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Skip to the good parts with photoshop actions and batch processing
I frequently hear photographers talk about maximizing their time behind a camera and minimizing their time at the computer. It's not the creative postproduction that these photographers want to avoid—it's the digital drudgery that can consume so much of a one's time. Tasks like file management and basic processing aren't nearly as fun and interesting as creative retouching and image processing....
Tips and software for making beautiful monochrome images digitally
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Digging in to Photoshop’s five resampling options
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It’s the grain of the digital age. Learn how to tame it.
![]() Noise, the digital equivalent of film grain, can be a challenge to overcome. It appears as an irregular, sand-like texture that, if small, is essentially invisible; if large, it can be unsightly and a distraction from your image. Noise can have color to it (chro... Read More »
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How to use software to creatively enhance
![]() Digital infrared photography opens up a whole new world of creativity, even for photographers who already have a creative bent. If you have an older digital camera that you're not using, two companies, Life Pixel (Read More »
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