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Nicest Photoshop Photo Effects.
Looking at how powerful Photoshop can be in terms of photo editing,
it’s probably not important if you suck at taking photographs
or being
labeled an amateur.Take a look and see some professional photo editing
skills.
Paint.NET is free
image and photo editing software for
computers that run Windows. ... Impressive." - PC World, #19 on "Top
100 Products of 2007" "It raises the quality bar ...
Technique described in my tutorial is entirely improvised,
but
it works well for me, giving a good amount of control over the process
and results.
Some inspiration was provided by “The Layer Mask”
technique described here. Since
there is no layer mask in PdN yet, we will use two excellent plugins
instead: Curves+ v2.4
(get it here) and Gaussian Blur Channel
(get it here).
Particular
curve shapes and blur amounts were selected to match my sample image.
Take it as a rough guideline only; feel free to propose improvements!
Below sample images are 16% size screenshots, actual processing was
made on fullsize 6MP image.
There has been a lot of buzz recently about HDR
photography,
but many people assume that it's only limited to professional
photographers. The reality is that just about anyone can take and
process an HDR photo with most cameras and proper HDR software.
There are plenty of explanations of what HDR is and how it
works,
so we won't cover that here. If you want more background info, check
out HDR
explained so anyone can understand or
Jon Meyer's popular HDR
primer.
In this tutorial we'll go through the steps necessary to
take your
very own HDR photo and process it like a pro. What you will need:
A camera that allows you to adjust exposure settings.
Tone Mapping Software (In this tutorial we will use
Photomatix, which is the most popular way to create HDR's.)
I'm learning that portrait photography can be tough in more
than one way thanks to my participation in the December Challenge. I'm
already getting bored ...
