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• TIP: A very useful colour adjustment tip
  by Alan Rodmell

  I am currently working through my third CS3 tutorial and I picking up a ton of useful tips for my photographic workflow. I just HAD to s…

  I am currently working through my third CS3 tutorial and I picking up a ton of useful tips for my photographic workflow. I just HAD to share this one with you. Regarding Hue/Saturation. When you overdo this on an adjustment layer in your photos your detail is lost and it looks really blocky. Sometimes you just can’t get the saturation adjustments you need. Here’s how its done – Thank you to Chris Orwig for this one. 1) Open you image and convert it to LAB colour using: Image – Mode – Lab Colour 2) Create a curves adjustment layer 3) In the Curves dialog box ALT-click the grid to get a more detailed display 4) Go to the a – channel 5) Pull the black slider on the bottom of the grid into the right just one grid line (in this example although you can play!) 6) Pull the white slider opposite into the left by the same one grid line 7) Switch to the b channel and repeat. 8) Check out your image. This method actually increases saturation in tones you couldn’t even see that you had. Its excellent for autumn leaves or rivers and waterfalls. 9) When your done exit Curves dialog and convert your image back to RGB (select to Flatten in the pop up prompt) 10) Your all done. This is by far the best tip I’ve discovered so far. I tried it out of interest on a shot from this afternoon and it brought out lovely greens in Autumn leaves and a lovely hazy blue on water and waterfalls. Try it – I think you will like it! :D

• Additions To My Main Website Learning Curve Section
  by NATURELENS

  Dear All For those who may be interested. I have had some time free lately and so completed 3 new sections detailing my own learing…

  Dear All For those who may be interested. I have had some time free lately and so completed 3 new sections detailing my own learing, thoughts and research on the following subjects: Use of Canon’s IS function and a tripod Cropped sensor or full sensor for long lens work Photographing birds in flight THIS LINK will take you directly to the sections I hope they prove to be of some use to others. Regards Neil

• From Good to Great (hopefully) using Photoshop CS2 Basics
  by Nikki Trexel

  By Nikki Trexel I was in North Carolina’s Outer Banks for ten days, a summer paradise …

  By Nikki Trexel I was in North Carolina’s Outer Banks for ten days, a summer paradise for one Midwestern girl who’s never been to the ocean. Many photos were captured, such as A Sandy Stairway to Heaven, and the ocean was lapping at our ankles and The Shadows Ascend. But this, one of the first taken at the beach, immediately stuck out to me as having potential: And so you can compare them side by side, here’s the final product. / / The first thing I did when I opened the photo was crop a little extra space off the bottom and left-hand side. This gives the photo a more balanced composition. The sand shouldn’t be the first thing the eye lands on. I also rotated it one or two degrees counter-clockwise to even out the horizon line (Image>Rotate Canvas>Arbitrary). These are very important steps and I recommend doing them first. (And if I hadn’t been trying to keep up polite conversation with the person showing me around, I might have even gotten it right when I took the photo.) Then I had a play in Curves (Ctrl+M or Image>Adjustments>Curves). This is a very powerful tool which, used appropriately and subtly, can create more “pop” and intensity in a bland photo. It can take a while to get the hang of, but for me, the best results are often obtained by creating two or three “pins” and dragging the line so it creates a kind of subtle S-curve like this: / / Here’s roughly how Curves works: the line represents darker tones towards the bottom and left, and lighter ones towards the top and right. So, for example, if you drag the top part of the line down, it’ll make the highlights darker; and if you drag it upwards, your bright spots will be ever brighter. Be very careful, though, not to blow out any highlights or over-darken the dark spaces. It’s easy to get carried away with the Curves tool and make your photo look pretty ridiculous. Next, I used the Replace Color tool (Image>Adjustments>Replace Color) to make my chairs a little brighter without oversaturating the blue sky. Here, you just use the dropper to select which color you’d like to alter, and make sure the “Fuzziness” slider on the Replace Color window is increased as much as possible without starting to apply to stuff you don’t want it to. Here it’s simple because there is only one pink and one green area in my photo. All I did was “grab” each color with the dropper, and slightly increase the saturation. (It might be a bug in my version of Photoshop, but you might have to close out the window, then open it again to start working on a new color.) Again, this is something you have to get the hang of, but after a while it becomes second nature. I also cloned out one or two swimmers in the distant water. Not much more than a dot or two of cloning was necessary – they were only large enough to be spots in my lovely blue water. The last, and most important thing, I did with this image was – I guess it’s pretty obvious – give it a nice sky. I kind of liked the simplicity of the plain blue sky in the original, but I wanted the image to be special. I was lucky enough to have a similar photo of the clouds, taken on the same beach but on another day. I chose it because the size, depth and lighting were mostly correct already. I had to slightly alter the color to make it match the “feel” of the original photo. Here is my new sky in its primitive form. My original sky is also a very simple one to replace. The only thing sticking into the sky area is my duo of beach chairs. (If it had been a more complicated horizon, I would have probably opted for a smooth blue sky.) My chosen method for this simple replacement was simply to Clone the new sky overtop of the other old one. (There are more complex and useful ways utilizing Layers but there is really no need for that now. Plus, I don’t know how to use those ways.) This method won’t work every time, so you’ll need to size up your options to see how you’re going to create your masterpiece. If the sky to be replaced is very simple, with not a lot of complications like trees or people or other things in front of it, then you are golden. Lastly, I did a little bit of final tweaking to the entire image to make everything feel right. That included a bit of dodging and burning in my clouds, a slight saturation increase overall, and a couple of tiny clone jobs to get rid of a few blades of grass apparently growing out of the ocean (courtesy of the foreground of my new sky). You’ll have to work with this on your own photo and see what looks best. Every photo is different, and every path from good to great is totally unique. Here is my final product again, which took me a little less than a half-hour from start to finish. / Rhapsody in Blue Thanks so much for reading!

• Featured! Wow!
  by Leslie Battjes

  Thanks, so much for featuring my work in the following groups: / *Firelight-...

  Thanks, so much for featuring my work in the following groups: / Firelight was featured in Seashells and / Folds of Blue was featured in Globes, Spheres and Curves What an honor! Thanks! :D

• Wow ! Artist of the Month for the Globes, Spheres and Curves Group
  by jewelskings

  Just got back from a 3 day trip to my folks house and what exciting news to find when i got home ! Thank you all for your support! This i…

  Just got back from a 3 day trip to my folks house and what exciting news to find when i got home ! Thank you all for your support! This is awesome! It is such an honor with all of those talented people on the bubble! Wow!

• Outside the comfort zone
  by Jodie Noonan

  I am being pushed – and yet pushing myself at the same time. The rules are … / 100 ISO only! / No more auto white balance / NO POST PRO…

  I am being pushed – and yet pushing myself at the same time. The rules are … / 100 ISO only! / No more auto white balance / NO POST PROCESSING whatsoever / No Chimping and / compose the shot first (no zooming in and out to get the shot) I am sure it will be ok after a couple of weeks and I can certainly see the benefit. . . just seems mighty daunting now. Are we relying on the digital age we are in to much?

• Wow!
  by Rhonda Walker

  Thank you so much Boolean Art and Globes, Spheres and Curves...

  Thank you so much Boolean Art and Globes, Spheres and Curves for using my images for the group pictures. Thank you to the members who voted for my art work, it is so nice to be recognized. It is certainly appreciated.

• As I Am
  by Samantha R

• Robyn's News
  by Robyn Carter

  First – thanks for all the comments and favs and all those that have added me to your watchlist. It is all very very much appreciated. ...

  First – thanks for all the comments and favs and all those that have added me to your watchlist. It is all very very much appreciated. I have to admit I don’t reallly know the etiquette here on RB – does one thank each and every comment/fave/watch via bubblemail, or do they reply to the comment in the image comment box, which the person who originally commented, may never see? I’m never sure, as it doesn’t seem to work quite so smoothly as on Deviantart. (Those friends of mine also on DA will understand what I mean). So tell me what you do and what you expect. Educate me :) Secondly – I have become co-moderator of the Macro Group. If you do macro’s and aren’t already a member of the group – I encourage you to join – it’s great. And lastly, I’ve recently downloaded photomatix pro – so expect a few HDR works from me in the next few weeks. If you do HDR yourself, please don’t hesitate to properly critique my work and say what you honestly think. I’m here to learn, and I’m one that believes that Photography is one great big learning curve no matter how long you’ve been doing it. Cheers / Robyn

• Free Photoshop Basic Tutorial for the PEN TOOL!
  by DieselLaws

  I have had many people ask me how do I create my characters, and so I have decided to dedicate a few hours (ok, it was 5 in total) to c…

  I have had many people ask me how do I create my characters, and so I have decided to dedicate a few hours (ok, it was 5 in total) to create, edit and post up a Free Photoshop Basic Tutorial for the PEN TOOL! The tutorial is based around creating this character > If you would like to you can view it here, http://diesellaws.com/photoshop-beginners-tutorial-pen-tool-page-1/ Hope this helps anyone wanting to get started in creating Vector Artwork! Speak soon, Diesel Laws

• Feature in Globes, Spheres and Curves
  by Lesley Hill

  Just found one of my images ‘Do You Have Spare’ as a feature in this inspiring group. Thank you for including my image. ; -) This was ta…

  Just found one of my images ‘Do You Have Spare’ as a feature in this inspiring group. Thank you for including my image. ; -) This was taken on a school camp! Hope more people enjoy my work! Love to hear from you, your comments are of value to me on all my work! Thanks for stopping by! / Cheers / Lesley /

• Watch Me Work
  by Rowan

  If you want, you can watch the rendering on my fractal “darkside” here This, again, uses…

  If you want, you can watch the rendering on my fractal “darkside” here This, again, uses the program Context Free to recursively draw the design. It can save the image by rendering to any size (or a video).

• Work featured in Globes, Spheres and Curves
  by Lesley Hill

  Thanks to the group for including my piece ‘Do you have a spare?’ in the features! =) / !http://images-2.redbubble.net/img/art/framecolor:...

  Thanks to the group for including my piece ‘Do you have a spare?’ in the features! =) /

• Learning curve
  by Steven Joyce

  I am new to photography and am finding it a steep learning curve, ok so I can shoot a half decent sunset or sunrise so I have been told, ...

  I am new to photography and am finding it a steep learning curve, ok so I can shoot a half decent sunset or sunrise so I have been told, starting with good material makes it easier though and sunset or rise is just a special time for me (passion showing through?) one of the main things I have learnt is that its all about capturing light or its absence? sometimes its whats hinted at in the picture that makes it worth looking at, not whats actualy there, Light to the side perhaps instead of straight on. / am I on the right track with this plane of thought?

• Technologically Challenged
  by Bethie

  So everyday of my life i go in my pool and always have my cell phone with me. Today i even had my house phone with me, expecting an impo…

  So everyday of my life i go in my pool and always have my cell phone with me. Today i even had my house phone with me, expecting an important call. But today, i just so happened to drop my BlackBerry Curve into my pool and it sunk a couple feet before i caught it. I blow dried it immediately, and even kept it in rice for a few hours. / And now it doesn’t work. So i ordered a new one which should be in by tomorrow. / In the meantime, I don’t exist. / I’ve realizved how pitiful i am. I depend on my phone so much, even more so since it’s a blackberry. I have everything on it and would be devestated to find out tomorrow that my new one’s not in yet (because then i’d have to wait til monday) or that they can’t transfer my numbers from my old wet phone. I have fun without my phone, i do things that don’t involve it. But everything in my life kind of depends on it. / I need to call people to meet places, and texting don’t even get me started. And if it weren’t for balckberyr messenger, jeremy romani would have never been able to tell me to listen to the chicago radio, call in, and ask a serious question, to make his band look good on the air. / My phone also gets me into trouble. Certain pictures or messages to or from certain people aren’t always cool to anyone viewing my phone other than myself. And it’s so easy to send a text that might be hurtful or rude; or to not answer a text for that! / Anyone would agree that it would suck to lose al lmy phones numbers i have saved, because let’s face it, who even KNOWS anyone’s number off hand? But now i’m going to have to reset all my settings that i was so comfortable with, reload music and all that good stuff. Big deal right? Seriously, cell phones have taken over as a part of our brain: the part that knew people’s numbers, the part that spoke to people to their face as opposed to in text or the very rare phone conversation, the part that can remember important dates and events without having to look things up in a tiny calendar, the imagination and creativity that has become flipping thru texts, playing games on a tiny screen, and updating facebook status. We are now keen to our own ringtones, and each alert for every type of message, email, and notification. / Tonite i’m going out. Let’s try this. No cell phone. Just me.