External Monitor for photo editing with Macbook pro: Mac Talk Forum: Digital Photography Review. Re: External Monitor for photo editing with Macbook pro Padsterman wrote:From what I have read quality control is an issue with BenQ monitors. It seems that if you get a good one they are fantastic especially for the cost and a 5 star review but if you get a duff one with the odd dead pixel or inconsistent color across the screen then it's a one star review. I would love to be lucky & get a good sample on first go but not sure if I have the time or energy to go through a sampling proccces to get a good one! So, I may just go for NEC. TFT Central has a review of Palette Master . Regarding BenQ quality control problems and The Luck of the Draw. . . The reported problems with BenQ displays center on the backlighting. Since the display is arguably the most critical component in a photographer's digital workflow, I think that it is worth spending more up front because the potentail return on your dollar is higher than with other hardware.
The best monitors for photo editing and photographers for size, resolution, color. Choosing a monitor for image editing can be a daunting task, as you need a quality screen to ensure an accurate image preview. In this guide we've picked some of the best monitors on the market that prioritize colour accuracy, brightness consistency and contrast to do justice to your photos. The biggest factor in choosing a monitor for photo editing is the type of LCD panel it uses. IPS screens have much better colour and contrast consistency than older, cheaper TN panels, so all the monitors on this list use IPS technology. Resolution is the next concern, with 4K being a must if you're accustomed to the high pixel densities of modern smartphones and Apple's Retina displays.
Screen size is important, too. Generally it's a case of the bigger, the better! If you've got the desk space to accommodate a large screen, the extra display area will be invaluable for displaying extra Photoshop pallets and a bigger image preview. 1. Rigid stand Shading hood included Excellent performance 2. 4. 5. 6. The best monitors for photo editing and photographers for size, resolution, color. How to - Blend a picture with video in iMovie. A Beginner's Guide to Photoshop Elements - Part 3 - Touring the Quick Fix & Guided Modes. How To Use Layers In Photoshop Elements. Tutorials. Most Popular Photo Effect Tutorials.
Video Tutorials. Eyes on Design - Photoshop tutorial. Your Adobe Photoshop Elements 11 Starter Kit. Thanks for your interest in Photoshop Elements Techniques. Below you will find download links for your free issues and below that a selection of our favorite videos and tutorials for you to view as often as you like! Looking for the Photoshop Elements 10 Starter Kit?
Click here to find it! (It might take a minute for the issues to open the first time…) In this set of videos, we’ve selected a variety of reader-favorite videos produced by our veteran photographers, writers, and Elements experts. Please bookmark this page and try out the techniques at your own pace. The Multiply Blend Mode Matt distills the loads of blend modes down to the single tool that will provide the biggest bang for the buck. Customize Your Brushes Learn how to customize your Brush tool options and create straight and dotted lines, along with a nice scalloped edge that can be used as a unique photo frame. Color Toning with Gradient Maps Crop Overlay Guide Text on a Path Elements Survival Guide Portrait Finishing Touches. Photoshop Elements Tutorial: Convert to Black and White with Selected Color. Adobe® Photoshop® Elements 6 June 16, 2008 For a trendy look, you can convert a color photo to black and white, then add back color to selected areas of the photo.
To convert to black and white: Open the photo you want to convert. Press Ctrl+J to duplicate the photo on a new layer. Apply the conversion to the duplicate layer. To add back color, create a layer mask for the black and white image and paint with black to reveal the color below: Select the background layer (with the color in it). Paint the mask on the Levels adjustment layer to reveal the color below: Click the layer mask on the Levels adjustment layer. Teaching a class? Reducing Noise With Photoshop Elements. No matter what we do to stop it from happening, digital images have a way of becoming noisy or losing quality. It happens whenever you shoot at a high ISO speed. It happens when you sharpen too much. It even happens every time you save an image as a JPEG. With so much noise, what is a photographer to do?
Thankfully, you can use Photoshop Elements to remove some of it. Here’s the starter image I picked: A beautiful image taken at ISO 3200. This is a good image to start with because it doesn’t have any of the compression noise from saving a JPEG over and over again at lower quality. Here’s a section of the image blown up.
Can you see how rough the image is? Using the reduce noise filter With your image already opened in Photoshop, you can start using the reduce noise filter. Now this window will pop up: This is where you can take control of the effect. The big tradeoff You can never get something for free. Not bad at all from an art perspective, but it isn’t really a photo anymore.
Remove Wrinkles With Photoshop Elements And Take 10 Years Off A Person’s Age. In this Photoshop Elements tutorial we'll see not so much how to remove wrinkles but reduce them. You can take years off of a person's age by removing wrinkles. But like bad plastic surgery you might end up with a picture that barely resembles the person. We will add an extra step at the end that will help make it look more natural. STEP 1Open an image you want to minimize the wrinkles on. STEP 2Duplicate the Background layer and zoom in.Duplicate the Background layer by pressing Control (Mac:Command) J.
Zoom in on the wrinkles you want to remove by using the Zoom tool from the toolbox (it looks like a magnifying glass). STEP 3Choose the Healing Brush tool from the Toolbox.It might be nested under the Spot Healing Brush. Go up to the Options bar and click on the tiny triangle next to the Brush field. Make sure the Hardness slider is all the way over to the left side so that the Hardness amount is set at 0%. Here's a look at the before and after: Until next time,Rick. An Adjustable Black and White Conversion in Photoshop Elements. PET-noise-reduction-techniques-cheat-sheet - PET-noise-reduction-techniques-cheat-sheet.pdf.
Add a Text Watermark to a Photo in Photoshop Elements. Placing a watermark on images that you plan to post on the Web will identify them as your own work and discourage people from copying them or claiming them as their own. Here's a simple way to add a copyright watermark in Photoshop Elements where the text remains editable. Difficulty: Easy Time Required: 2 minutes Here's How: Open an image. Tips: If you'd like the watermark a little more visible, try a color value of 60% gray for the type (HSB value 0-0-60). The Help Forum: Photostream and sets. ColleenM says: suzydoo_98: is there a way to have pictures in a SET/Category/Group then delete it from the photostream?.. No, because the only copy of your photo is in the photostream. If you delete it from there, it' gets deleted everywhere. Flickr has two privacy levels, plus a "me only" setting.
If you make all your photos private, you then have total control over who can see them. So, you might send a Guest Pass to one person and allow them to see all your "family" photos in your photostream. Another person might get a Guest Pass to see all the "friends" photos in your photostream. You can also put a photo in multiple sets and send a Guest Pass for each set. One set might be Baby A plus any pictures of mom's side of the family. Each of those sets could contain the same pictures of Baby A, but different pictures of who is holding him. You might want to make pictures of the inside of your home into a different set, and send a Guest Pass to that set to the previous owners, or whomever. New Blur effects in Photoshop Elements 11 | Learn Photoshop Elements 11. Share this Episode Autoplay End of Video Show End Screen Default Quality Adjust your embed size below, then copy and paste the embed code above.
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About This Episode Create sophisticated photographic blur effects in Photoshop Elements 11. By Runtime : 00:05:49 Added : 09/24/2012 About this show Learn Photoshop Elements 11 Learn to use Photoshop Elements with tutorials selected by experts at Adobe. Photo Cascadia Blog. Dodging and burning to creatively lighten and darken areas within a photo is a technique essentially as old as photography itself. In the digital darkroom we now have many ways in which we can make dodging and burning types of adjustments.
Before making creative adjustments. After creative adjustments including dodging and burning to creatively darken and lighten specific areas within the image. Many years ago I learned the Photoshop technique of dodging and burning areas of an image by painting with white (to lighten) and black (to darken) using a blended 50% gray layer. For some time I have known that dodging and burning on a 50% gray layer set to the Overlay blending mode would give results that differ from dodging and burning on a 50% gray layer set to the Soft Light blending mode. Both the Soft Light and Overlay blending modes lighten light tones and darken dark tones while blending the 50% mid-tone transparently.
Normal Mode. Learn photography for FREE. Dodging and Burning | Image Editing Tutorials. Learn the Basics of Photoshop: The Complete Guide. Image Editing Techniques | Photoshop Tutorials. Understanding Histograms. Possibly the most useful tool available in digital photography is the histogram. It could also well be the least understood. In this article we will look at what a camera histogram tells the photographer and how best to utilize that information. Virtually every digital camera, from the simplest point-and-shoot to the most sophisticated digital SLR has the ability to display a histogram directly, or more usually superimposed upon the image just taken.
(The Hasselblad H1, the latest generation of film & digital capable cameras, can display a histogram on the camera grip’s LCD while the image is separately displayed on the digital back’s LCD.) On most cameras though the histogram display takes place on the rear LCD screen, and most cameras can be programmed to do this both on the image that is displayed immediately after a shot is taken, or later when frames are being reviewed. The 21st Century Light Meter In Bloom. Canon EOS 1Ds with 16-35mm f/2.8L lens @ 24mm.
Dynamic Range Surf & Turf. HDR Conversion | Image Editing Tutorials. Image Editing Tutorial HDR or High Dynamic Range is the ability to capture the full luminance spectrum of the real-world. This is extremely difficult to achieve and is usually reserved for movies, special effects and some other specialty photography. What’s marvelous about Photoshop, is that you can photograph a subject (multiple times at varying exposures) and then merge the images to create a single HDR image. Here’s how you execute the process… How to Convert Color Digital Images into Black and White Ones. Make the Photo - How to create black and white photos with a DSLR camera. A photo... without color! Photo copyright Adam Geitgey What is a black and white photo anyway?
This might seem like a dumb question, right? Obviously a black and white picture is a color picture... just without the color. But it's not that simple! Look at this photo of a yellow butterfly in front of a red background ground: In color, the natural contrast between red and yellow makes the butterfly stand out clearly from the background. If you convert red and yellow into very similar shades of gray, you will get a muddled mess: In this image, there is no separation between the butterfly and the background.
By simply choosing different shades of gray to represent the original colors, we can get a very different result: In this photo, the butterfly stands out from the background and is clearly the subject of the shot. The point is that turning a color photograph into black and white is an art that takes practice. Not every color image is going to be interesting in black and white. Extra Credit.