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Wedding Photography - 10 Top Tips

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Anonymous, 13 January 2010 17:19

Taking on your first ever wedding commission can be an immensely scary prospect. If you’ve recently agreed to photograph a wedding for family or friends, it’s important to know what you need and what’s involved to achieve the best possible pictures on the big day. We’ve pulled together 10 top wedding tips to help you prepare. Some of the tips ...

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Wedding Photography - 10 Top Tips

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Anonymous, 13 January 2010 17:19

Taking on your first ever wedding commission can be an immensely scary prospect. If you’ve recently agreed to photograph a wedding for family or friends, it’s important to know what you need and what’s involved to achieve the best possible pictures on the big day. We’ve pulled together 10 top wedding tips to help you prepare. Some of the tips ...

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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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Photograph a ghost

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Anonymous, 29 October 2009 09:25

Halloween is almost upon us, so why not let your imagination take over and shoot something especially for this spooky festival. You don’t even need a willing model because you can do that yourself, while shooting. How? Well, because you can do a lot in a 30-second exposure. Set the aperture to f/22 and ISO to 100 to allow for ...

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Turn water into art

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Anonymous, 01 October 2009 13:00

Practical Photography’s November Weekend project shows you how to shoot water ripples to create your very own unique wall art. This step-by-step is an additional technique for blending two or more of your water droplet shots together to make a larger symmetrical pattern. It’s not as difficult to achieve as it looks and the results can be very impressive. Scroll ...

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Get inspired this Autumn

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Anonymous, 29 September 2009 14:18

It's all to easy to leave your camera in the bag as the evenings draw in and the leaves start dropping from the trees, but there's a wealth of photographic oppourtunity awaiting you after the summer sun has gone, it's just a matter of knowing what to look for. Read on for our 5 expert's top tips for capturing the ...

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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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Interpolation

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Anonymous, 31 July 2009 11:18

Interpolation is another name given to the process of image resampling. There are five methods that can be used for calculating the best route for resizing an image – Nearest Neighbor, Bilinear, Bicubic, Bicubic Smoother and Bicubic Sharper. All the Interpolation options are found inside the Image Size Dialog box from the drop-down list. A close-up view of the options ...

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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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Step Interpolation

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Anonymous, 31 July 2009 11:07

Step Interpolation is a completely different way of increasing the size of your images. Rather than using one of the five Interpolation options from inside the Image Size Dialog box, the step interpolation method involves gradually increasing image size by small percentages. The percentage that’s usually settled for is 10%. Step Interpolation isn’t always the best means of interpolation, as ...

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