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Fringeing in Elements

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Anonymous, 18 August 2010 15:25

Fringeing, or Chromatic aberration occurs with some zoom lenses. It happens because the red, green and blue light that makes up a colour image has slightly different wavelengths, and this means the different colours focus at different distances. Correcting the optics within a lens to account for this is fairly straight forward in fixed focal length (prime) lenses, but it’s ...

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Fringeing in Elements

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Anonymous, 18 August 2010 15:25

Fringeing, or Chromatic aberration occurs with some zoom lenses. It happens because the red, green and blue light that makes up a colour image has slightly different wavelengths, and this means the different colours focus at different distances. Correcting the optics within a lens to account for this is fairly straight forward in fixed focal length (prime) lenses, but it’s ...

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Lomography

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Anonymous, 07 July 2010 10:48

Lomography is a term often used to describe the use of lo-fi film cameras, such as the Lomo LC-A, Diana and Holga. These inexpensive and cheaply made cameras are often made with built in lenses, such as fisheyes and produce inconsistent and unpredicatable results, which when paired with unusual film processing can produce interesting and experimental results. "Lomo style" images ...

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Zombify yourself this Halloween!

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Anonymous, 29 October 2009 09:43

Getting into the swing of Halloween isn’t all about wearing costumes and plastic masks. Digital manipulation allows us to have all sorts of fun with images of ourselves, but it can take a long time to get things looking right. Zombieland is a comedy horror film that’s out this month, and the makers have a website where you can upload ...

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Refine Edge

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Anonymous, 31 July 2009 11:32

Refine Edge can be found in Photoshop CS3 and CS4 and provides a sophisticated way of improving the quality of selection edges. It also allows you to view a selection against different backgrounds to make the adjustments easier to see. Five sliders control inside Refine Edge Radius Slider: Increase the Radius to create a more exact selection boundary in areas ...

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Photo Filters

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Anonymous, 31 July 2009 11:26

For adjusting tones in your images, an excellent way is to use Photoshop’s built in Photo Filters, found by going to Image > Adjustments > Photo Filters or from the Adjustment Layer list in the Layers palette. It’s always best to use an Adjustment Layer if you want to work non-destructively. There are 20 Photo Filter presets to choose from ...

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Bicubic Smoother

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Anonymous, 31 July 2009 11:12

The Bicubic smoother is an Interpolation option from the drop-down list inside the Image Size Dialog box and is a good choice if you’re looking to increase the size of your images and offers smoother interpolated enlargements as a result. It’s also worth adding a small amount of sharpening after Interpolating using the Bicubic Smoother option. A close-up view of ...

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Remote Trigger

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Anonymous, 31 March 2009 17:14

If you need to fire your camera from a distance you’ll need a remote trigger. Unlike a cable release, remote triggers give you the opportunity to move much further away as they use infrared beams or radio frequencies to communicate with your camera. The ranges of remote triggers differ from trigger to trigger but there are versions that can fire ...

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Extract Filter

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Anonymous, 31 March 2009 17:09

The Extra Filter can be found in all versions of Photoshop,except CS4 and provides a sophisticated way to isolate foreground objects and erase backgrounds on a layer. It can be used to work around wispy or indefinable edges with the minimum amount of work. To access the Extract Filter, go to Filter in the Menu bar and it’s the third ...

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Adobe Camera Raw

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Anonymous, 22 January 2009 14:41

The Adobe Camera Raw is a piece of software that’s included as a plug-in with Adobe Photoshop and gives the user the ability to import and work with Camera Raw Files. To process images using the Camera Raw, select the files you wish to import in Bridge, choosing File from the Menu bar, selecting Open In Camera Raw. Equally dragging ...

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Feathering

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Anonymous, 22 January 2009 14:34

Feathering is a handy feature that’s used within image editing programmes and its purpose is to blur edges by building a transition boundary between a selection and it’s surrounding pixels. This gives an effect whereby the edges of a selection are much softer and less harsh than they were previously. Feathering can be used in combination with the Marquee, Polygonal ...

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