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Web 2.0, meet Photoshop

January 31st, 2007

Ever find yourself on a computer without any editing software? All you want to do is to crop an image, fix the contrast, and resize it?
Well, if you’ve got a reasonably new browser, you’re saved: Enter Picnik, a brand new type of image editing software, bringing the genre well into line with all the […]

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Original post by Haje Jan Kamps and powered by Img Fly

Using adjustment layers

January 28th, 2007

Photo editing falls into two categories: Adjustments, which affect the whole photograph (much like our introduction to contrast, using the levels tool, from yesterday), and spot editing, which affects a smaller part of an image. Any photo editing you do with brushes, selection tools etc would be a spot edit.
While spot editing can be […]

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Contrast in photos

January 27th, 2007

If you are reading this, you have probably heard people moaning about lack of contrast in one of your pictures. I am sorry about that, but — really — it is one of the most annoying things in the world. The medium of photography allows you to enhance the way you see the world, so […]

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Original post by Haje Jan Kamps and software by Elliott

Time lapse photography

January 9th, 2007

There’s a lot to be said for the persistency of time lapse photography - it makes life rather interesting. Reducing a period of a few hours (like a flower opening to the sun), a few months (like a flower growing or a baby growing inside a mother’s belly) or a year (seasonal timelapses, construction work) […]

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Original post by Haje Jan Kamps and plugin by Elliott Back