Pixlr is a web-based image editor that is quite good. It does most of the things you usually need an image editor to do, rotate, crop, flip, color-balance, levels, curves, hue and saturation. It has effects like sepia, solarize and desperate. Pixlr has filters like blur, noise, halftones and more. It has all the tools that we expect in Read More→
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The one thing that bothers me the about some of my photos and the photos of others is having straight lines that are not parallel to the vertical and horizontal plans. What I mean is vertical lines should be vertical and horizontal lines should be horizontal. The exception to this is converging lines like train tracks. The further away the closer together the lines appear. Read More→
This is an overview of what HDR is and an overview of how to use Photomatix. You can see all free tutorials by checking out Trey Ratcliff’s Read More→
Here’s one more HDR walk-trough From Trey Ratcliff. This time he’s at the Eiffel Tower showing you how he shot a great photo after sunset. Read More→
The fantastic photographer Trey Ratcliff shows you a little about his shooting HDR procedure. Read More→
Mostly Photo is a new podcast from Leo Laporte’s TWiT network all about photography. Mostly Photo will helps everyone take better pictures by teaching you how get the most out of your digital camera, Read More→
If I was to start over again with graphics software I would not be using Photoshop. It is far to expensive. Hundreds of dollars! I would use the GIMP now. But I got a good deal on Photoshop CS1 a few years ago and watched Photoshop TV now Photoshop User TV. Unless you plan to use CS2 or CS3 I would not bother because these guys are all about promoting the latest product.
RSS Feed: http://www.photoshopusertv.com/?feed=rss2
Here is a recently restored photo that I have been working on. A lot of what was wrong with this photo was not fixed by Photoshop. It was very stained and very dirty. I had to remove the dirt covering the picture first. If you Google cleaning photos it will tell you much better techniques to do this. I was doing this for free so I did not want to spend any money so I used alcohol. I stared in a corner of the photo to see if there was any problems before using it before cleaning the entire photo. After cleaning the picture and scanning it into Photoshop as a color image I then used a “Hue and Saturation adjustment layer” to to take out the yellow cast. I used a second “Hue and Saturation” adjustment layer to adjust the the lightness of the yellow around the wheel area to remove a big yellow blotch. I fixed the contrast and brightness with a “Levels adjustment layer”. Then used the “Clone Stamp Tool” and finally the “Healing Brush Tool” to take out smudges, and scratches. That’s it! More Photoshop tips!
The GIMP (Gnu Image Manipulation Program) is a free and opensource graphic editing program not unlike Adobe PhotoShop.
The GIMP like PhotoShop can be very difficult to learn. “Meet The GIMP” is a video podcast of GIMP tutorials or lessons. MTG will walk you through the basics of using The GIMP.
I posted about MTG I while back after that I there was a pause and I thought he went off air but he has been posting regularly. Losts of new episodes!
You can click the links on the website to watch the episodes or use the
RSS Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/meetthegimp
Windows Live Photo Gallery is a program included in the new Windows Live Essentials a suite of great products offered free from Microsoft for download. WL Photo Gallery imports all of your photos then you can make adjustments to them. (crop, adjust brightness, color etc.) You can stitch photos together to create great panoramas, tag them and upload them to the internet to share with other online.
