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Easy presentation with LucisArt and GraphicAuthority

  Here is the video of the construction of the image: Get LucisArt with a discount: use the coupon # BAW1234 at checkout Jean-Francois

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Free Online Software Brings Photoshop Technology to Anyone Taking Digital Photos

Adobe announced Adobe® Photoshop® Express public beta, a free Rich Internet Application (RIA) available to anyone who wants to store, sort and show off digital photos with eye-catching effects. As the newest addition to the Photoshop family line, Photoshop Express has taken much of Adobe’s best image editing technology and made it simple and accessible [...]

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Feeling small again

Last week I did a shoot in a tire distribution centre. They have tires up to 7” high and as small as 12” high… I felt like a kid in a toy store… The job of lighting the tires was another ballgame 5 lamps were needed to bring out the luster and pattern of the [...]

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I've discovered LucisArt Photoshop Plug-in

At first when I tried this plug-in I did not try it on proper image: portraits of glamour models. I then realised that I  may not have been working with the right subject. I grabbed an image of Vancouver Airport that I had shot a couple of days before on my Olympus point and shoot [...]

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The Color Balance

THE COLOR BALANCE ALSO CALLED THE WHITE BALANCE IS A TECHNIQUE THAT WILL ENSURE A PHOTOGRAPHED OBJECT TO BE CAPTURED WITH HIS REAL COLORS, ENSURING AN OPTIMAL RENDERING AT THE MOMENT OF DISPLAY ON THE COMPUTER MONITOR OR ON THE FINAL PRINT. YOUR CAMERA HAS SETTING OF EXPOSURE AND COLOR BALANCE THAT CAN BE SET [...]

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What you recommend for desktop use….the 6×8 Wacom or smaller/larger?

The larger will be the tablet the more precise it tend to be, but one thing to consider is the total movement of the hand, I have on my desk a 6×8 and I like it very much, when I get on the 4×6… I feel a rest of not making such large movements with [...]

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FAQ PhotoMasterTarget/ColorBalanceCoach: When I take the picture of the grey surface, should I leave my WB settings to AWB to take the picture for use in setting custom WB ?

For Canon, Nikon and other brands, it does not make any difference the mode that you are in when you take the image you will use for setting the white balance. As a second step the camera will white balance the surface or the image that you have chosen to perform the custon WB. The [...]

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The painting effect without the brushes in your hands

WOW , I just got the AlienSkin Snap Art 1.0. It gives you full control over the painterly look. Pastel, oil, pencil and all the effect you may wish I will have a tutorial up within a couple of days telling you how I got around what I tought was a limitation. I was trying [...]

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PhotoshopUser magazine

Learning new tricks is not an easy job for an old dogs, but even with many years of experience in Photoshop (I started with version 2.5) I still devore end read cover to cover each edition of PhotoshopUser. Tips and even stuff that you do know but have forgotten. Watch shortly for a review of [...]

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Lensbabies

The Lensbabies kit is for me the ULTIMATE fun. In my commercial life, the LensBabies is the tool in the bottom of my bag and when inspiration fails, I put the Lensbabies on and through my camera I see a whole new world…

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