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A couple of days ago, Brian Auer posted a project on his blog where he invited people to use a photograph that he would supply and process it in Photoshop (or any other image editing software). The idea was to see how different people take an image and work on it.

 

 

 

Brian was kind enough to give us the option of starting from the original RAW file from his camera as long as we reminded ourselves time and time again that we did not own the photograph, but were only borrowing in for purposes of this project.

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A couple of days ago, Brian Auer posted a project on his blog where he invited people to use a photograph that he would supply and process it in Photoshop (or any other image editing software). The idea was to see how different people take and image and work on it....

Humans are such creatures of habit. Forever and a day I’ve been taking the “long way” to renaming layers in Photoshop. Why does one rename layers? Well…for starters…to help you remember a little more about either what action you performed on that layer…or what creative affect you applied on that layer. Too often we start out with just a duplicate layer and when we go back to a project and see a layer called “duplicate layer” it can be a challenge to quickly determine what you did on that layer.

There are multiple ways to rename layers…you can right click the layer on the layer palette and select properties, you can right click on the actual image and select properties to rename the layer (the active layer will be selected)…OR…and I just discovered this little short-cut…if you can click directly on the layer description in the layer palette…and you can edit / rename directly — a small but significant time saver in my book!

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The Sony DT 11-18mm f/4.5-5.6 (35mm equivalent: 16.5mm - 27mm) is a super wide zoom for Sony Alpha Digital SLR Camera features Aspherical lens elements for wide-angle accuracy, DT lens design for optimum performance, Internal Focusing System, Circular Aperture, ED glass elements for sharp and accurate colors.

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Ever tried to stitch together a series of images that you took into a panorama? Even with some of the stand alone tools that have been available over the years which can be clunky and difficult to use - with mixed results at times. Now Photoshop is able to automatically do it for you. This feature floored me. Automatic layer alignment and blending are at work here in this feature as well, and the new auto layer alignment features in CS3 are far-reaching and crop up again and again in different areas of the application. It's really one of the revolutionary things about this new version.All of the things that have made making panoramas a difficult task in the past are all done automatically. The primary among these being:

• Those times when you have to actually distort, rotate, skew or transform one of your elements because the perspective is screwy.
• Those times when the sun or lighting or a window made the white balance, color space or over all wash of brightness and contrast different from one image to the next.
• Actually finding and aligning those overlapping areas of consecutive elements.

Photoshop CS3 does these all for you and with surprisingly amazing results. It's not just about the typical panorama either... I saw a demo of someone standing too close to a building, and taking pictures zoomed all the way out, of the front door, windows and window-boxes, front brick walk way, tilting upward and taking

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Rainy Jakob gets all decked out t’ celebrate Talk Like A Pirate Day. Yaarrrrr!….’tis a bonny day indeed when yer offspring starts showing some Pirattitue!

One can almost read his wee mind saying "Heave to and prepare to hand over yer cookies ye scurvy dogs!"