Recent Posts Tagged With 'photoshop'

• HDR Photo with the iPhone

  Posted on Tuesday December 15th, 2009 at 06:49 in photoshop, winter, Technique, snow

  The new 3G iPhone is one good camera to have integrated with your cell phone.  The main feature for HDR is the ability to select different areas of the scene and at the same time bracket your exposure. Then with Photoshop or other similar photo-...

• Painterly Effect with Photo Enhancement Techniques

  Posted on Wednesday August 26th, 2009 at 12:03 in photoshop, Technique, cityscape, absract

  While deciding on an image to work on and achieve something special, I remembered a scene while in Copenhagen this spring. It was early morning and there was this lovely textured stucco wall in the dappled light with bicycles, benches and an old oak...

• Morning Ground Fog

  Posted on Saturday August 1st, 2009 at 08:32 in photoshop, landscape, Technique

  One of my favourite shooting conditions is foggy weather. Winter being especially nice with its white bleakness and it’s ability to isolate and create soulful subjects. An article on Winter Fog – Great Photography Weather Living in a mix...

• Use ACR Clarity to create shallow DOF

  Posted on Monday April 27th, 2009 at 10:08 in photoshop, action, paintings and drawings

  With a few of my previous images I have used the Adobe Camera RAW (ACR) “Clarity” settings to improve the focus (clarity) of the subject and in corollary reduce the detail in the background, which is very similar to using a higher F-stop or shall...

• Masking a Yellow & Blue Flower

  Posted on Sunday January 18th, 2009 at 15:39 in photoshop, flowers, macro

  Where I live, a deep cold sets in every now and then (Ottawa the coldest capitol in the world). The one good point about –33 degrees is that it doesn’t matter whether it’s in C or F. It’s the same and it’s very cold.This week I thought I w...

• Winter Fog – Great Photography Weather

  Posted on Monday January 12th, 2009 at 07:08 in photoshop, winter

  I was going to say the ”best” weather but I’m sure that it’s not really the case as there are a few downsides over more perfect weather, especially if you hate the cold and then have to be near cars when there is fog.Still I think this is an ...

• Printing Your Own Business Cards and Book Marks

  Posted on Sunday December 14th, 2008 at 12:40 in photoshop, Technique, night photography

  Since this belongs to a Photography Blog, I feel that I should at least insert a few pretty ordinary pictures even if I am going to discuss printing your own business cards and bookmarks.On Friday night the moon was at its closest distance to earth (...

• The Many Colours of Fall

  Posted on Sunday October 19th, 2008 at 15:49 in photoshop, water, landscape, fall

  I was visiting a good friend for a Thanksgiving weekend (Canadian), which in Ontario is just at the peak of the Fall colours. I brought my camera to get some photos of their grandkids playing around and maybe other images of the other guests celebrat...

• The Red Barn and Hay Fields

  Posted on Monday October 13th, 2008 at 12:36 in photoshop, landscape, Technique, old buildings, b and w

  I was reviewing some images to select for this weeks post, which was to be on a beautiful wooden 12th century Norwegian Heddal Stave Church. While playing around, undertaking serious fine-art editing, I thought that maybe the image I was working on w...

• The Magicians

  Posted on Sunday May 11th, 2008 at 08:17 in photoshop, flowers, Technique

  First, since it is Mother’s Day in Canada and the United States, for all mothers, soon to be mothers and all those who had mothers - a very special thanks to the kind love and warm you gave me.Do click on any image for a larger versionIn this weeks...