Tilt-shift miniature faking is a post-processing technique, which involves selectively blurring a photo to simulate the narrow depth of field found in macro photography and some tilt-shift photography, making the image appear to be of a miniature model.
Photoshoppers, have you use them all before? I started at Photoshop 7.0. Looks like the masking tool is an add-on, PS.87 and PS1 doesn’t have the masking icon on the palette.
Sumo is a flash based photoshop clone that works within a web browser. Impressive!
It’s that time again: time to upgrade your copies of Adobe’s apps to the latest and greatest Creative Suite 4 releases. Adobe is offering six bundles this time, including the Design Premium ($1,800), Design Standard ($1,400), Web Premium ($1,700), Web Standard ($1,000), Production Premium ($1,700), and the anything-and-everything Master Collection ($2,500). Of course, upgrade pricing is available as well, and with new versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, After Effects, and Premiere available, that’s a really great thing.
Adobe has announced that the next version of Creative Suite will be unveiled on September 23. Adobe is showing web broadcasts to publicly launch the new software, but it probably won’t be available to buy until October. Adobe recently released the beta version of the CS4 Dreamweaver, Fireworks, and Soundbooth. Go to Adobe Labs to download them.
To see the web broadcast of the CS4 unveiling on the 23rd, register here:
Pixlr is a new free flash based online image editor from Sweden. It’s like Photoshop Express, but easier to use. Jump in and start to edit, adjust, filter. It’s just what you imagine!
This site converts bitmap images to vector art it’s an online auto-tracer. Just upload your image and we will vectorize it for you.
Here’s some handy Mac and PC shortcuts for Photoshop CS3 - organized into four pages, by menu, as well as alphabetically by key. They’re available in 2 PDF downloads - one for mac and one for PC.
A Worth1000 Photoshop contest. Detouching: removing the retouching from airbrushed celebs.
The UK publication, The Sun, was caught ERASING THE CAPTAIN of a tiny boat that contained Prince William and seven sailors. Well, they didn’t erase all of him. You can still see his disembodied leg in the altered photo.
Awesome effect pics! Images created using the Escher Droste effect formula. Created using Mathmap and the GIMP. From Flickr user Droste Effect.
UK reborn artist Deborah King and her fake baby-dolls. The process of reborning a doll is being able to create as realistic baby as possible.
This is achieved by firstly buying or creating a doll mould to start the reborning process. It is then neccessary to begin colouring the dolls head, body and limbs through a variety of different techniques to give a very realistic human skin effect. This takes multiple layers of different paints to create mottled effects such as that of a newborn baby.
Essential HDR is an HDR generator and tonemapper. It has a global and a local tonemapping operator. The local TMO (Detail Revealer) is the big selling point. According to the developers it is a new algorithm that produces less artifacts (halos, over-saturation) and runs at a decent speed (multicore support). I can wholeheartedly agree: this is indeed a very powerful tonemapper. Without much fuzz I got a very natural images, the preview is pretty accurate, and it is super-easy to use. For control freaks there might be too few sliders, but I find it very intuitive.
Hehe, well, I just wanted to share this lovely Photoshopped image - a true cameraphone.
cameraphone.jpg [intomobile.com]
You can create stunning panoramas by “stitching” together several adjoining images with Photomerge. Then, with just a few tweaks, you can create a poster print for your home or office.
Shooting a panorama is easy if you keep a few things in mind;
Once you have your images, go to [File> Automate> Photomerge...] From the Photomerge dialog box, Use [Files, Folders, or Open files] Select Files and click [Browse] to locate the images you want to use. Once selected, the names of your images will appear in the window. By default, Attempt to Arrange source Images will be checked, if you uncheck this you will have to order the pictures yourself. Photomerge does a pretty good job, so I leave it checked. Then click OK.
Considering last week’s Iranian missile story, I though that Henry Hadlow’s Tell A Lie project was rather fitting:
onOne’s Plug-in Suite has been updated. This award-winning software suite features six essential tools at one low price, conveniently offering photographers the products they need to improve their busy workflow.
Available in early May, onOne Software’s Plug-In Suite 4 combines full versions of six essential software tools — Genuine Fractals 5 Print Pro, PhotoTools 1.0 Professional Edition, PhotoFrame 3.1 Professional Edition, Mask Pro 4.1, PhotoTune 2.2 and FocalPoint 1.0 — an affordable combination that includes everything a photographer needs to make their images look their best.
