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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 [...]
Read moreFAQ PhotoMasterTarget/ColorBalanceCoach: My camera has trouble focusing on the grey surface to get a picture for setting the WB. Would an out-of-focus picture acceptable ?
Many cameras have that limitation of focussing before exposure. When you walk in to fill the screen with the target, it may be impossible to focus. There is no problem as long as you are not casting a shadow on the target. So sharp or out of focus target will be as usefull to set [...]
Read more20 Questions to TheStudioCoach
20 Questions to TheStudioCoach Asked by James Cowie, Stan C. Reade photo store. London, Ontario. 1. What inspired you to make photography your career? At the age of 13 I borrowed my Grandmother’s camera on a vacation and started shooting. I still remember the sense of storytelling that I felt, I would be able to [...]
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 moreHow the ColorBalanceCoach target deals with the back light
This fashion image shot in Paris at The “Astre studio” (map) represented a challenge in the calculation of the light. I wanted the light hitting the front of the model only, using as background the graphical shapes of the architecture. The Camera was set on manual exposure and white balance. The disc was placed so [...]
Read moreCreate art in minutes
Graphic Authority provides you the tools to make art in minutes. Grab a file, open it in photoshop, open a GraphicAuthority merge, tweek and save. the above image was modified in 5 minutes flat, and I’m still at the bottom of the learning curve.
Read moreGraphic Authority image enhancing tools
Wow! affordability, ease and affordability. They have experience and it shows. Established in 1994 Graphic Authority has provided the graphics community with products of outstanding quality and price. Today you can find Graphic Authority in Layers Magazine and Photoshop User. I met them at PPA convention in SanAntonio, Texas and I am preparing samples and [...]
Read moreSand and snow, same exposure problem
In a backlit beach image like the one beside the camera sees all the light tones of the sky and the sand and underexposes the whole image. By reading from a grey card like the reference8, you can always be sure of the exposure and bring back great souvenir images, without spending too much time [...]
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