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Oldies   but   Goodies   -   Vintage   restoration

4/1/2013

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Many of us like to work with old vintage images and they’re a great source for greeting card designs, but leaving a vintage photo or image as is and using it with all it’s faults does not usually make for a good greeting card. Cleaning up and improving spots, poor contrast, scratches and in general poor image quality does not mean you are losing the ‘vintage’ feel of the image and ...  Read Entire Article
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The   Visible   Horizon

3/11/2013

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First let’s talk about the horizon line in visual art.  If you’ve ever taken a beginner’s drawing class, one of the first things you’ll be taught when learning how to draw is to first establish your Horizon Line by drawing a faint horizontal line on the paper.

In photography, the subject of today’s discussion, the same theory applies when framing through the viewfinder. A Straight Horizon is one of the first things taught in a beginning photography class ...


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Blending   of   Elements

11/5/2012

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AFTER Blending ©Doreen Erhardt
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One of my favorite ways to create is to do so using many different bits and pieces of photographs to offer a visual image as a new derivative work.  Of course to do this, you must become a ‘master’ at removing the background from an element.  Though there are many tricks and ways to do this, the bottom line is unless the image you are ‘cutting out’ has crisp lines and a solid background in a color not in the section you wish to cutout …

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Totally   Retro

10/15/2012

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Definition from Reference.com:
“Retro  is a term used to describe, denote or classify culturally outdated or aged trends, modes, or fashions, from the overall postmodern past, but have since that time become functionally or superficially the norm once again. The use of “retro” style iconography and imagery interjected into American postmodern art, advertising, mass media, etc. has occurred from around the time of the U.S. industrial revolution to present day.” ...


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Clean    Up    Those    Photographs

9/10/2012

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We’ve chatted in the past about background removal, but some … in fact most photographs … need a bit of cleanup to make them worthy of the professional marketplace.  Sunspots, unwanted hot spots, background bits which are distracting and even unclean lens can leave marks on your finished photograph.
Remember the basic rule of thumb for photography: “If it doesn’t ADD to the overall image, it is distracting.” ...



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Don’t    Dodge    the    Subject

4/24/2012

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Introduction to Contrast in Monochromatic
Digital Photos by SunAtNight


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... Though I’m glad to be out of a chemical darkroom, those dodging and burning techniques are still quite valuable and critical to the digital photographer.  No matter our experience level, we all have photos that are taken ‘in the moment’ where we either could not modify the lighting, our position or offered no time to adjust the camera settings.  Often those images are just too far gone, but just as frequently in the digital darkroom of today, these images can be turned spectacular using a variety of techniques ...

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Selecting   Digital   Backgrounds

4/2/2012

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Last week we talked about Digital Background Removal and that sparked a request for Part 2 this week to chat about what characteristics to look for when choosing a replacement background for your image.  So I’ll pass on my thoughts in the hopes they may spark some great inspiration for your own imagery.

The first step is to identify the purpose of your final image ...


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Clean    Background    Removal

3/26/2012

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Removing an element from the background; no matter what you call it, can be done in a variety of ways; but ALL of them are time-consuming and take a tremendous amount of practice to get professional results.  This will be short and sweet since there is not a lot to say about this other than IF you are going to attempt this in your digital creations, then you MUST look out for the ‘artifacts’ which can be left behind when performing background removal leaving you with unprofessional results ...  Read Full Article & Get Links

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Artifacts  …  The    Facts

3/19/2012

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I thought it might be fun to further investigate the Definition of Artifacts and how it relates to those of us creating high-quality imagery.  So let’s start with the definition of Artifact in the context we are referring to ...

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A   Digital   Artist’s   Journey

3/5/2012

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The year was 1995, I was an owner of an art gallery with three other artists. Two were painters, one was a textile artist and then there was me; a photographer who was still developing film and prints in my own darkroom.  These partners decided to have a show titled ‘Faces’.  Their idea was to create HUGE faces to put out in the garden and in the windows.  I was at a loss . . .

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