Friday, August 10, 2007

Monday, August 06, 2007

TrustedReviews - Digital Photography Tutorial – Photo Printing


TrustedReviews - Digital Photography Tutorial – Photo Printing

With the popularity of digital cameras, more and more people are taking more and more photographs. In fact despite scare-mongering stories about "the end of history" and "the death of photography", the truth is that there are more photos being taken today than ever before. However most of those photos will never be seen by anyone except the person who took them, because hardly anyone prints their photos any more. This is very odd, because many people have home computers with photo-quality printers that are more than capable of producing first-class prints from almost any digital photograph. Printers are ludicrously cheap, to the point that when your printer runs out of ink it’s almost cheaper to throw it away and buy a new one than it is to buy more ink.
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Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Generating Fractals: A benchmark comparison of PDL and other Tools

A decent introduction to creating fractals with PDL. "Whether you are a professional or amateur scientist, engineer or mathematician, if you need to make numerical calculations and plots quickly and easily, then PDL (Perl Data Language) is certainly one of the best free software tools to use."

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Picture : Whitby Pier


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Whitby Pier 2007

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Thursday, July 26, 2007

Picture : Chicago Skyline Mono




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Edited online with Piknik


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Picture : Black Swan

Messing around with The Orton Effect.



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The Orton Effect

The Orton Effect is named after Michael Orton who first used the technique is a sandwich of two images, one in focus the other out of focus. Freeman Patterson and Andre Gallant have both used the technique successfully in their work as well.

This tutorial show you how to recreate this in Photoshop etc.

The Orton Effect - Digital Photography Tip of the Week at PCIN.net Update


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