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- July 14th, 2009
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pvphoto has posted a new entry on: GraphicTutorials.net - Photoshop, graphic design and 3d tutorials.
How to Create a Water Effect on Text and Graphics
One of the many great things about Photoshop is that you can start with a basic idea and then just start experimenting (a.k.a. playing) to see what you get. Although the following technique was origin…
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How To Work With Displacement Maps for Graphics in Photoshop CS4
One of the most creative ways to use the Displace filter in Photoshop is to “map” an imported graphic so it follows the contours of an object in a photo; for example, adding an Illustrator logo to…
- July 13th, 2009
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Avanced Skin Softening Retouching with Photoshop
In this article, Jean-Sébastien offers advice on how to achieve skin softening using low and high pass filtering. The article is enhanced with illustrative figures and screen shots, and includes exam…
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Using Smart Objects for Multimask Effects in Photoshop
Let’s start things off with a photograph that requires sharpening. I captured this image with a Leica D-Lux 3 out the window of my car. In the course of touring the back roads of South Dakota’s Bl…
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Coloring a black and white image with Photoshop
Heres a quick and easy way to color black and white images in Photoshop. 1. Open your black and white image in Photoshop 2. Copy the image onto a new layer 3.Select the paint brush tool and set the mo…
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Impressive Photo Effect with PhotoShop
There’re so many methods to change your photo’s color, but I will show you some best ways to do that, easy to edit. First method: Go to menu Layer ~> New Adjustment Layer ~> Color…
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Working with Levels in photoshop
When considering adjusting the black and white point levels of your histogram, ask yourself: is there any region in the image which should be completely black or white, and does the image…
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Turn a daylight photo into a night shot
This tutorial will show you how to take a low quality, lifeless and dull shot and turn it into a vivid night shot, with street lamp lightening. Just look at the example below and see how can the most…
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Prix Pictet Worlds Photography Award for Environmental Sustainability 2009 Shortlist
A shortlist of twelve outstanding international photographers, from which one will be selected later this year to receive the Prix Pictet, the world’s photography prize for environmental sustainabil…
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5d mark II not worth it ?
Canon has really lost it. It wasn’t so long that I wrote why they have lost it, and it seems that they continue to take hit after hit, not only from the competition, but from their own mistakes as w…
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Hasselblad H3DII-50 or H3DII-60 owner ? Meet Nasa and Hasselblad teams
40 years ago, when the first men stepped out on the lunar surface, in their hands were Hasselblad cameras and - to paraphrase Neal Armstrong - this “small step for man” proved to be a giant leap f…
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LaCinema Rugged HD
LaCie announced today its LaCinema Rugged multimedia hard drive is now available in High Definition – LaCinema Rugged HD. The LaCinema Rugged product range has the most compact, reliable, and mobile…
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Rebate On Large Format Printers from Canon
Canon is offering a rebate on imagePROGRAF large format printers until the end of September iPF5100 - iPF6100 - iPF6200 - iPF8000S - iPF8100 - iPF9000S - iPF9100 PDf with info Related posts:Why use…
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Plugin Galaxy 2
The Plugin Site (http://www.thepluginsite.com) just released Version 2 of Plugin Galaxy for MacOS X. Plugin Galaxy 2 is a plugin for creating special effects and enhancing images with the help of more…
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The Collision Conference announced by Image Mechanics
Image Mechanics, a digital capture studio in Santa Monica known for its educational outreach, today announced the first conference to focus on DSLR hybrid photography and cinematography. The conferenc…
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Topaz Labs Fusion Express Plug-In for Aperture
Topaz Labs releases the long-awaited, Aperture-friendly Topaz Fusion Express for Mac. Topaz Fusion is an Aperture plug-in that allows Topaz Photoshop plug-ins to be imported into Aperture, providing A…
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Fujicolor Pro 800Z will be discontinued by Fujifilm
Fujifilm Professional is to discontinue one of its slower moving lines of film, from September 2009 production of Fujicolor Pro 800Z will cease. The company has a limited supply of the film in stock,…
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Memory Stick PRO-HG Duo HX 32GB from Sony
Bigger, Faster, Better: The New Super-High Capacity 32GB Memory Stick PRO-HG Duo HX Memory Stick PRO-HG Duo HX • Highest available capacity – 32GB comes to Memory Stick HX family • Super-fast 20…
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intro-duck-tion: stop-motion with duck
intro-duck-tion provides a one-minute forty-eight second animated glimpse into my studio and the creation of one of my favorite recent images. The stop-motion footage was shot entirely with still came…
- July 11th, 2009
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The Truth about Michael Jackson’s Final Photo Shoot
The image of Michael Jackson that graces the cover of Q magazine’s August 2009 issue, which coincidentally went to press shortly before Jackson’s tragic death, has been widely circulated a…
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HDR Time Lapse Video
Check this High Dynamic Range time lapse video : Related posts:Eye-Fi Share Video and Eye-Fi Explore Video More than 40% of consumers who share videos think it takes too much time to upload them,…
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A Tribute to KODACHROME
Steve McCurry, whose picture of a young Afghan girl captured the hearts of millions of people around the world as she peered hauntingly from the cover of National Geographic Magazine in 1985, offered…
- July 10th, 2009
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Creative Light Introduces Line of Light Shaping Accessories
A new brand has arrived on the photographic scene, and it seems its designers have hit a home run for today’s pros looking for outstanding light shaping tools at a reasonable price. The brand is Cre…
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Macro Underwater Photography Guide
PART 1: The Basics 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Definitions 1.21 Magnification 1.22 Macrophotography 1.23 Close-up Photography 1.23 Photomicrography 1.24 Photomacrography 1.25 Supermacro Photography PART 2A:…
- July 9th, 2009
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Manfrotto 521i, 521Pro-i and 523Pro-i Remote Controls
Manfrotto is glad to present a completely renewed range of remote controls: the i-Family. Aligning the Manfrotto range with the latest LANC protocols, we improved the current firmware and the internal…
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Sony HDR-CX500V & HDR-CX520V Full HD
Sony today announced its new HDR-CX520V and HDR-CX500V Handycam® camcorders, which capture full1920×1080 high-definition video and up to 12-megapixel photos on a 64GB or 32GB internal flash memo…
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New PIXMA and SELPHY Photo Printers from Canon
Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging, today announced the addition of two new PIXMA Photo All-In-One (AIO) Printers along with one new SELPHY Compact Photo Printer. The two new PIXMA printe…
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Leica D-Lux 4 Safari Camera
Leica Camera will launch the limited edition LEICA D-LUX 4 SAFARI this Autumn. From Scotland to South Africa, from London to Lima – the new LEICA D-LUX 4 in Safari Green is the perfect companion for…
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Datacolor Summer Savings
Datacolor, a global leader in digital color management technology, has announced it is offering a special summer rebate on its popular Spyder3 Elite™ and Spyder3 Pro™ monitor color calibration sys…
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Apple Juicz External Battery
Peartree Photo, the leading distributor of digital technology for professional photographers, announces the apple juicz ™ External Battery for the MacBook Pro (15 and 17‐inch). This new product ch…
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Light, shadow, and specularity
Want full control over the light and shadows in your photography? Understanding how light works is necessary, and this paper will attempt to explain how to affect the lighting, shadow quality, and app…
- July 8th, 2009
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Timelapse Photography at London’s Southbank And Waterloo Bridge
“This is my first video shot on and around Waterloo Bridge in Central London. Shot on a Canon 5D with a 17-40mm, 50mm and a 135mm over 4 hours last week. I ran out of time and hope to do this ar…
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Tone Photographs with Mystical Tint Tone & Color 2.0 Software
Professional Photographers Can Now Quickly Create The Right Mood with Mystical Tint Tone and Color 2.0 from Auto FX Software Mystical Tint Tone and Color 2.0 is a suite of 60 professional imaging filt…
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Incident v.s. Reflected Light Metering
Metering with your digital camera: Incident v.s. Reflected. Covers metering tricks with these two techniques and shows how to improve exposure in your images. Related posts:Portrait Lighting For Beg…
- July 7th, 2009
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Creating a vintage Hollywood portrait
An online search and a trip to the library turned up plenty of vintage Hollywood portraits for study. A closer, objective look at the photographs revealed a few surprises. This is a pretty common part…
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Create a Planet with One Texture
Ok, so over the ages, i noticed that if there is one thing that space artists (especially newcomers) struggle with, then it has to be planet textures. Lots of them just cant get their planets to look…
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Create a Water Color Effect in 10 steps with Photoshop
This time I will create another effect but it will be using Masks and Watercolor brushesl; it’s inspired by another great digital artist, the master Scott Hansen the mind behind ISO 50 and also…
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Fallen Angel Photoshop Manipulation
Learn how to combine several photos to create a dramatic ‘fallen angel’ scene. Paste in a rough looking texture. I chose one of the ‘color fog’ textures Stretch your texture to fit your canvas…
- July 6th, 2009
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Understanding PhotoShop’s Warp Tool
How to use and understand the warp tool morphing and tweaking parts of an image. ” Each of the ads featured a surreal representation of a different region of Colombia and was created by composit…
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Understanding digital image interpolation
Image interpolation occurs in all digital photos at some stage– whether this be in bayer demosaicing or in photo enlargement. It occurs anytime you resize or remap (distort) your image from on…
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Trick for extreme macro photography
Get extreme close ups with two lenses attached together for extreme macro photos Related posts:Introduction to Macro Photography To put it simply, macro photography is close-up photography. There a…
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Create a Gorgeous Glassy Text Effect
First of all open up a new document and fill it in with black. Then add your text using a font you like and the color #00e5ff. Next duplicate the layer by pressing (Command + J), set the layer Opacity…
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Create a Slice of Nature Photo Manipulation
Today I’m going to show you how to put together a complex tree illustration. The idea for this tutorial is to show a workflow from concept to finish, not just so you can copy this illustration,…
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How to use curves with photoshop tutorial
The Photoshop curves tool is perhaps the most powerful and flexible image transformation, yet it may also be one of the most intimidating. Since photographers effectively paint with light, curves is…
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Sigma 200-500mm F2.8 EX DG Lens Review
The Sigma 200-500 f/2.8 is one of the most extreme lenses ever built for the 35mm (24×36) format: it is the only 500mm f/2.8 of the world…and it is even a [...] Re…
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Local Contrast Enhancement with Photoshop tutorial
The trick with local contrast enhancement is that it increases “local” contrast in smaller regions, while at the same time preventing an increase in “global” contrast– th…
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Diffraction in Photography
Diffraction is an optical effect which can limit the total resolution of your photography– no matter how many megapixels your camera may have. Ordinarily light travels in straight lines throug…
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Sigma 200-500mm F2.8 EX DG lens on the field
Shooting handheld with a 1ds mark III and Sigma 200-500mm F2.8 EX DG Some months ago I reviewed the Sigma 200-500 f/2.8. In my first review, I did an in-depth studio test, but I hadn’t many phot…
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Methods for focusing self-portraits
Self-portrait shooters usually rely on the trial-and-error method of focusing. Shoot, shoot, and shoot again until the perfect combination of pose, exposure, and focus are achieved. But there is a bet…
- July 5th, 2009
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Create an Imaginative, Magical Painted Scene
In this tutorial, we will be using several basic tools and stock images to create a fantasy artwork where everything seems to come alive from what is being painted on an old piece of paper. Create a d…
