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Ewen Bell’s Judging Comments (ICM) and helpful links.
Ewen broke the mould with his judging for our monthly competition (set subject ICM), turning it into a very educational presentation highlighting concepts that he illustrated using a selection of the entries. His presentation slides can be downloaded from https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/nai1n0ug2rui0qsmiuk7t/WCC-ICM-2024.pdf?rlkey=4rouxml3h3vh11x8fc3wlgnp6&dl=0 … Continue reading
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Adding a mist effect
Mist can enhance some images, and adding a misty effect in Photoshop is not difficult. Here is one approach, based on the method demonstrated by Sharon Prenton Jones at a WCC workshop, Jan 2024. In this work through I am … Continue reading
Posted in Advanced Edits, Artistic, compositing, composition, How-to, Photo resources, Post-Processing, Software
Tagged compositing, How To, masks, photoshop, software, techniques
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G’MIC
G’MIC, GREYC’s Magic for Image Computing is a full-featured open-source framework for digital image processing. It includes a wealth of image processing filters (about 600 at the time I write this), and is available as a stand alone command line … Continue reading
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Tagged basic edits, filter, photoshop, software
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Kaleidoscope effect
Repeating patterns catch the eye, and the Kaleidoscope effect certainly provides plenty of repeating patterns. Kaleidoscopes use angled mirrors to produce repeated patterns (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaleidoscope), but this effect is easily achieved also in software like Photoshop or GIMP. There are lots … Continue reading
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Tagged GIMP, How To, photoshop, software, techniques
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Geoff’s Photo Doodler
The notes below should help get you started using my “Photo Doodler” program. First there is some background on what got me started on this project, then I give some examples, and then some brief instructions. Programming credits are at … Continue reading
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Feathering
Feather. This does not refer to plumage of birds, but the fuzziness in a selection or mask or brush. If you will forgive the visual pun, the image right illustrates on the left panel a hard selection (low feathering) with … Continue reading
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Tagged glossary, masks, selection, software
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Exposure X6
Overview I haven’t used Exposure hands-on so the following comments are based on the Exposure website documentation (there is an extensive set of tutorials and videos) and reviews I found on the web. Exposure X6 is very similar to Lightroom … Continue reading
Capture One
Overview Capture One started life as software to support Phase One’s high-end digital cameras, in particular in tethered image capture situations, but is now available for most makes. It is a superb professional Raw image processor. It is feature rich, … Continue reading
Photopea – a free photoshop-like editor
Use it at https://www.photopea.com/ . This is an amazing project from a talented Czech Programer Ivan Kutskir. It comprises over 100,000 lines of code! This is an online program that you can run in your browser, with a photoshop-like interface … Continue reading
ON1 Photo Raw
Overview ON1 Photo RAW is a relative newcomer to the photo editing arena (currently designated ON1 Photo RAW 2021.5), but looks to be feature filled. It includes Digital asset management and a non-destructive, layered editing paradigm, incorporating many features of … Continue reading