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Understanding Shutter Speed
“This post on Understanding Shutter Speed, written by Hawaii photographer Natalie Norton is a follow up post to Moving Toward Manual: Understanding Aperture. The posts are being written as a beginner’s guide to gaining confidence in using manual camera settings.” Knowing your camera is very important and suggest you read this article from digital-photography-school.com if…
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High-Res watercolor brushes and textures
“Bittbox.com has got a set of killer high-res grungy watercolor brushes they are giving away, plus they are also giving away the actual textures they created the brushes from.” Download the Brushes here Download the Textures here
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Rendering a Striking Matchbox in Photoshop
“This tutorial consists of creating a digital illustration in Photoshop of a box of matches. We’ll be creating the matchbox cover design, the striker on the matchbox from a pattern, and placing the cardboard texture on the box. We’ll also create the matches and align everything into a 3D perspective.” A really impressive tutorial from…
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5 High Resolution Grunge Textures
Today Im giving away 5 photographs that I shot 2 weeks ago at an abandoned military location here in Iceland. The images are all high resolution 300dpi and measuring over 3000×2000 pixels. These images may be used for personal and commercial projects. I do however ask that you do not redistribute these images via your…
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Extreme macro photography trick (video)
Don’t have a real macro lens but want to get really close? Grab a lens in the 100mm range and also your 50mm standard lens and stack them together for a 1:1 magnification. Or try different lens combinations to get in even closer. quick video 4, extreme macro photography trick from Jim Talkington on Vimeo.
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Old book textures by Bittbox.com
“I went to a little book store over the weekend that you can’t even find on Google Maps, bought a book that is about 50 yrs old, dissected it (literally), and scanned all the parts. It took a while, but I have a very cool free high resolution texture pack for everyone to download”. I’ve…
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Photoshop Brushes – Fractals by ekamanganese
“This is the second set of fractal brushes I made for Photoshop, the brushes are a higher resolution this time. The same licensing rules apply as the last set i made. Let me know if you use them, I’d love to see some of the works made using these.” An excellent Photoshop brush-set by ekamanganese.Download…
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Photography – Seeing the Possibilities
“One of the hardest thing for me when I was new to lighting, was seeing the possibilities in a location. When I first started in photography, I was lucky to have worked with a very talented photographer in Houston, TX. When I went to work for Joe, I had never been in a studio before,…
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An Introduction to Digital Photography: Ten Ways to Improve Your Skills
“The advent of high quality and inexpensive digital cameras has made it easier than ever to learn the basics of photography. The immediate feedback you get by being able to preview your images (via the LCD screen) in relationship to your exposure settings is invaluable. In the film days (not that long ago!), photographers had…
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Using Ink Drops in Your Digital Compositions – tutorial
We all love Photoshop and its effects, but sometimes it’s great to get your hands dirty when creating elements for your graphics. Ink drops can add a creative and energetic element to your designs. This tutorial demonstrates techniques to creatively work ink drops into your compositions. This tutorial by PSDtuts.com is a great example on…
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PSDTuts Photoshop Video Channel
“When it comes to learning, everyone has their own preference, whether it’s through images, words or … by watching! That’s why I’m happy to announce that we’ve opened a Photoshop Video Channel at the very cool Vimeo video site for anyone and everyone to contribute to!” If you prefer watching videos rather than reading tutorials,…
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Create a textured background image
“A tutorial by Elliot Jay Stocks: It seems that a fair amount of people want to know how I create background images like the one on this site. Well, the lovely chaps at .net magazine have given me permission to re-publish the tutorials I write for the mag on elliotjaystocks.com, so, from issue #168, here’s…
