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Add Fantastic Color to 3D
by: Wojciech Pijecki
First of all, to create the 3D text, you need to download the demo version of Xara 3D6. You may use Adobe Illustrator as well, but I strongly recommend you get Xara for this piece. Also download thestained metal texture image we’ll be using from cgtextures.com.
Step 1 – How to Begin?
Let’s start with opening a new document of around 1350 pixels by 1600 pixels [...]
Filed in: Photography Tips
Photography By Alexander Crispin
by: MAD
Alexander Crispin was born in Sweden in 1967 year. In 1994, Alexander opened a commercial photography studio in Stockholm. Around the same time (1995 – 98) he was a Swedish artistic group “Sprinkler” ( “spray”) and participated in joint exhibitions in Paris and Stockholm. His work focused on the people and still lifes with a strong visual humorous ideas. Crispin [...]
Filed in: Portrait Photography
Top 12 Image Editing Skills Every Photographer Should know
by: John Huegel
Before you start editing, make sure that you have a good image work flow. This means saving originals in a separate place to prevent you from damaging or destroying the original image. And get familiar with your program’s UNDO capability – usually the Ctrl-Z key is a shortcut to undo the most recent image change. Don’t forget SaveAs, which allows you to save a copy of the [...]
Creative Photography – Rules are made to be Broken
by: Andrew Goodall
Creative photography is a mix of many ingredients; art and technology, skill and patience, cold mechanical know-how and individual flair.
As a beginner, wouldn’t it be nice if the whole thing could be explained with a simple set of rules that were easy to understand. Surely someone could just tell you what aperture to use in a given situation, or how to structure a composition [...]
Beginner Digital Photography: Choosing your equipment
by: Peter Phun
As you are entering the world of digital photography, it is important to pause for a little consideration ahead of time make sure you can accomplish your goals. Start thinking from the point where you go out into the field; all the way to where you start printing or sharing your work.
Ask yourself these questions:
Will your present computer run Adobe’s Photoshop?
I’m going to assume [...]
Create a Powerful Mental Wave Explosion Effect
Apr 15th in Effects by Fabio
Step 1
Open a new document. I used 800x600px. Look for a road photo on the Internet. The one I used can be downloaded here. After downloading, place the photo in your document.
Step 2
Now we need a photo of a person. The one I used can be found here. Once you have your photo, it’s time to extract the guy from the background. Using the Pen Tool(P) create a path like [...]
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Vignittes – Lighten or Darken?
by:Elizabeth Halford
When adding vignettes to your images or correcting accidental ones, you have two options: lighten or darken. Darkening the edges of your photos can add a deep, dark, vintage or even macabre quality and feel to your image and you might not even entertain the option of doing the opposite and lightening the edges.
As with any art, you must let your heart guide you, but I always find [...]
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Review of the Canon EOS 7D
by Guest Contributor
A guest Review of the Canon EOS 7D by Patrick Dean from NeutralDay.com.
The 18 megapixel Canon EOS 7D is a significant leap forward for the prosumer line of EOS DSLR cameras.
It offers increased resolution, high ISO capabilities, a new AF system, improved handling and functionality, and rapid-fire continuous shooting.
Intended for enthusiasts and semi-professional photographers, [...]
Change Hair Color Photoshop Tutotial
by: Jason Cameron
In this tutorial, I’ll teach you how to change hair color using Photoshop CS4. This is an easy and fun tutorial and result should give you something similar to this:
Open the image that you want to use. For best results you should try to get high resolution picture. This tutorial depends greatly on the selection you make, so be careful and accurate.
I opened the image I’m [...]
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Stylish Swirly Effect Photoshop
Design Inspiration: Alberto Sevenso
This tutorial focuses on using a simple photo, but with a little extra effort you can achieve some amazing results using very complex photographs. This tutorial will teach you how to easily create swirly works of art, and give the appearance that it is entirely composed of vector shapes, following an increasingly popular design technique.
This is the image we’ll [...]
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How to Hold a Digital Camera
by:Darren Rowse
One of the common problems that many new digital (and film) photographers have is ‘camera shake’ where images seem blurry – usually because the camera was not held still enough while the shutter was depressed. This is especially common in shots taken in low light situations where the shutter is open for longer periods of time. Even the smallest movement of the camera can cause [...]
15 Digital Photography Tips for Christmas
by: Darren Rowse
It’s just a few days until Christmas so I thought a quick tutorial on the topic of Christmas Photography might be appropriate. Hopefully this will give you some good Christmas photo ideas.
Here are 16 Christmas Photography tips and ideas to try that come to mind for digital camera owners wanting to capture the big day:
1. Prepare – Making a List, checking it twice….
Making sure [...]
Better Sunset Photography
by: Patrick Ryall
Basked in golden light as the sun shimmers over the water; the sunset can truly be a magnificent sight. When you are traveling or even exploring your local area, try to be a little more creative with your sunset photography, too often we see the standard sunset shot with little to remind you of where it was taken.
Although it can be tempting to have a clear sunset shot, you are really [...]
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Ethereal Ghost
Posted by Kirin Knapp in Miscellaneous
We’ll be altering a photo of a beautiful woman walking in a wind, into an ethereal ghost haunting the grounds.
This is a very easy tutorial, that once you learn how to do it, it will only take you a few minutes to make anyone into a ghost.
Starting with our lady:
Desaturate the whole picture CTRL+SHIFT+U.
Duplicate the woman/background image in the layers [...]
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Top 10 Popular DSLRS
by Darren Rowse
What’s Hot in DSLRs?
Note: The following DSLRs are the most popular in terms of purchases over the last month. We’re listing them in the order of popularity in terms of sales and in the configuration (ie with or without lenses bundled) that they’re selling in best.
1. Canon EOS Rebel T1i
This camera has topped our best selling list for the last few months. It’s a 15.1 [...]
25 Spectacular Light Painting Images
Light Painting in its many forms has been a growing trend on Flickr and other photo sharing sites in the last couple of years. These images are attention grabbing and full of amazing color, movement and detail. In this post we share 25 examples to inspire you.
Image by brentbat
These great images come from a variety of talented photographers including Brent Pearson (his image is above) who has written [...]
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