Category: Photoshop
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It’s Only Work If You Complain
And no-one will be listening anyway… My weekend’s work a little while ago was to fail. You fail by both narrow and wide margins. And then to analyse my failure correctly. Lest this start to sound like some Chinese communist self-criticism meeting, let me assure you I do not own a little red book. and…
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You Need Not Be Shy
About using whatever means your workflow possesses to make your art. I am not. Since I discovered that the digital process frees me from the one-look-forever circumstance of film photography, I have added a number of filters, plug-ins, processes, and presets to my equipment. I use them constantly, and undertake some of the most complex…
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Read The Catalogue
Then read the price list. Then read the shipping charges. Then read the currency exchange rate. If you still want the goods in the catalogue, make a list of why you need them, and why you cannot do what you want to do with the things you currently have. Then, if you still want, look…
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You’re not Supposed To Fix It In Photoshop
Presumably because that is not virtuous. But who amongst us can lay claim to entire virtue? Not I. When I started to shoot the burlesque dance lady in the studio on the Mardi Gras paper I thought I had a winner – deep blue costume and bright pink. But the thing looked anaemic on the…
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The Photographic Trap
And I don’t mean the better mousetrap and people beating a pathway to your door. If you kept the place cleaner you wouldn’t have rodents in the first place. No, I mean the trap of thinking that the photo you see is real, Or worse still…reality. We have long been accustomed to the fake photo.…
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One Click Away From Fame
If you are a photo editor of your own work you generally want your efforts to be well-received. Whether it is mild straightening and contrast adjustment or a full-on 8-hour Photoshop reconstruction, you want people to like it. They may not buy it, but at least you don’t want them to spit on it. This…
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Fujifilm To The Rescue
I regret and deplore the closing of Fujifilm Australia’s Perth office some years ago. It was a business decision from Sydney, and a bad one I daresay, and it deprived me of the advice of Justin Moriarty, the rep. He was very good with advice and made sure that I could cope with the goods.…
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El Dorado
The search for the legendary South American golden city of El Dorado ( and there were any number of searches ) took lives and treasure and time, and so far hasn’t paid off. Though Venezuela might be getting close… However, we sometimes stumble into it when we are taking photographs and doing our post processing.…
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The Plug-Out
I have been using a set of plug-in programs for a decade – initially on my simple Photoshop platform and lately on a more sophisticated one. The programs are quite marvellous – doing in one click what would take me hours to figure out were I left to concoct the recipes myself. They have proved…