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Unsharp Mask: How Do You Actually Use That Thing?
Until recently, if someone said the word “sharpening” to us, we’d whimper and hide under the table. We mean, what the #$% is a threshold anyway? Well, we finally got fed up with it, so we did some...
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Black and White Conversion: The Best Ways to Turn Color Digital Photos Into...
Long long ago, Black-and-White ruled the Earth. Frosty white highlights frolicked with rich black shadows in the Meadows of Grayscale, and it was good. Then came Digital, whose dingy whites and muddy...
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Get Greater Depth of Field with the Brenizer Method
Extra photos for bloggers: 1, 2, 3 Do you dream of faster lenses, larger apertures, and ice cream? We do too! Too bad, brand new lenses don’t drop into our laps everyday. Fortunately, photographer...
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Aquatopiary: The Photo Trick that Sculpts Water into Shapes
Extra photos for bloggers: 1, 2, 3 Bored of photographing plain old water? Try an Aquatopiary, the incredible photo trick that sculpts water into shapes. (If you can splash around in a tub, you can...
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Photo Forensics: How to Tell if a Photo’s Been Faked
Seen this 1940’s photo floating around the net with a “time-traveler” seemingly sporting an SLR, shades, and NIN t-shirt? Wondered if it’s real? So did we. So, we decided to turn to photo forensics:...
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Get Sharp Photos with These Easy Tricks
Extra photos for bloggers: 1, 2, 3 Getting a once-in-a-lifetime shot is every photographer’s dream, but having those shots tainted by blur can be gut-wrenching. While you might not be able to choose...
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Giving Photos a Touch of Picasso — Deconstructed Buildings
Cubist, Inception-esque, so-freakin’-cool! Call it what you will. Michael Jantzen’s digital deconstructions of houses and churches will make you look twice. He collages Picasso-esque buildings by...
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Litely’s Subtle & Sophisticated Photo Presets are What You’ve Been Waiting For
You tried running your DSLR photos through phone apps. But the details got lost, and you were left with a tiny photo! Cole Rise’s Litely might just have made the perfect preset actions for your...
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Seeing Double: Learn How to Clone Yourself
Extra photos for bloggers: 1, 2, 3 Have you ever had a dream where you looked around the room and everyone looked exactly like you? Wait, was that a dream? Either way, you can turn your camera into...
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How to Use Photography to Help in Natural Disasters — Operation Photo Rescue
UPDATE 5/22: Due to an overwhelming response, Operation Photo Rescue has closed their volunteer registration. Check back later! We’ll update when it opens again. You’ve run through this fire drill a...
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“Good artists copy; great artists steal.†—Pablo Picasso (and Steve Jobs)
This dude named Karl has come up with a super-simple process that lets anyone, even beginners, turn photographs of people into beautiful illustrations (for posters, prints, or whatever.) Julian...
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The Miniature Model Effect in Photoshop: It’s a Small World After All
Photo by ElbCoast77 You know how when you’re in an airplane about to land, everything down below starts to look like it’s part of a little toy world? Little toy trucks driving around, little tiny ant...
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Add Picture-Perfect Hair to Your Photos in 10 Minutes or Less!
Ditch the toupee, the spray-on hair, and the brochures for pricey follicle transplant surgery. If it’s hair you want, take our word for it: a little photo retouching is the quickest, cheapest, and most...
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You Don’t Look a Day Under 85! — Add Years to Anyone’s Face, Instantly!
Dear gentle readers, we’re tired of the unrealistic ideal of youth and beauty stuffed down our collective throats by television, magazines, and movies. We say nuts to wrinkle-reducing botox,...
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Turn Your Photos into Lichtenstein-inspired Comic Book Art
Earning your chops as a painter is no easy task. But if you manage to do it, and further, do it while critics lambast your pieces for being mere copies of comic book panels, you must be something...
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The Orton Effect — Beautiful, Impressionistic Images from Your Photos
Dazzling. Soft, elegant, glowing. The Orton Effect is a fast way to give your photos a dreamy look. Michael Orton uses this technique with multiple images taken on slide film. Thanks to modern image...
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