Digital Photography
Photography?s Digital Possibilities – Retouching
May 19, 2011
Tutorial on GIMP Cloning Part One. See WWW.FOTOLINQ.COM for more FREE GIMP and other photography and videography videos!
Video Rating: 5 / 5
Retouching or touching up a photo can easily be done in modern image editing software. One of the popular programs is Adobe’s Photoshop, which this tutorial is based on. Other programs have similar tools and can be used in the same way. In fields such as photojournalism and documentary photography, retouching and image alterations should be used very moderately.
Why retouching?
Retouching is typically used to remove spots and blemishes in a photo, resulting from dust and dirt on the lens and sensor. It can also be used to remove unwanted details in your photo such as for instance those small pieces of litter that you didn’t notice when you took that nice landscape picture or the skin imperfections on the cute photo model you’ve just made a stunning portrait of.
Using the ‘clone stamp’ and ‘healing brush’ tools is straight forward. With the ‘clone stamp’ tool you first select a reference point from where you want the image pixels copied. You then proceed to ‘paint’ over your unwanted spots like you were using the ‘paintbrush’. It is best used on large, uniform areas of your image where there’s no significant difference in colour or texture. If that’s not the case, the ‘healing brush’ usually provides a better option. It’s used in the same way, but takes into account the colour and texture around the spots you’re trying to remove. Most of the time it will remove the spots with a single ‘stroke of the paintbrush’, leaving no trace of rework.
Before submitting my photos to my stock agency, I always check the photos for unwanted spots. No agency or photo buyer likes to receive a ‘dirty’ submission so it’s important to be 100% sure that you get all of them before handing over your photo to a client. I have developed a little method that makes it easier for me to spot the spots and remove them. It’s simple, just create an adjustment layer (press F1 for help if you’re not sure how to do it), select ‘curves’ and make the contrast very high, especially in the most spot-prone areas such as the sky and blank surface. This will make every spot stand out clearly, easy to spot. Now click on the original background layer to make sure that’s where you are working and proceed with the ‘clone stamp’ and ‘healing brush’ tools to remove them one by one. When you’re finished, delete the adjustment layer again. Now you’re sure you got’em all!
Another couple of great tools for retouching is the ‘burn tool’ and the ‘dodge tool’. The ‘burn tool’ is used to make bright areas darker and the ‘dodge tool’ for making dark areas brighter. Set the % ratio to something like 20% and the brush size to whatever is appropriate for your specific purpose. The neat thing is you can select between working on shadows, midtones or highlights only. It’s a common problem that the sky is overexposed, but quickly swiping the ‘burn tool’ over the white sky (having selected to work on highlights) makes it light grey, as if it was overcast. For portraits, the ‘dodge tool’ is excellent for making teethes in the smiling mouth more white. Since the tools preserves any texture, it looks more natural than actually starting to paint things grey or white.
The
Posted in Digital Photography | 
Tags: Digital, Photographys, Possibilities, Retouching | 
Comments Closed
Photography accessories helps to catch images in finest ways
May 19, 2011
Photography can be a habit of any of the guy or the gal but for many others it could be a passion ad those who believe in their skills of clicking should go fr purchasing photographic equipments which are manufactured highly in the amazing quality by camera makers such as Sony, Fujifilm, Canon, Philips, Olympus, Kodak and so on.
A camera is important to have images and so are photography accessories such as pan tilt,camera lens, indoor scanner, outdoor housing, tripods, lens hood, wireless cables for connecting the device with laptops or the TV screens, digital camera adopters, chargeable batteries, water proof cases, remote switch, USB card reader and so on. After watching this much bigger list of camera accessories you must have known that how important are these materials for getting good picture quality. With a good camera lens we get clear image and without ant chicles and if you love to give your room a sophisticated look then take out good images into developed form and paste them in various types. Stick some of it in Horizontal shape and few of it in the vertical shapes or in whatever ways you want to locate them and give your room and house a familiar touch so that if any of the outsider enters in your room get to know that this house for sure, belongs to the person who is really believes in live living. Get free canon digital camera accessories with the purchase of the Canon camera itself. All the free gifts will be of good usage and you can use them as per your need. So, feel near to your habit and passion of snapping and buy any kind of digital photographic device. With a good camera lens we get clear image and without ant chicles and if you love to give your room a sophisticated look then take out good images into developed form and paste them in various types. Stick some of it in Horizontal shape and few of it in the vertical shapes or in whatever ways you want to locate them and give your room and house a familiar touch so that if any of the outsider enters in your room get to know that this house for sure, belongs to the person who is really believes in live living.
Alfiedaniel is one of the famous expert who has been providing information regarding Cheap digital cameras, cheap Electronic and also on different type business risks. He has been working for comparison portals along time and thus has given countless quality articles on television, cameras and photography, etc. This article is about LCD TVs deals
Article from articlesbase.com
Top 10 Sales Ranking Digital Cameras May 15 2011 – #1 Canon Powershot A3000 IS http://bit.ly/mjWuSY Photography.alltop – by Alltop_Photo (Alltop Photography)
Cell Phone Recycling Profits
High-Profit Recycling Opportunities. Insiders secrets to recycling cell phones – based on 30 years experience!
Cell Phone Recycling Profits
Connecting You with Everything Bass Fishing!
Boatlanes Downloadable Gps Way Points Marking Actual Boat-Running Lanes on Texas’ Premier Bass Fishing Lakes: Lake Fork, Sam Rayburn, T-Bend. Selling Like Crazy! 50% to Affiliates Great Conversion Rate Exceptional Customer Service/Product Support!
Connecting You with Everything Bass Fishing!
Posted in Digital Photography | Tags: Accessories, Catch, finest, Helps, Images, Photography, Ways | Comments Closed
Photography?s Digital Possibilities – Retouching
May 18, 2011
Unboxing the DSC-TX10 Cybershot from Sony. This video takes you through all the material and components included in the box.
Video Rating: 4 / 5
Retouching or touching up a photo can easily be done in modern image editing software. One of the popular programs is Adobe’s Photoshop, which this tutorial is based on. Other programs have similar tools and can be used in the same way. In fields such as photojournalism and documentary photography, retouching and image alterations should be used very moderately.
Why retouching?
Retouching is typically used to remove spots and blemishes in a photo, resulting from dust and dirt on the lens and sensor. It can also be used to remove unwanted details in your photo such as for instance those small pieces of litter that you didn’t notice when you took that nice landscape picture or the skin imperfections on the cute photo model you’ve just made a stunning portrait of.
Using the ‘clone stamp’ and ‘healing brush’ tools is straight forward. With the ‘clone stamp’ tool you first select a reference point from where you want the image pixels copied. You then proceed to ‘paint’ over your unwanted spots like you were using the ‘paintbrush’. It is best used on large, uniform areas of your image where there’s no significant difference in colour or texture. If that’s not the case, the ‘healing brush’ usually provides a better option. It’s used in the same way, but takes into account the colour and texture around the spots you’re trying to remove. Most of the time it will remove the spots with a single ‘stroke of the paintbrush’, leaving no trace of rework.
Before submitting my photos to my stock agency, I always check the photos for unwanted spots. No agency or photo buyer likes to receive a ‘dirty’ submission so it’s important to be 100% sure that you get all of them before handing over your photo to a client. I have developed a little method that makes it easier for me to spot the spots and remove them. It’s simple, just create an adjustment layer (press F1 for help if you’re not sure how to do it), select ‘curves’ and make the contrast very high, especially in the most spot-prone areas such as the sky and blank surface. This will make every spot stand out clearly, easy to spot. Now click on the original background layer to make sure that’s where you are working and proceed with the ‘clone stamp’ and ‘healing brush’ tools to remove them one by one. When you’re finished, delete the adjustment layer again. Now you’re sure you got’em all!
Another couple of great tools for retouching is the ‘burn tool’ and the ‘dodge tool’. The ‘burn tool’ is used to make bright areas darker and the ‘dodge tool’ for making dark areas brighter. Set the % ratio to something like 20% and the brush size to whatever is appropriate for your specific purpose. The neat thing is you can select between working on shadows, midtones or highlights only. It’s a common problem that the sky is overexposed, but quickly swiping the ‘burn tool’ over the white sky (having selected to work on highlights) makes it light grey, as if it was overcast. For portraits, the ‘dodge tool’ is excellent for making teethes in the smiling mouth more white. Since the tools preserves any texture, it looks more natural than actually starting to paint things grey or white.
The
Posted in Digital Photography | Tags: Digital, Photographys, Possibilities, Retouching | Comments Closed
Enhance Your Purchase By Computer Buying Guide
May 18, 2011
There is lots of Computer Buying Guide secrets that let you know while buying a new computer. At the time you decide to get a new computer there are some questions arise in your mind for instance from where do you start? What is the best in value which you can meet the expense of? What type of computer is your requirement? Also this situation disturbed you in final decision.
In Computer Buying Guide, it is useful to do research before you get a computer or any other computer instrument. You have two selections regarding make inquiries that are offline and online. In offline make inquiries the dealer help you in the stores but often their knowledge is imperfect in their experience. When Internet has a complete material of available info and thus you can research deeply before gaining of computer.
Computer Buying Guide make easy you to make a list of all those stuff that you will be using for your new computer. There are various models with different capabilities accessible in the market that you can without difficulty buy according to your necessitate. If it is your first experience to acquire a new computer then it is hard to know exactly what you want until or unless you may use it. Computer Buying Guide helps you to prefer the list of some possibilities include for instance connect to the internet, play games, digital photography, digital video, type documents, accounting, design websites and programming etc.
Some of these are necessitate more power than others just like connecting internet, digital video and many games need lots of power. That is why you need extra fast computer to run these programs. The raw list of these mechanisms will help the trader to provide you the exact relevant information via phone, internet or face to face meeting and thus you can effortlessly decide that which will be the best system for your needs and necessities. This will also save countless your time and money.
Computer Buying Guide also recommends you to decide the warranty of computer. Computer warranties are one of the most incomprehensible and confusing parts of your computer buying process. Computer warranty is also helping you in your computer service and for this you can do some investigate on the internet or most of the computer magazines which have annual customer service comparisons that rate the larger computer institutes. So always note how the warranty is handled before making your final conclusion.
Software is one of the last surreptitious of Computer Buying Guide and In fact new computer systems include quite a few programs and value of the software is quite the best. It also happen in some cases that the software included in your computer is a trial version or limited edition and this kind of programs do not have all the procedures of the full program or it may be run for certain time period till their end.
Actually buyer does not tell their consumers about trial or limited version of the software. You have to ask them if you can not find the answer in their promotional commands. In other case if you are finding new computers with trial versions of the software then you have to pay for continue using after this trial period finishing. It is also another cost that you should decide regarding
Nature Photography: Art or Technology?
May 18, 2011
This is a quick video to show you how I organize and rename my personal Digital photos. I have a different system for scanned in photos and for photo shoots so I’ll post up videos on that later on. Copyright © 2010 Digital Minds — All rights reserved Website: www.JeremyMartel.com http DeviantArt: digitalmindsmedia.deviantart.com LinkedIn ca.linkedin.com WeddingWire: www.weddingwire.com
Nature photography as an art form has been around for a long time, but recently it has found respect on the walls of up-market galleries. This is a big change from 20 years ago, when nature photography was only considered worthy of second-rate postcards and calendars.
Over the years, postcards and calendars began to improve in quality as nature photographers with real talent entered the industry. High quality posters of whales, wolves, elephants and spectacular landscapes from around the world were suddenly worthy of framing. Finally nature photography galleries began to appear and, more importantly, turn a profit.
When I opened my gallery in 1993, many people still felt that you could not make a living selling photography; that people would only buy paintings to hang on their walls. These days, new galleries are opening everywhere; some good, some not so good, and a few that have really hit the big time.
All this activity in the world of nature photography has inspired new generations of photographers to look at nature photography as a hobby or possible profession. These new nature photographers grew up in a very different world than the one I come from. Technology that was unimagined back then is now commonplace, and new photographers have more power in their hands than ever before. But what implications does all this technology have for nature photography?
Nature photographers must now decide how much they will allow their photography to be influenced by technology. In earlier days, good nature photography required a very simple approach; find a great subject, in the best possible light, and use your skill with a camera to capture what you saw. Today it is quite a different story. A nature photographer can (if they choose) find a decent subject, photograph it in whatever lighting conditions they happen to find, then go home and completely alter the colours, the contrast, and even the detail of the picture. The result can be an image that owes more to the marvels of technology than to the wonders of nature.
Each to his own. It is not for me to judge the creative decisions of another photographer. But the question that is in the back of your mind right now deserves to be asked; is this nature photography?
Every photographer is entitled to pursue their craft any way they choose. Of course skills with computer software are just as creative as traditional nature photography skills. However, the person who views a photograph deserves to know what they are looking at, especially if that person is a customer prepared to part with their hard-earned money.
I know many photographers get quite defensive on this subject. Camera clubs around the world continue to wrestle with the issue of judging natural photos alongside manipulated photos. Some clubs have tried to divide competition into separate categories, only to find people sneaking their digitally altered photos into the unaltered category for equal recognition. Understandably, ‘software photographers’ want their talents to be recognised on the same level as the ‘in-camera photographers’. And so they should, but not in a way that ignores the difference between the two disciplines.
