Shift” key. When you got it over the Duo tone image, release the mouse button, and then release the Shift Key. Holding down the Shift key, perfectly centers the image, so as long as both images are the same size, they will align perfectly.