I’ve been reading After Capture magazine since the folks at Rangerfinder Magazine starting publishing it. It’s a good magazine with a lot of cool images and geez whiz advice on image manipulation. One of the things that I was really taken with were the High Dynamic Range Images. The basic idea is that you find a subject, anything you like really, and them make a series of bracketed exposures using a tripod. Go from slightly over exposed to slight under exposed. Then you can use the Merge to HDR feature in Photoshop or use one of the stand alone HDR…
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High Dynamic Range Images
In the good old days of film photography, you had to spin a lot of dials, adjust a lot settings, make sure you had the right speed film for the subject, and so on and so forth. A nice modern digital camera set to Auto will do all the work for you and capture near perfect images every time. But just using a digital camera to take pictures is missing a great deal of the fun. Dropping those images into Photoshop and applying a filter or two is much more interesting. One of my favorite magazines is called After Capture,…
Photoshop Actions by Kubota
Adobe Photoshop is an amazing bit of software. So amazing that most people never get past the rough surfaces to the really cool stuff hidden under all those tabs and drop-down menus. Among the many useful things are actions for Photoshop, which are just a series of steps that are saved to a file for later use. Adobe Photoshop lets you import other people’s actions as well as write your own. Writing your own Photoshop Actions is a good idea, as your taste in Plug-Ins and Filters may not be the same as everyone else’s. Of course, the core Photoshop…