Translated literally, Ekki Múkk is Icelandic for “no seagulls.” Colloquially, it means “not a peep” or “not a sound” or, as I’m about to use it, “no noise.” Night time and northern lights shoots are full of possibilities, and one of these is noisy pictures, especially with older digital cameras like my Nikon D200 or […]
Focus blending in Photoshop CS5
Similar in purpose to the Helicon Focus program, Photoshop CS 5 is capable of taking several images of the same shot, each focused at a different point, and blending them to create a single shot with everything in focus. Theoretically. It usually works pretty well, or at least gives you a good starting point to […]
Exerting greater control with masking in Photoshop
With layer masks in Photoshop, any changes you make to the layer to which the mask is attached will be controlled by the mask: black will conceal and white will reveal. And gray? Well, shades of gray apply the mask at a percentage that corresponds to the level of gray. In other words, as black […]
So you say you want a resolution? Well, you know…
Resolution is probably the thing that gets folks confused the most, especially when it comes to printing. First off, there are two different kinds of resolution when it comes to printing. There is print resolution and printer resolution. I’ll deal with printer resolution first so we can dismiss it. Printer resolution is the resolution the […]
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