By Armand Niculescu on January 11, 2010
Avatar has captured the imagination of millions of people from around the globe. Creating a completely new world from scratch, one with hundreds of species of flora and fauna and breathtaking landscapes is a daunting task that Cameron completed with flying colors. Let’s see what companies and software were involved.
Posted in News | Tagged 3d, avatar, effects, photoshop, vfx
By Armand Niculescu on January 9, 2010
If you are a photographer and want to use the so-called Rule of Thirds in your compositions, here’s a neat trick to show it in Photoshop:
Posted in photography, photoshop, Tutorials | Tagged photography, photoshop, tutorial
By Armand Niculescu on October 2, 2009
Adobe presented at Photoshop World two pretty cool experiments that might be included in a future version of Photoshop.
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By Armand Niculescu on June 29, 2009
In this tutorial I will teach you how to edit in photo in Lightroom and Photoshop to dramatically alter its appearance and mood. We’ll change a broad daylight scene into a night-time one, lit by a street lamp. I’ll also take the opportunity to describe some non-destructive editing techniques in Photoshop.
Posted in Tutorials | Tagged lightroom, photography, photoshop, tutorial
By Armand Niculescu on May 26, 2009
Just in case you’re unfamiliar with the therm, HDRI stands for High Dynamic Range Imaging. As I’ve discussed before, a regular photo can’t capture the full range of lights and shadows that the human eye can see. Photographers have long learned to avoid high-contrast situations or to use them to create artistic effects. It all changed when Paul Devebec presented at SIGGRAPH 1997 a method for combining several images with different exposures into one single image with a much higher range of luminosity. To put things in perspective, a camera sensor can cope with contrast ranges on the order of 4000:1, while a scene of a room with an outside view in full sun (something our eyes see every day) has a dynamic range of 100,000:1.
Posted in photography, Reviews | Tagged hdr, photography, photoshop, picturenaut
By Armand Niculescu on May 13, 2009
Finding tools or remembering where is a button you need fast can be disturbing sometimes so I have selected 50 useful keyboard shortcuts to help you work faster.
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By Armand Niculescu on April 14, 2009
Following up on the offer for free Flex for unemployed developers, Adobe has quite a few other interesting promotions – Photoshop Elements 7 for $59.99 and $200 discount for Creative Suite 4 upgrade
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By Armand Niculescu on April 3, 2009
Photoshop can help you pick what color you like for your eyes. Here is a method that will take you no more than 1 minute and a total of 6 steps that you have to follow.
Posted in Tutorials | Tagged photoshop, tutorial, video
By Armand Niculescu on March 19, 2009
With what I have shown you in the tutorial you can do your own wallpaper, you can use it as in e-card, a poster, or even do a nice thing for your friends, they will appreciate it. Use your imagination to create different things you will see that now that you know how to create your own brush, expressing yourself through digital media won’t be that hard.
Posted in Tutorials | Tagged brushes, photoshop, tutorial, vector, video
By Armand Niculescu on March 18, 2009
When you’ll be moving to hard core photo editing the last thing you want to spend time on is searching for the brushes you need in the multitude of brushes you have loaded. You should get used to loading only the brushes you need, it will save you a lot of time and energy.
Posted in Tutorials | Tagged brushes, photoshop, tutorial, video