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Pen Tool

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Anonymous, 31 March 2009 17:05

If you want to cut out a specific object or subject in a photograph, or fancy creating an ultra fine selection, Photoshop’s Pen Tool is one of the most precise tools to use. The Pen Tool can be found in the toolbox and the keyboard shortcut is the letter P. Before you start it’s important to set up the tool ...

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Pen Tool

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Anonymous, 31 March 2009 17:05

If you want to cut out a specific object or subject in a photograph, or fancy creating an ultra fine selection, Photoshop’s Pen Tool is one of the most precise tools to use. The Pen Tool can be found in the toolbox and the keyboard shortcut is the letter P. Before you start it’s important to set up the tool ...

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Off Camera Flash Kit Round-Up

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Anonymous, 17 February 2009 10:48

Free your flash!Off-camera flash or Strobism has become hugely popular in portrait and action photography, largely thanks to blogs such as Strobist.com and photo sharing sites like Flickr.com Vivid colours, bold shadows and theatrical lighting are achieved through the use of multiple flashes or strobes placed carefully around a subject, allowing the photographer to take total control of the lighting. ...

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Keyline Border

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Anonymous, 08 October 2008 15:52

A keyline border can be very easily applied onto any photograph and it’s a frequently used presentation technique. Images that have a keyline border appear more polished and presentable. Depending on the type of the image being used, a keyline border can be thick or thin, and the degree of thickness usually adds to the impact. See Digital Photo’s November ...

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Drop Shadow

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Anonymous, 08 October 2008 15:49

A drop shadow is usually applied to text to give it a little extra finesse and professionalism. The drop shadow sits behind the original text and imaging software programmes like Photoshop and Elements allow you to move drop shadows around and place them where you want them to be. The opacity of a drop shadow can also be reduced to ...

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Zoom burst

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Anonymous, 02 October 2008 11:46

Zoom burst is a technique that creates blurred streaks emanating from the centre of an image. The effect is created with zoom lenses that have a manual zoom ring. By using a slow shutter speed, generally under 1/60sec, and zooming into your subject while the shutter is open creates the zoom burst effect. The effect looks very similar to motion ...

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Red eye

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Anonymous, 02 October 2008 11:45

Red eye is the term given to eyes showing up as red in photographs. This commonly happens in low light when the flash is located close to the lens. Red eye occurs because the flash is too fast for the pupil to close - the light reflects off the back of the eyeball and back out through the pupil and ...

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Tripod

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Anonymous, 02 October 2008 11:41

A tripod is a three-legged camera support. They can be used to position, stabilise and elevate a camera when necessary. Tripods are especially useful for nighttime photography as they help eliminate blur, making long exposures possible. Many different types of tripod heads can be fitted to suit the photographer’s needs.

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Maximum Aperture

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Anonymous, 23 September 2008 17:16

A lens’s maximum aperture is the setting when the lens blades are open at their widest point, which in turn allows the maximum amount of light to pass down the lens. The maximum aperture of many lenses varies as you change focal lengths; with a focal length of 70mm the maximum aperture could be f/4.5, but when you zoom to ...

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Bokeh

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Anonymous, 23 September 2008 17:09

Bokeh is a photographic term that’s been used for around 10 years and is derived from the Japanese word for ‘fuzzy’. It refers to out of focus areas in an image and in particular the way that pinpoints of light are rendered by the lens’s optics. It’s generally considered that the more circular and fuzzier the image, the better the ...

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Natural Frames

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Anonymous, 22 September 2008 14:25

Composing an image so that one element of the composition surrounds the edges of the of the viewfinder frame can hep concentrate attention on the main subject. Looking for a frame within the viewfinder (such as an archway or tree bough) lends natural emphasis toward the subject in centre-frame and prevents the viewers’ attention from wandering.

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