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Color Correction for Dummies. (And everyone else.)
3Getting good color can sometimes be a difficult task, but if you follow some of these steps and use the tricks I explain in this post you can make color correction a much easier task. Everyone has their own personal preference on what is “good …
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Using Curves to Dodge & Burn
Although the Curves Adjustment Layer is a good way to make an overall tweak to the look of an image, I bet you never thought of using it for easy Dodge & Burn without shifting or dulling the color like the Dodge/Burn tools in CS3 …
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Nikon D300S?
Looks like it could be so, sooner than we might know. Either that or someone over at Nikon USA slipped up and put screen shots up of something they shouldn’t have. Edit: The link has already been removed on the Nikon site. Seems fishy. (The …
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Get better backgrounds.
You know you are guilty of it. Trying to retouch the background flat white (or black) and you missed a spot. Now your prints are back from the lab and you have an ugly dark spot that didn’t show up on the screen but there …
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Histograms lie, unless…
When working with portraits and just photos with people in general, how can we tell if the image is exposed properly? More importantly, how can we tell if the FACES are exposed properly? Of course we could look at the handy dandy histogram on the …
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