Understanding Curve Adjustments in Photoshop
Most digital photographers are using level adjustments and/or curve adjustments to adjust and improve their images, but how are curves different from levels, and when should you use them ? This tutorial will help you understand a bit more about curve adjustments in photoshop.
If you’re comparing the curve adjustments with level adjustments, level adjustments are more straightforward. You use it to give your images the maximum possible contrast by making sure that the darkest parts correspond to dense black, and the lightest parts correspond to brilliant white.
What about Curve Adjustments?
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Apple Aperture Version 1.0.1 Update
Apple has just updated their imaging software which addresses a number of issues related to reliability and performance. It also delivers improved image export quality and metadata handling. Some improvements are including white balance adjustment accuracy and performance, image export quality, book and print ordering reliability, auto-stacking performance, and custom paper size handling
Download Apple Aperture Version 1.0.1
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ColorWasher for MacOS X
October 25, 2005 – The Plugin Site (www.thepluginsite.com) is pleased to announce Version 2.0c of ColorWasher for MacOS X, a plugin for correcting the colors, contrast, exposure and saturation of 8bit and 16bit photos. It works with various graphics applications, e.g. Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Illustrator, Fireworks, Painter, Canvas, Photoline and GraphicConverter. ColorWasher takes photo correction to a new level of accuracy and speed. With its help even beginners are capable of doing photo corrections within seconds that only experts were able to produce in the past.
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Photoshop Tutorial: Creating Shallow DOF
The tutorial below will show you how to create shallow Depth of Field – DOF, which normally can only be achieved when you shoot with an expensive fast lens, using photoshop.
Step 1: Open your image
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Best Digital Photography Books for Digital Photographers
In 2005 there were more digital imaging books published than ever before and trying to pick some of the best was difficult. So here’s the best books for digital photographers according to shutterbug.com
Creative Photoshop Lighting Techniques; by Barry Huggins; Lark Books; 192 pages.
Shutterbug: “This book has cogent text, beautiful photography and extraordinary production values that combine to create a book where readers will find usefull information on every page. There’s more than weather effects with entire chapters on creating reflections, working with the “Quality of Light,” and creating special lighting effects.”
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Photoshop Tutorial: Extracting (easy)
Lara Jade has written an easy to follow tutorial on how to extract your images for basic photoshop users. This is a must know skill for photo manipulators.
Go to Extracting Tutorial
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IR Photography with Nikon D70
Do you have Nikon D70(s) ?
Do you want to take those surreal photos with your camera and an Infra Red filter just like the image below ?
Then this IR Photography with Nikon D70 tutorial is a must read for you…
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Photoshop Tutorial: Graduated Blur Effect
Good graduated blur effect using 8 simple steps tutorial by Gary Parish at Deviant Art.
Go to Graduated Blur Effect Tutorial.
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Photoshop Tutorial: Replace Eye Color (Easy)
Heathrowe.com has posted 3 easy steps to replace eye color with photoshop CS/CS2:
“Switch back to your original target image. (Duplicate original image layer before proceeding)
A. Activate the ‘Color Replacement Tool (B)’.
B. Then up on the Options Bar, select a brush preset and ensure your ‘mode’ is set to ‘Color’, as captured below.
C. Then brush over the old eye with the new foreground swatch color.”
Here’s the before and after image:
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How to Make Natural Smooth Skin in Photoshop
Lunacore has a neat tutorial on making skin look smooth but still quite natural with your Photoshop.
“In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to make skin look smooth. The technique itself is not complicated, but does require you to be patient and work slow and accurate. If you can meet these requirements, then it’s not going to be very difficult to see good results.”
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