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Top 10 iPhone Photo Apps

Honeysuckle Lunch — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 23:15:19 +0000

Since the introduction of the Apple iStore, the iPhone has become a much more valuable commodity than just a simple phone. It is a device with which users can organise their lives, network with friends and store precious memories in the form of photographs. With the high-resolution and easy to use interface that the in-built iPhone camera offers users, even the most amateur of photographers can shoot photographs of the highest quality.

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Keynotopia templates – prototype UI using Keynote and Powerpoint

Cyril Suarez — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 19:18:36 +0000

Keynotopia templates – prototype UI using Keynote and Powerpoint

You can now create high fidelity prototypes in just a matter of minutes with the tools you already know and use. Keynotopia provides you set of templates for Keynote or Powerfpoint to prototype like a Pro. You can create user interfaces and create interactive mockups for web, mobile, and desktop apps in minutes, without touching a design tool or writing a single line of code.

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Topaz B&W Effects Review

Michael Garmahis — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:57:13 +0000

Topaz B&W Effects Review

Topaz B&W Effects is a new black and white conversion and enhancement Photoshop plug-in from Topaz Labs. The developers used real film scans to accurately simulate the look and feel of historic black and white film. In addition to highly accurate traditional black and whites, Topaz B&W Effects provides you a number of creative tools to make stylish looking photos in a snap. They include detail, exposure and contrast control, a five-in-one selective brush, quad toning and finishing effects. With Topaz B&W effects you can apply over 200 presets to your photos with just one click.

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Lightroom vs Photoshop for photography post production

Emma Butler — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:27:50 +0000

Lightroom vs Photoshop for photography post production

About a year ago, I was sitting in a café in Harare, Zimbabwe. I spotted an artsy-looking guy with a Canon EOS 1D at a table across from mine and, as I’m a photographer, we got to talking. Turns out he was Rob Cooper, the famous wildlife photographer. He’s made the cover of Time magazine with his political photographs. After talking for a while, we got around to post production. I mentioned that I liked to use Lightroom, Adobe’s professional photography suite. He dismissed the idea and said that for a professional photographer, Photoshop was a better all-in-one tool

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Imagenomic Portraiture review

Michael Garmahis — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 19:02:44 +0000

Imagenomic Portraiture review

Portraiture is a Photoshop plugin which helps you to retouch portraits quickly and efficiently. Imagenomic Portraiture saves you a lot of time because you no longer need to spend hours on selective masking and tedious use of multiple Photoshop tools. Portraiture smoothens the skin and removes imperfections such as wrinkles, dark circles and freckles at the same time preserving skin pore texture and avoiding plastic look. Portraiture also preserves portrait details such as hairs, eyebrows, lashes. Besides natural looking portrait retouching, Portraiture can be used to create high-contrast and glamour effects for professional advertising and fashion photography

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Best Mac Apps for Artists and Designers

Almagreta — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:06:42 +0000

Best Mac Apps for Artists and Designers

The Mac App Store is a new Apple concept that has been available for about nearly two months now. The Mac App Store is a location for individuals to download applications. The act of downloading applications was, previously, something you could only do on iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. However, the Mac App Store has made it possible for Macintosh computers to be added to that list! Below, I have listed a few of the best applications on Mac for artists and designers. The applications below help improve projects and produce more ideas

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Topaz InFocus Review

Michael Garmahis — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 14:43:35 +0000

Topaz InFocus Review

Topaz InFocus is a new Photoshop plugin from Topaz Labs for restoring sharpness and clarity of blurred or shaken images. Now with Topaz InFocus you can rescue blurred photo which you would delete before without second guess because it was impossible to fix it. Unlike other sharpening tools (including Topaz Detail) InFocus uses specific deconvolution technology that can reverse image blur, i.e. unblur the out focus image

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Lightroom 3 review

Michael Garmahis — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:17:19 +0000

Lightroom 3 review

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 is the best tool to help professional photographers in managing thousands of digital images and doing post production work. Unlike multipurpose Photoshop, Lightroom was created around photographer’s workflow and it’s made to be ultimately efficient and fast. Lightroom consists of modules which are in fact steps in photography workflow: Library – image collection review and organization, Develop – non-destructive RAW and JPEG file editing, Slideshow – tools and export features, Print – layout options and preferences, Web – automatic gallery creation and upload. Lightroom presets for image enhancement or creative effects can be applied to multiple photos in a bunch. The newest version, Lightroom 3 brings in multiple improvements and new features to make already good software even better.

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Totally Rad Photoshop Actions Review

Michael Garmahis — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 13:27:54 +0000

Totally Rad Photoshop Actions Review

Totally Rad Photoshop Actions will help you to streamline your photography workflow and save many hours of tedious manual work in Adobe Photoshop. If you routinely adjust contrast, color balance, sharpness or retouch subjects for many photos, these professional actions could be a lifesaver. The only Photoshop skills you need to get pro looking photos with Totally Rad Actions is basic knowledge of Layers and Layer masks. The actions are very easy to install; very detailed manuals and video tutorials will help you to get the most of Totally Rad Actions use. Totally Rad Photoshop Actions will help you to transform the mood of an image making it more dramatic or soft, make your photos shine and people on your photos look flawless.

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Vertus Fluid Mask review

Michael Garmahis — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 13:59:45 +0000

Vertus Fluid Mask review

Fluid Mask is a fast and efficient masking plugin for Photoshop. Fluid Mask is a very effective tool for separating objects from their backgrounds quickly and easily using intuitive, color-coded paint tools that support tablet pressure. With features similar to Topaz Remask, Fluid Mask uses different algorithm and workflow. Fluid mask advantage over other masking plugins and Photoshop tools is how fast it works and how powerful it is. The Fluid mask really shines on hard images with background similar to the object and images with hair/defocused edges producing natural-looking cut-outs. Fluid Mask is perfect to cut out complex lattices such as bicycles, vegetation, hair, fur, trees, glass & translucent fabrics.

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Free Raw Converter RawTherapee

Michael Garmahis — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 13:16:27 +0000

Free Raw Converter RawTherapee

RawTherapee is a Windows/Linux free opensource Raw image converter. RawTherapee features non-destructive editing with all the internal processing done in 16 bits/channel. Besides numerous RAW files from digital camers, RawTherapee also opens and outputs JPEG, (8 and 16bit) TIFF and PNG images. The main questions for RawTherapee: the quality of Raw conversion and how it compares with other Raw tools

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Photoshop CS5 New Features

Michael Garmahis — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:59:43 +0000

Photoshop CS5 New Features

Photoshop CS5 new features look fantastic. Photoshop CS5 productivity and creativity enhancements will greatly speed up designers and photographers workflow as well as bring in new creative features to express your genius. Photoshop CS5 will include several groundbreaking new features such as new automated patching tools, new warping tool, highly improved edge detection in masking, a lot of improvements for brush using as well as color picker and eye dropper. Adobe Photoshop CS5 will be released on Monday, April 12, 2010. In this post we’re taking a sneak peak at all the new Photoshop CS5 features

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Create panoramic photo with Microsoft Image Composite Editor

Michael Garmahis — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:54:41 +0000

Create panoramic photo with Microsoft Image Composite Editor

Microsoft Image Composite Editor is one of the best and easiest to use free panoramic photo stitchers. In a number of tests made by panoramic photography community, Microsoft ICE is 4-6 times faster that panoramic photo market leaders such as Hugin and Autopano Giga without compromise in quality. Microsoft ICE takes a set of overlapping photographs of a scene shot from a single camera location and creates a high-resolution panorama that seamlessly combines the original images.

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Illustrator free alternatives

Michael Garmahis — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:54:47 +0000

Illustrator free alternatives

Illustrator free alternatives are great apps for editing and creating vector images. Some of these Adobe Illustrator alternatives have advanced features suitable for professional work with vector files while other is very simple tools to quickly create vector logo, diagram, illustration. The main advantage of the vector software in this review: it’s free unlike not cheap Illustrator. Illustrator doesn’t have an online version as well. Don’t miss Free Photoshop alternatives

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Topaz ReMask Photoshop plugin review

Michael Garmahis — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:39:38 +0000

Topaz ReMask Photoshop plugin review

Topaz ReMask is an extraction tool on steroids which works easily and fast. Topaz ReMask can save you tons of time and efforts. With Topaz ReMask you can painlessly extract objects, change backgrounds, refine selections including complicated objects such as hair, fog, fur. You can use Topaz ReMask to create masks or just to separate object from background and seamlessly integrate with other images. While images with complex edges are traditionally hard for masking, ReMask helps a great deal in details extraction of the subject without requiring a lot of manual work

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