Steven Love

As many of you know digital noise is a very common problem with digital cameras, especially at ISO settings above 200.
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Some of you use programs that are specifically designed to remove noise, such as “Noise Ninja”. But most of you probably use Photoshop, which has a fairly steep learning curve when dealing with noise removal. Just running the image through the general noise reduction filter…

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A short time ago Bianca Thomas wrote a journal entry on “Stretching Pixels” and how enlarging an image can degrade it if you stretch the pixels too much.
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In essence she is correct. When you increase the image’s physical print size while leaving the pixel dimensions the same the DPI will have to drop in order to stretch the image to the needed size. These stretching of the existing pixels cr…

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Since there are a lot of opinions on how to work with RAW files I thought I’d write a journal entry explaining what I know about RAWs and how I work with them.
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This is a direct quote from my Olympus Camera manual; “RAW data is the unprocessed data from the camera’s sensor that has not undergone any changes or modification in white balance, sharpness, contrast or color.”
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Generally speaki…

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After the last bad bubble mail I got in response to one of my comments in someones Journal I have decided from this point on I will no longer comment on any artwork, photos or Journals.
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I have tried to be objective in my critiques, and I have tried to give advice when someone posts an entry in their Journal that seems like a question seeking an answer.
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But after the last angry response …

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This is a subject I think about everytime I view someone’s work; should I critique it or not?

I’ve discovered the hard way that some artists are very sensitive and don’t like any criticism of their work even when it is obvious that the picture in question needs it.

Sometimes I’ve critiqued works and then discovered later that my critique was simply deleted without any rebuttal. That irri…

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