The Break-out Technique with Barry Beckham

Barry Beckham took to digital photography in the early days when it was still considered a black art by many. He saw the potential of digital photography and the improvements it would bring and began using Photoshop back in the days when it was version 3. Barry has gone on to produce tutorials for many of the UK photography magazines as well as authoring a book for Photoshop Elements.

However, his main passion is creating high quality images using Photoshop and he has become quite an expert in the practical use of this software. He is now producing videos exclusively for ePhotozine.tv using Photoshop and PicturesToExe audio visual software.

Barry is also well know in audio visual circles for his stunning AV shows, many of which can be downloaded from his web site. Barry has lectured all around the UK where his practical skills are constantly in demand.

This technique appears to be very popular among digital photography enthusiasts and it is quite easy to do.

The technique involves Photoshop layers and for this demonstration we use Photoshop CS-4, but any version of Photoshop or Elements can be used to create this image. There is nothing very difficult about any of the steps in this technique, just a little care and attention to detail is all we need.

As usual the success of an image like this is probably 70% due to the image we have chosen to use in the first place as it has to lend itself to this particular effect.

The great thing about this tutorial is that it’s a great learning exercise too.