Holiday Lights Bokeh. I am a huge fan of bokeh (the blurring of background objects of lights in photos) and with an abundance of holiday lights at this time of year, bokeh light sources are readily available.
Here are some examples with the boys, taken in front of our Christmas tree and at an outdoor light display. (Looks like Camo does the same pose everywhere, huh?) Regular old round bokeh is great, but have you seen pictures with shaped bokeh? So cool. I Heart Faces has some great tutorials on taking bokeh photos, but also on how to make your own shaped bokeh filter. I went about it a little differently because my paper punch didn't go far enough across the page to put the hole in the center of the circle I cut out. Photo Tips and Techniques for Beginners DIY Fashion and Craft Tutorials. I remember the day I got my DSLR camera in the mail-- I had saved up for months to buy my little Nikon D40 and I watched the postal tracking code like my dog waits for her food in the mornings.
(So. Excited.) :) When my brown Amazon box finally came, my heart was beating so fast that I could barely cut open the tape. I took out the Nikon and held it in my hands-- that weight and feel is so familiar to me today. I started taking pictures right away, the same photos that everyone takes with a new camera: everything that is in direct sight. My hands, the countertop, the microwave, my feet, the cat, a pile of newspapers. Back then, I didn't have a clue as to what in the heck I was doing. This photo: ISO: 400, f/2.8, Shutter: 1/30, taken in Wyoming at the Grand Tetons National Park, summer 2011. I think that composition is the first, easiest, most fun, and most important lesson to learn in photography. Square Composition: I am also a huge fan of the square photograph. 100 free textures for photo editing in Photoshop.
How to use Lightroom: 8 mistakes every photographer makes (and how to fix them) Adobe Lightroom is an incredibly powerful image organisation and editing software package.
Of course the downside to having such a powerful tool at your disposal is that it’s possible to make some pretty significant mistakes, especially when you’re first learning how to use it. To help out we’ve drawn up a list of the most common mistakes that photographers make when using Lightroom and have some advice about how to get things right from the outset. 8 reasons why cheap kit lenses are the perfect lens The low-cost kit lenses you get with digital SLRs or compact system cameras don’t have much of a reputation, but is that fair?
Full-frame lenses: 4 quick tips for the first-timer All lenses create a circular image, and your camera’s sensor simply records a rectangular portion of this. Lightroom Lens Correction: how to fix common lens and perspective problems. Achieving a Vintage Look Through Color Tones in Photoshop CS - StumbleUpon. By Guest Contributor Anna Gay Photographers are often striving for a “vintage” look in their photos, and even though there are endless ways of achieving a vintage look, there are a couple of characteristics to keep in mind.
First of all, the color tones in a vintage photo often lean towards either a blue or a red hue, or a cross-processed look. Vintage photos also have an element of noise or grain that can be achieved through textures, and also a certain amount of vignetting around the edges of the photo. In this tutorial, we will look at adjusting color tones and adding vignettes. This photo is the result of adjusting the color curves, adding two vignettes, and a color fill, which we will walk through step-by-step.
First, open your photo in Photoshop and make sure your foreground color is set to white in your side tool bar. You will see the above dialogue box. As you can see here, there should be three layers – your Background image, then your two gradient layers. 8500+ Free Photoshop Brushes. Weekly Roundup from DesignFloat. Hey guys, the time for Friday roundup has come and we want to share some useful resources featuring free Photoshop brushes with you.
We all know that brushes turn out to be the essential tools for web designers and help to add the desired atmosphere and create stunning websites. Using this Photoshop tool, it is possible to give the design the impressive touch and make it catchy. CoffeeShop Vanilla Latte B&W Action UnWrapped! CoffeeShop Vanilla Latte Action! I am excited to release my newest action, CoffeeShop Vanilla Latte!
This is a fun little action that gives you a nice smooth, bright, vanilla-tinted B&W. Chasing Dreams Texture Tutorial! Colleen of Chasing Dreams is a dear blogging friend of mine and I can't tell you how thrilled I was when she sent this amazing texture tutorial my way to share with you.
She also sent a special coupon code for my readers. Just pick your texture set(s) of choice from her blog and enter the coupon code COFFEE25 at checkout for 25% of your entire order!!! I really love the new Mishmosh set. Colleen's textures are really beautiful, so please go check them out. This special offer expires on 10/22/2011.