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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

  • Portrait / Architectural / people/culture / Macro / Landscape / Still live / Animal / Nude/FineArt / SunsetCollection / Flowers / Model Maria Anne / Model Saskia Ying / Model Blondie / Model Tammy / Kids / The Book Of Love All The Materials Contained May Not Be Reproduced, Copied, Edited, Published, Transmitted Or Uploaded In Any Way Without My Permission. My Images Do Not Belong To The Public Domain. / © Antoine Dagobert: using this image for any purpose and in any way, without prior permission, may lead to legal action. / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-— The Lady of the Flowers She lies amidst the flowers / A vision there to see / Such a stunning apparition / The lady of the sea / The perfume rises slowly / And matches all her charm / Forever and a day / May she be safe from harm / Phil Sanders 30/11/07 —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—--

  • Portrait / Architectural / people/culture / Macro / Landscape / Still live / Animal / Nude/FineArt / SunsetCollection / Flowers / Model Maria Anne / Model Saskia Ying / Model Blondie / Model Tammy / Kids / The Book Of Love / All The Materials Contained May Not Be Reproduced, Copied, Edited, Published, Transmitted Or Uploaded In Any Way Without My Permission. My Images Do Not Belong To The Public Domain. / © Antoine Dagobert: using this image for any purpose and in any way, without prior permission, may lead to legal action. / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-- Inspired by the poem of Gillian E. Shaw / X – Vis-à-Vis (Face to face) / / Suddenly, through a veil of tears I saw the knave. / Wearing guilt across a blighted face: / Like the ambitious wife hiding wrong and blood; / vile stubborn stain, longing to vanish. / Vainglorious conquests! Viewed from here; assonine / exploits with multiple illusions. / A magician with a box of tricks opening / up on the darkest day; winding down / to deeper proceedings. Charmed, stinking essence; / transparent, I saw the knave; hidden. France / November 2004 Gillian.E. Shaw / In case you miss it..my recents work..thanks in advance! / /

  • Nikon D200~AF-S Zoom Nikkor ED 18-200mm f/3.5-4.5G IF-DX / Portrait / Architectural / people/culture / Macro / Landscape / Still Life / Animal / Nude/FineArt / SunsetCollection / Flowers / Model Maria Anne / Model Saskia Ying / Model Blondie / Model Tammy / Kids / The Book Of Love —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-- All The Materials Contained May Not Be Reproduced, Copied, Edited, Published, Transmitted Or Uploaded In Any Way Without My Permission. My Images Do Not Belong To The Public Domain. / © Antoine Dagobert: using this image for any purpose and in any way, without prior permission, may lead to legal action. / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-- / Old Portrait Re-Worked! The Evening Squall Her thoughts drift with the clouds / Such beauty sitting there / The mind is running free / As in the distance stares / A moment to reflect / The night about to fall / Emotions running high / A silly Summer squall / And when the morning comes / Refreshed from nature’s sleep / A smile will spread so wide / No more the need to weep / Phil Sanders / 5/12/07

  • Portrait / Architectural / people/culture / Macro / Landscape / Still live / Animal / Nude/FineArt / SunsetCollection / Flowers / Model Maria Anne / Model Saskia Ying / Model Blondie / Model Tammy / Kids / The Book Of Love All The Materials Contained May Not Be Reproduced, Copied, Edited, Published, Transmitted Or Uploaded In Any Way Without My Permission. My Images Do Not Belong To The Public Domain. / © Antoine Dagobert: using this image for any purpose and in any way, without prior permission, may lead to legal action. —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—--

  • Portrait / Architectural / people/culture / Macro / Landscape / Still Life / Animal / Nude/FineArt / SunsetCollection / Flowers / Model Maria Anne / Model Saskia Ying / Model Blondie / Model Tammy / Kids / The Book Of Love —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-- All The Materials Contained May Not Be Reproduced, Copied, Edited, Published, Transmitted Or Uploaded In Any Way Without My Permission. My Images Do Not Belong To The Public Domain. / © Antoine Dagobert: using this image for any purpose and in any way, without prior permission, may lead to legal action. —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-- Which one is forbidden? / The Apple or The Lady?? / Guess what.. It is you who has to decide…LOL / Thanks for looking! Ant

  • a photoshop piece of my girlfriend on the swing. / i hope you enjoy, feel free to leave your comments and tips. Worktime: 8 hours / Layers: 19

  • / Portrait / Architectural / people/culture / Macro / Landscape / Still live / Animal / Nude/FineArt / SunsetCollection / Flowers / Model Maria Anne / Model Saskia Ying / Model Blondie / Model Tammy / Kids / The Book Of Love All The Materials Contained May Not Be Reproduced, Copied, Edited, Published, Transmitted Or Uploaded In Any Way Without My Permission. My Images Do Not Belong To The Public Domain. / © Antoine Dagobert: using this image for any purpose and in any way, without prior permission, may lead to legal action. —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—--

  • / Wonderful Tonight It’s late in the evening / She’s wondering what clothes to wear / She puts on her make up / And brushes her long dark brown hair / And then she asks me / Do I look alright / And I say yes, you look wonderful tonight We go a party / And everyone turns to see / This beautiful lady / That’s walking around with me / And then she asks me / Do you feel alright / And I say yes, I feel wonderful tonight I feel wonderful / Because I see the love light in your eyes / And the wonder of it all / Is that you just don’t realize / How much I love you It’s time to go home now / And I’ve got an aching head / So I give her the car keys / She helps me to bed / And then I tell her / As I turn out the light / I say my darling, you were wonderful tonight / Oh my darling, you were wonderful tonight (by Eric Clapton) / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-— / Portrait / Architectural / people/culture / Macro / Landscape / Still live / Animal / Nude/FineArt / SunsetCollection / Flowers / Model Maria Anne / Model Saskia Ying / Model Blondie / Model Tammy / Kids / The Book Of Love / -—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—- / All The Materials Contained May Not Be Reproduced, Copied, Edited, Published, Transmitted Or Uploaded In Any Way Without My Permission. My Images Do Not Belong To The Public Domain. / © Antoine Dagobert: using this image for any purpose and in any way, without prior permission, may lead to legal action.

  • I’ve always seen some songs as groups of haikus, talking about feelings or life situation, and Depeche Mode is one of my favorite groups ever. / A small haiku from “Enjoy the silence.” - Siempre he visto algunas canciones como conjuntos de Haikus, y Depeche Mode es uno de mis grupos preferidos desde siempre. / Un pequeño haiku de “Enjoy the silence”.

  • Ahh, Doom. Is there anything you couldn’t do?

  • Original Creation Date: September 25th, 2006 There is little that can move me as rapidly as a good 80’s song. / Simple Minds. Depeche Mode. Tears For Fears. Prince. The Cure. / My moods are no more than mere rhythmic reactions. / To me, they are gospel. Religion. Faith. / I raise my hands and worship in the church of 1984. Charcoal on 90 lb. paper, freehand, 16” x 22” / Original available for purchase.

  • UNTOUCHED BY NIKON D60 18-55mm. and tripod. / (No filter no any other equipment) Focal Length:18mm / Focus Mode:AF-A / AF-Area Mode:Single / Aperture:F/6,3 / Shutter Speed:20s / Exposure Mode:Manual / Sensitivity:ISO 100

  • Small cities have their own signs of industralization… [Nikon D2x]

  • FEATURED in the Everything Draft Horse & Carriage group August 2009 TOP TEN in the Everything Draft Horse & Carriage group challenge August Avatar August 2009 WINNER in the Rural NSW challenge Moderator Challenge July 2009 TOP TEN in the Equine Art and Photography Avatar challenge challenge June 2009 TOP TEN in the Mood & Ambience group challenge Classic Beauty June 2009 FEATURED in the Illawarra June 2009 FEATURED in the Everything Draft Horse June 2009 FEATURED in the Art By Bubble Hosts group May 2009 FEATURED in the Live, Love, Dream May 2009 Remember me In the startled wind we weave / A gentle mist of make- believe / A lover’s touch, a friend’s embrace / Of comforts warm & inner space The sands within our hourglass fall / Then we’re just not here at all / But our art & friendship linger on / To solace those from whom we’ve gone Chris51 Model: JacquiS / Equine Model: Kyra / Location: South Coast NSW

  • TOP TEN in the August Avatar Challenge in the Horse and Rider group August 2009 SOLD Laminated Print August 2009 FEATURED in the Out of the Past group May 2009 New Partner by Will Oldham There’s a black tinted sunset with the prettiest of skies / Lay back,lay back, rest your head on my thighs / There is some awful action that just breathes from my hand / Just breaths from a deed so exquisetly grand And you are always on my mind Well, I would not have moved if I knew you were here / Its some special action with motives unclear / Now you’ll haunt me, you’ll haunt me / Till I’ve paid for what I’ve done / It’s a payment which precludes the having of fun And you are always on mind But hello, I’ve got a new partner riding with me / I’v got a new partner, hello Now the sun’s fading faster, we’re ready to go / There’s a skirt in the bedroom that’s pleasantly low / And the loons on the moor, the fish in the flow / And my friends, my friends still will whisper hello / We all know what we know, it’s a hard swath to mow / When you think like a hermit you forget what you know And you are always on my mind / I’ve got a new partner, riding with me / I’ve got a new partner now Model: JacquiS / Equine Model: Kyra / Location: South Coast NSW

  • Artist’s Comments / Filtering the world through the body. Filtering: Model: / citronicstock Credits: / =bashcorpo / amptone-stock / vallendesterstock / DefaultUserNameStock Ash Sivils © 2007-2009 No Derivative Works — You may not alter, transform, or / build upon this work in any shape way or form unless you / gain a waiver from me, not a representative. You may not / import, export, print, redistribute or claim as your personal / work. You may not sell this art or assign right to others, all / images are copyrighted please respect those rights.

  • FOURTH in the Art By Bubble Hosts group challenge Sepia September 2009 FEATURED in the Glamour group August 2009 FEATURED in the Out of the Past group August 2009 FEATURED in the RB ALUMNI group August 2009 End Of The Line by the Travelling Wilburys Well it’s all right, riding around in the breeze / Well it’s all right, if you live the life you please / Well it’s all right, doing the best you can / Well it’s all right, as long as you lend a hand You can sit around and wait for the phone to ring / Waiting for someone to tell you everything / Sit around and wonder what tomorrow will bring / Maybe a diamond ring Well it’s all right, even if they say you’re wrong / Well it’s all right, sometimes you gotta be strong / Well it’s all right, as long as you got somewhere to lay / Well it’s all right, everyday is judgement day Maybe somewhere down the road aways / You’ll think of me, and wonder where i am these days / Maybe somewhere down the road when somebody plays / Purple haze Well it’s all right, even when push comes to shove / Well it’s all right, if you got someone to love / Well it’s all right, everything’ll work out fine / Well it’s all right, we’re going to the end of the line Don’t have to be ashamed of the car i drive / I’m just glad to be here, happy to be alive / It don’t matter if you’re by my side / I’m satisfied Well it’s all right, even if you’re old and grey / Well it’s all right, you still got something to say / Well it’s all right, remember to live and let live / Well it’s all right, the best you can do is forgive Well it’s all right, riding around in the breeze / Well it’s all right, if you live the life you please / Well it’s all right, even if the sun don’t shine / Well it’s all right, we’re going to the end of the line Model: Kimberley Erin / Equine model: Kyra / Location: South Coast New South Wales

  • Fine art black and white print – available matted or framed.

  • Photography Campus tutorial: How to use layer blend modes in Photoshop
    by Melinda Kerr

    Hi Guys. / Some of you may know I’ve recently started writing for DESKTOP magazine about all things photography and photography post produ…

    Hi Guys. / Some of you may know I’ve recently started writing for DESKTOP magazine about all things photography and photography post production. I am ‘soon’ going to launch an on line learning portal (subscription based) called the Photography Campus which will have video tutorials about photography & videography by real live working professionals. Anyway, I promised a few people that I’d put the articles up here once they’d gone to print. So here’s the November issues article: How to use layer blend modes in Photoshop. As creative folk, we have a wonderful knack of ignoring things when they get too technical. / For most of us, our left brain left years ago, tired of the lack of love and relentless mocking from its hyperactive sibling, the right brain. / It’s little wonder then, so many software functions are overlooked due to their, eeky – geeky – speakiness. / Take the layer blending modes in Photoshop. They promise so much with fancy names like multiply, hard light, dissolve and luminosity. Yet a quick look in many Photoshop help files reveal evil words like algorithms, percentages and the arch rival of all creatives..Maths. Urgh. / In fact the layer blend modes are little rippers when it comes to fixing images and creating interesting effects. They’re non destructive, versatile and quite frankly everywhere. (Seriously they breed like rabbits in Photoshop). / And here’s the thing. You don’t actually have to understand all of them to use them. / By in large understanding the theory of only a handful will have you speaking fluent blending modes and impressing your arty-farty-party friends in no time. Now for some maths you’ll really like. Sure there’s 25 layer blend modes listed in the drop down menu of PS CS4, but in reality they fit into 6 sections and truth be told there’s only 3 you really need to understand. Check out this diagram. The three sections you’ll use the most are the darken section, lighten section and the contrast section. In these groups if you understand one mode, you pretty much understand them all. Here’s how do they work. In short blending modes effect the way the top layer blends with the layer below it. Depending on which blend mode you choose, you can make images look lighter, darker, more contrasty, a different colour or a handful of other styles. / The first group in our layer blends diagram we’ve called ‘whatever’ because it’s not really all that interesting. / Normal is well, normal – as in default, as in 100% opaque, as in nothing exciting to see here…move on. / Dissolve is kind of like the annoying guy at the party. He has one trick (reproduces pixels randomly so things look a little pointilized) and pretty much that’s it. It’s probably not something you’ll use much if ever unless you are that annoying guy, in which case, go away. / The ‘dark’ section modes you will use a lot. They ignore white but blend the dark and black pixels, thereby making an image look darker. The Lighten modes ignore black but blend the lighter colours thus the making an image lighter. The contrast modes ignore mid grey but still blend the light and dark pixels and as such / create contrast. / To see it work in practice, here’s an experiment you can do yourself. 1. Create a Photoshop file. / Make sure it has 2 layers. The top layer has a 100% black object, a 50% grey object and a 100% white object. / The bottom layer is green. Your layers should look like this: 2. Choose the top layer and go to the layer blend mode. Choose Multiply…but wait before you do, ask yourself…if multiply comes from the ‘dark’ layer group what will the result be? Yup you guessed it, it will ignore white pixels, so as you see the white object disappears, the 100% black remains the same because you can’t get darker than that and the 50% grey object makes / the pixels below it darker. Therefore the entire image becomes darker. It will look like this: 3. Now choose Lighten. It ignores black so the 100% black disappears, the 100% white remains because you can’t get lighter than that and the everything below the 50% grey goes lighter. As such the entire image gets lighter. The image should look like this: 4. Finally, choose overlay. It ignores 50% grey, so the grey object disappears and the white and black objects remain. Thus the image will show greater contrast. See: By understanding these three modes you effectively have a good idea of how others in their sections work (give or take a few discrepancies…) If you include normal and annoying dissolve that’s 19 out of 25 sorted before you’ve even ordered your second chai latte. / As for the other blends, rather than us explain them, here’s a way to see their effect with a nifty little keyboard shortcut. / Choose your move tool (V). Make sure the top layer is chosen in the layers box. Hold down the shift key and press the – and + tools. This will scroll through every layer blend style and give you an instant preview of what happens with each one. / So now you know the theory how can you use it in practice? / The most obvious use is to fix exposure. / Here we have Jessie the wonder dog posing in an overexposed shot. Because she’s black and white she provides a good test case. / Firstly we create a new layer above our background layer. We can either just press cmd or ctrl j to duplicate the original layer, or if you wish to keep file size down, you can just choose a Levels adjustment layer and leave it untouched. It will ‘inherit’ the information on the bottom layer and allow you to work the blend modes just as effectively. / We want to blend the darker pixels whilst leaving the whites alone. So we activate the top layer and choose multiply. Shazam instant gratification. You can also try out the other modes in the Darken section to see the variations you can achieve. Here’s the before and after: Jess before multiply: Jess after multiply: Ok let’s try an underexposed shot. And this time we’ll use the Linear Dodge mode form out ‘Lighten’ section. Jess before Linear Dodge: After: Finally in the following shot Jess is exposed OK but looks awfully flat. She needs contrast and that means a mode from the contrast section. Try Overlay. Much better. Before Overlay: After Overlay: Once you’ve used a blend mode you can use it immediately again to ‘multiply’ the effect of it. You can also use the most well known blend mode of all – the opacity slider. Say I wanted to lighten the underexposed shot even more, I could go blend > lighten. Then create duplicate layer of that new layer and choose blend > lighten again. If two blends were too much, I could simply dull down the second blend my decreasing its opacity, effectively creating a ‘blend and a half’. / As an example of using multiple blend modes in the same file check out the following shot. The shot on the left (of a hot rock pool at Yellowstone National Park) is the original shot straight out of the camera. The shot on the right was achieved by combining a mix of layer blends just from the 3 main sections we’ve talked / about; darken, lighten and contrast along with the opacity slider. Some blends were used more than once. / In fifteen minutes we had the shot on the right. It could do with more work but it does show you what’s possible in a short period of time. BEFORE (straight out of the camera): AFTER: I did use a couple of quick layer masks in there as well to determine which part of the image the blend mode affected. What are layer masks you ask? Well, that’s for the December issue of DESKTOP. / In the meantime happy shooting and remember, with any program fear not the names of the processes, just experiment with them until you find what works for you. Then gloat. Some keyboard shortcuts relevant to this article: Use the corresponding number on your keyboard to set the opacity level, eg want 80% opacity? Press 8. / 50% press 5 etc. You get the picture (and yes you can have that pun for free). / To duplicate a layer press CTRL + J (WIN) CMD + J (Mac) / To cycle through blend modes: Press the move tool (V). Holding down the shift key and pressing the plus or minus key lets you toggle through the blend modes. If you’ve made it this far congrats! They key is just muck around and have fun :) / Follow my photo tips & news on Twitter @photocampus

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