Photography

A Monitor for Every Budget – What Monitor for Photography and Design?

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Once again, I found an excuse to upgrade my monitor and so went on the hunt for the best design appropriate monitors. A while back I did another search and came up with the list of monitors for design.
I went for the HP w2558hc in the end. Great monitor and I can’t recommend it enough. [...]


Give Old Photos A Punchy Stylistic Feel – Photoshop Tutorial – with Video

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I found a number of old photos and after scanning them in – they had a grainy finish and had lost the punch and impact they once had. So I devised this little process to give them their punch back! Hopefully its of use to yourself. You can follow along with the screenshots or just [...]


Turn A Boring Photo Into An Emotive Portrait – Photoshop Tutorial – with video

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This is a fairly ‘intermediate’ tutorial, although most beginners will be able to follow along with the video. It’s a neat little tutorial packed full of lots of little gems and tricks which we use in order to arrive the result; which is a much more stylistic portrait, that’s a lot more emotive and also [...]


20 Wonderful Photos of London Attractions

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As a London dweller, I am in love with my city! Though I would share some images of the one and only city, London!


Amazing Panorama’s – Will Pearson

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Hi all, whilst trawling the web in the late hours, I came across Will Pearson’s website. His work is simply… breathtaking..
View his portfolio here: http://www.willpearson.co.uk/portfolio_cityscapes.php

Will Pearson is a professional panoramic photographer living in London and working worldwide. His panoramic photography and virtual tours have been showcased in the press, and the panoramas have been [...]


5 Amazing Photo Manipulations & Digital Art (deviantArt)

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1) Water Goddess by Sugargrl14

2) Smog by alexiuss

3) Vertige I by Noistar

4) Revolution by Husam-Elfaki

5) Heart Of A Dragon by videa


Going to Print Tip – Photography

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Morning All,
I recently got some of my photographs printed at A1 size ready for sale for the very first time. At the printers, I was lucky enough to catch some advice from some more experienced photographers who were printing their work, involving post-processing images ready for print.
Add Noise – 5%
- Filter- Noise – Add [...]


How to Calibrate Your Screen/Monitor for free

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Whilst surfing the web after buying my new Samsung T220 monitor, I was looking for a way to calibrate, as out of the box it was glaringly bright – great for movies etc – poor for design work. What I ran into was Supercal. Is a great tool, and after running a few test priints [...]