Archive for Product Testing
Mystuff: My Hoodman stuff
I’ve found the accessories I was looking for after many years, in a tradeshow under a strange booth, you’ve guesses it: made like a hood. It’s the helmet of 3 wise brothers who decided to supply only the best accessories for digital photographer and videographer. Of course they remembered me I had hovered around the [...]
Read moreMy Stuff: The lens baby
OK that is a cool toy for your brain and eye. This toy a a kind of no nonsense in the digital era, It is a lens contraption that fit your modern, automatic, super sharp and fast autofocus, that will allow you to do selective focus, pat tist and blurred images by pushing and pulling [...]
Read moreMy stuff: My softwares: Nik Color Efex Pro 3
Nik Color Efex 3 screen The Nik well known suite of effects has gotten better by the in version 3 by the advanced user interface that gives you the full control and best of all the full preview of the effect that you are to apply. The Nik palette gives acces to all Nik effects [...]
Read moreMy Stuff: My softwares: Nik SIlver efex
Nik silver Efex Plug-in is so like the real thing that when I showed my family on the night I received it the great job it does at interpreting real film features, that my daughter, asked me “Dad, in your time cameras reacted differently according of the film you used!!!” Then used the Silver effet [...]
Read moreFree 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 [...]
Read moreI'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 [...]
Read moreThe 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 [...]
Read morePhotoshopUser 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 [...]
Read moreAdobe Lightroom
Lightroom, is now the perfect asset to actualy manage the aquirering and preparation and presentation of images for client or for my own reference. Lightroom is a complex software, very intuitive and so obvious that many of it’s feature would go unseen if it would not have been of a good training book. I used [...]
Read moreLensbabies
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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