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Infinite Backgrounds
Select, Cut And Paste It is All In The Digital Darkroom
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Steve Bedell  |  Mar 01, 2003  |  0 comments

Infinite Backgrounds

About 15 years ago I bought a front projection system for my studio. The way it works is something like this: You pop a slide into the projector and it shows up on the background screen. Put your subject in...

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The Digital Darkroom
How To Scan Large Pictures
Digital Darkroom
Darryl C. Nicholas  |  Feb 01, 2003  |  0 comments

The Darkroom

We use a flat-bed UMAX PowerLook III scanner for scanning reflective material. It has a maximum scan area of about 8.5x11.7". While that size handles a lot of what we need to scan, every now and then a client will bring in a much larger old picture that they...

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Is Your Computer Set Up For Digital Photography
How To Stop The Deault Demon From Making Your Pictures Blah
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David B. Brooks  |  Feb 01, 2003  |  0 comments

Is Your Computer Set Up For Digital Photography?

If "Steven" finally got to you and you have a new computer, is it ready for use as a digital darkroom? With rare exception the answer to that question is a resounding no. The reason...

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The Digital Darkroom
Making Quick Mask Selections
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Darryl C. Nicholas  |  Dec 01, 2002  |  0 comments

The Darkroom...
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B And W Negative Scanning
A Step By Step, Easy Way To Quality Images
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David B. Brooks  |  Sep 01, 2002  |  0 comments

Scanner software driver pre-scan tools have come a long way in the last few years, but scanning black and white silver-based film negatives has remained a neglected stepchild. This is not to say some scanners don't work OK with some black and white negative films. But if you want optimum quality with all...

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The Digital Darkroom
Making Drop Shadows
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Darryl C. Nicholas  |  Aug 01, 2002  |  0 comments

When taking a picture of an
object, the exact background is no longer as important as it once was
because we can now change it so easily in Photoshop. For example, #1 is
a picture I recently took of a vase that I was preparing to offer...

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The Digital Darkroom
Correcting Distortion In The Digital Darkroom
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Darryl C. Nicholas  |  Jun 01, 2002  |  0 comments

Remember in the old days how you used to tilt the easel when you made a print under the enlarger if you wanted to correct for some optical distortion? Well, there is a way to do something similar using Photoshop when you are working in the digital...

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Getting Skin Tones Right
Digital Portrait Techniques
Digital Darkroom, Portraiture
Jay Abend  |  Apr 01, 2002  |  0 comments

While it's clear to every serious photographer that digital cameras will eventually replace film as we know it, there's still cause for concern with the skin tone of digital portraits.

Unless...

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JPEG Compression Programs
Which Of Todays Top Graphics Programs Does The Best Job
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Chris Maher and Larry Berman  |  Mar 01, 2002  |  0 comments

The Internet offers photographers great opportunities to share their work with friends, family, and potential buyers. But getting your images in shape to be seen quickly and easily requires that you optimize and compress it into a JPEG format. JPEG compressed images are universally recognized by all...

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Mundane Imaging Tasks Made Easy
Navigating The Action Palette In Photoshop 6.0
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Eric Seeger  |  Feb 01, 2002  |  0 comments

Pop quiz: What's the keystroke to sharpen an image in Photoshop 6.0? If you said Crtl/Cmd+S you're wrong--that's the combination for Save. Don't start guessing wildly because this is a trick question. This elementary shortcut does...

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Package Printing
Many Options In Photoshop
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Darryl C. Nicholas  |  Dec 01, 2001  |  0 comments

For those of you who do pro or semi-pro shooting, you probably already know about package printing. It's when you send a negative to a lab and ask them to make up an order from it that would be something like (1) 8x10, (2) 5x7s, (2)...

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Digital In Black And White
Ink Jet Printing Problems And Solutions
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David B. Brooks  |  Dec 01, 2001  |  0 comments

The output device for most digital darkrooms has become the photo-realistic ink jet printer. The printers that are designed to produce high quality photographic image reproduction are primarily color printers. They can be used for a wider...

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Playing With Pixels
The Digital Darkroom, Changing The Way We Take And Make Pictures
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Rick Sammon  |  Oct 01, 2001  |  0 comments

One of the coolest things about digital imaging is that it has changed the way we take and make pictures. Big time!

I experience this almost every time I shoot. Knowing that an...

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Another Option
Dodging And Burning In With Photoshop
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Darryl C. Nicholas  |  Sep 01, 2001  |  0 comments

Back in the
old days when I spent most of my life in a conventional darkroom, I used
to do a fair amount of dodging and burning-in. For some strange reason
almost every picture needed some slight adjustments. As long as I was...

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Software Roundup 2001
New And Improved Tools For The Digital Photographer
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David B. Brooks  |  Jun 01, 2001  |  0 comments

Corel Print House 2000
Although there is a large selection of consumer entry-level photo applications for Windows, there are few off-the-shelf packages for the Mac. The Corel Print House 2000 is a welcome alternative. In fact, at...

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