Posted on: December 30th, 2009 Photoshop Action

I just realized the greatness of Photoshop Actions, and the realization makes me feel GREAT!

Of course, deviantart has a huge collection of user-submitted PS actions, so head on over and check it out if you happened to have Photoshop. If not, there are also other actions and scripts for other well-known post processing software like GIMP.

This is by far the coolest thing I find for Photoshop, aside from some high grade plugins.

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Posted on: December 29th, 2009 Vibrance

Playing with the vibrancy action found at DigitalPhoton.

I was going through my watches on dA to do some visual learning, and realized that in fact, many pieces I like have very vibrant color and stronger contrast, which I think is a big part that I miss when I post process many of my images.

As an experiment, the above image shows the difference between my original PP (left) and my attempt using the PS Action.

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Posted on: December 28th, 2009 Digital Photography Backup Solution

Take a look at Epson’s offering, the P-7000 picture viewer.

So, with some understanding of what the prodcut offers, does any photographer I know uses any kind of backup solution for their on-the-spot shots? Or the CF card in the DSLR is the only copy there is until the shoot is over and you got a chance to transfer them onto your computer?

The later is my solution as of now, but Epson’s offer is really hard to ignore. I mean, we all know that backing up our images is very important because we don’t want to ever lose the shots we take, but lugging our laptops (even netbooks) around when doing shoots is troublesome and tedious, yet, until we upload the pictures to another device, our images are without copies and if the storage card is corrupted for some reason, the possibility of losing all the images on that card…it’s photographers’ nightmare.

Nevertheless, I think P-7000 is a very interesting and promising product, except the price is definitely a dealbreaker for a lot of people. Ah…if only I am rich.

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Posted on: December 27th, 2009 Saber

I think this is a very cool character to cosplay as, except the armor might be a little difficult to come across (if the cosplayer decides to go authentic, that is).

Anyone wants to do this?

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Posted on: December 26th, 2009 How to Instruct Your Model

Great info IMO. And this is just one of the many good info videos by crestock.com, so check out their photography blog for more great stuff.

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