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Photography - PopPhoto.com Offers Camera Reviews and Exclusive P. 60 Photography Links You Can’t Live Without « CameraPorn. Sharpen Photo Like a Pro in Photoshop. There are a hundred ways to improve your photos using Photoshop photo editing. In addittion to color correction, the other important aspect of photo editing that you should be looking at is how to sharpen images. Photoshop offers you extraordinary degree of control over the sharpness of your image. One built-in option is to use the Unsharp Mask filter, which has been present even in the older versions of Photoshop.

With the introduction of Photoshop CS2, however, Smart Sharpen filter which gives better results and greater control over the Unsharp Mask filter becomes a favorite of most users, especially photographers, to sharpen images. Interested? First Step: Convert your photograph from RGB or CMYK to Lab. Second Step: Open the channel palette. Third Step: Choose the channel There are three channels: L stands for lightness which is what you get when you convert to grayscale; A is Red to Green, B is Blue to Yellow. Fifth Step: Convert the image back to RGB. Space and Planet Photoshop Tutorials To Create Amazing Space Sce. There a lot of space tutorials out there some are better than others, I have managed to try and select a few of what I think can allow you to get great effects that look like they belong and don’t look completely Photoshopped.

I tried to be as varied as possible so there are tutorials for creating planets, stars, nebulas and atmospheric type gasses. The great thing is that they lay down the building blocks to experiment and create you own stunning universe. Gas bursts and Atmosphere This tutorial shows you how to create some great gas explosions coming from the planets atmosphere with some pretty simple tools, yet looks stunning Realistic Star fields Create realistic star fields, the trick with this one is to be totally random and keep building up your layers the end result will speak for it self, with an image that looks like its evolving.

Simple Star fields Create simple yet affective star fields in 8 easy steps. Realistic Galaxy Realistic Space Nebula Space Nebula Make a Planet Planet Tutorial. The Best Sites For Online Photo-Editing & Photo Effects | Larry. Over the past few years, I’ve been accumulating links to — and experimenting with — various online photo editors and sites for photo effects. There are certainly a zillion of them out there. I finally decided it was time to narrow all the links down into some kind of “The Best…” list, and have divided this post into two sections. The first part lists sites where you can upload your own images and, with no registration required (or, perhaps, in one or two instances, an extremely minimal registration process) easily edit the photo or add effects. The second section lists sites that I’ve specifically used with my English Language Learner students.

These sites let you easily grab an image off the web, lets you add add a speech bubble to it, and then gives you a more or less permanent url address for your creation that you can post on a student or teacher website/blog. I’m sure I will have missed some applications out there, so feel free to share your suggestions in the comments section. Dr. 10 Blogs to Help You Become a Photography Expert. Photography often plays a major role in web design. So It’s no surprise that many web designers have an interest in it. However, there are so many aspects to photography such as lighting, composition, and equipment features that can make it difficult to master. In this article I’ve rounded up 10 of the best blogs that consistently produce valuable tips and resources to help you with your photography.

Digital Photography School Digital Photography School is a website with simple tips to help digital camera owners get the most out of their cameras. The Photo Argus The Photo Argus is a resource for photographers novice to advanced. Epic Edits Epic Edits is a resource and community for photography enthusiasts of all experience levels. PetaPixel PetaPixel was born in May of 2009, and is a blog about photography geared towards tech-savvy digital photographers. Strobist Strobist is about one thing: learning how to use off-camera flash with your dSLR to take your photos to the next level. Photojojo.