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Curving RGB Color
Color correcting by numbers is a combination of art and science The digital darkroom offers more control over the imaging process than ever before with the promise of higher quality and quicker, easier...
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Aesthetics Of Black And White
Digital technology and equipment give you more control and the ability to make the finest black-and-white images ever, but there's an art to coaxing the best print from your image filesBlack-and-white...
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DPP Solutions: Get Into Multimedia
Giving new life to still photos with Apple Final Cut Pro 6 Today's technology makes it relatively easy to turn a series of photos into multimedia presentations with audio for even more impact. You can...
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Introduction To XDR
Extending the dynamic range in your images is possible with sound technique and a little software magic Reproducing the full range of tones or brightness values seen by the human eye is one of the most...
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Color Choice: Luminance, Chrominance And Hue
Among the tools at your disposal, the LCH Editor gives you a powerful weapon for finessing the color relationships in your images In a previous article, I explained “Color Choice Isn't By Chance”...
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Working The Flow
Whether on assignment for National Geographic or managing his massive stock archives, Frans Lanting's studio is constantly adapting to handle extreme challenges in digital-asset management Getting...
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DPP Solutions: Proper Contrast In Black-And-White
Using your digital tools gives you a level of control that Ansel Adams would have readily embraced 1. This is a pretty straightforward, “natural” rendition of contrast in a black-and-white photo. 2....
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XDR, Part II
Extend the dynamic range through this processing technique Reproducing the full range of tones or brightness values seen by the human eye is one of the most fundamental challenges in photography....
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The Battle Between Noise & Sharpness
Shooting at high ISOs and tweaking sharpness in an image can introduce excessive noise. Balancing these two aesthetic elements is an art. In the beginning of photography, most people were unaware or...
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Use Adobe Raw For B&W
Using the tools in ACR, you can work more efficiently and take advantage of RAW controls to make your black-and-white conversions 1) 1a) 1b) Adobe Camera Raw offers a number of powerful controls for...
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DPP Solutions: Setting Up Redundant Storage
A look at the extensive possibilities of external hard drives as a digital photo archive The ideal goal of any image management is simple: keeping finished images at arm's length without them being in...
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A good/better/best look at converting color photos to great black-and-white imagesRemember when “black-and-white or color?” was a choice made before you took a picture? The awesome ability to convert a...
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XDR, Part III
Double exposure gives you two times the image information to use in a final image This is the third in a series of “R/Evolution” columns on Extended Dynamic Range (XDR). Extending dynamic range has...
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Vision To Visuals: Back To School
Helping a learning institution define itself Dr. Ben M. Corpus, Vice President for Student Development and Enrollment Management and Dean of Students of Baruch College, approached Duggal Visual...
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XDR, Part IV
High-dynamic-range imaging HDR imaging will change the way you make exposures. HDR imaging will change the way you process your exposures. HDR imaging is the future of photography—to a large extent,...
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Pro Tips: Monitor Calibration
Without color calibration, you might as well be working in the dark I’m a photographer with a deep, dark secret: I’m color-blind. For those of you without this particular affliction, allow me to...
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Pro Tips: Chromozones
Gel your lights to create any colored background There seem to be two paths to becoming a rich and famous photographer: 1) Go to photo school; and 2) Assist for a great photographer. I chose the former...
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DPP Solutions: Image Optimization For The Web, Part I
How to evaluate and quickly set up your images for web usage You can set up image-exporting presets in software like Adobe Lightroom. This makes the exporting process fast. First impressions can make...
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XDR, Part V
HDR with Photoshop 4) Final image HDR imaging represents a radical departure from traditional forms of photography. HDR (high dynamic range) /images hold more luminosity than conventional cameras can...
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Stylize Your Images Using Digital Filters
The difference between a technically solid photograph and a real winner that makes clients stop for a closer look is a matter of style Figure 1 What makes winning /images win? Apart from the...
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