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Category Archives: Photo Editing and Digital Workflow
Layer Masks in Elements 4.0 – Adding Missing Essential Photoshop Tools to Elements
When I first bought Elements it was after having used the full Photoshop package for a few years. I was assured by whoever I asked that the major features were present. And they are, to a point. It is only when you try to do something and search the help and nearly throw your mouse through the window that you realise that the few important missing bits are really important!
For example, there is only so long before you find yourself searching help on using layer masks in photoshop elements and find that it isn’t there!.
Search no longer! Get yourself over to Elements Tools
Follow the instructions and you will soon find several features missing in elements and wonder why Adobe dropped them when the package can clearly do it …
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HDR Photography In NY Times
You know the bandwagon is well and truly rolling when the traditional media pick up on it, check out the profile of Flickrite Kris Kros (Joe Dejesus) in the New York Times
H.D.R. is one of many digital darkroom techniques catching the fancy of amateur photographers. With the rising popularity of digital single-lens reflex cameras and more powerful personal computers has come a growing interest in visual experiments. At the same time, software makers like Adobe are increasingly automating many of those processes, including H.D.R. While they may not always be straightforward, tricky digital techniques no longer require months of experience or hours of study.
Fad or not, his pictures can be very very cool. It is well worth spending some time skimming through his photostream. Definitely deserves the attention.
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Photographer Ethics: Should the camera never lie?
Two stories about Newspapers “doctoring” images, one laughable, the other more serious from The Digital Photography Weblog
the Charlotte Observer has sacked a staff photographer for altering the colour of an image to, as he states, “to restore the actual color of the sky”. He said the color was lost when he underexposed the photo to offset the glare of the sun.
OK this is plainly ridiculous, the “truth” of the story was restored by this superficial change, who cares what colour the sky was though really? So either way, an over reaction right? How about this one …
The Miami Herald’s Spanish-language sister paper acknowledged Friday that it manipulated two photos to make it appear that two Cuban police officers were ignoring prostitutes gesturing to a tourist.
In this one the image was intentionally created to show a false impression of Police neglect of the prostitute problem. As far as I can tell this photographer was not sacked.
Technorati Tags: photography, news, law, ethics, media
Tourist Remover Online Photo Editing Service
This is pretty cool for your holiday pics. You know how annoying it is when you go somewhere full of tourists and every picture has people in the way of the view? With this online photo editing service you can remove those annoying blobs right out of the picture
Remove moving objects such as tourists or passing cars from your photos. Take multiple photos from the same scene and the «Tourist Remover» blends them into a composite photo without any interfering elements.
I wonder if this can remove noise too? That’s how they clean up movies by differencing two frames right? I am going to have to give this a go when I finally manage to get out of the house to a populated area …
Adobe Lightroom for Windows Beta released
So have any of you tried out the Windows beta of Adobe Lightroom? I plan to try it out this weekend when I may or may not be informal-shooting another wedding. As it is beta software I will not be using it as my primary tool of course, it will be though a good test I think.
I would love to know your opinions too, Windows or Mac. Is this the workflow solution to beat all others or a bag of pants best ignored? Go download it from Adobe Labs – Project: Lightroom and let us know!
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Future DSLR Camera Feature? – Digital Face Beautification
This new software from Tel Aviv University in Israel aims to “beautify” photographs by subtly tweaking the subjects features to appear more pleasing. From the examples it seems to work too!
Digital Face Beautification
Can you imagine this built into photoshop, or even your camera? Of course this could be taken to extremes – point it at an old street hag and the result looks like a supermodel, heh.
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