Apparently, Adobe will limit upgrades to CS6 to only the owners of CS5 or 5.5. If you have an earlier version and you want to upgrade to CS6 you may want to look into finding an upgrade to your current product. The following passage from their site clearly states the policy: “With regards to upgrades, we are changing our policy for perpetual license customers. In order to qualify for upgrade pricing when CS6 releases, customers will need to be on the latest version of our software (either CS5 or CS5.5 editions).” Read more about this and a short window of opportunity to upgrade your current Photoshop to the latest with some discounts.
The Soft-Focus Effect
August 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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have written about the model photographs with electroluminescent skin with razor sharp eyes and eyelashes and made a presentation (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) on how to edit portraits for pleasing and plausible results. I have also challenged PSA to be more diligent on what they promote, implicitly or explicitly. Poor technique, when accepted by a large number of people can give the illusion of being right, or being a new “trend”. However, a close inspection of the photographs and what the master portrait editors, like David Cuerdon, do to edit their model photographs will make it abundantly clear that texture-free skin is a fallacy. Like its logical cousin, it may actually appear quite logical or acceptable in the absence of sound foundation logic, or sound photo editing workflow. One has to apply clear reasoning to avoid falling victim to fallacies, and use better tools to yield better photographs. To see some samples of this sort of portrait editing see the PSA exhibition acceptances, medal winners this year, last year, and quite likely next year. [Read more...]
Hallelujah! It’s About time!
July 27, 2011 By 3 Comments
An advertising watchdog group in Britain has banned two overly retouched L’Oreal ads featuring the actress and model, claiming that the digitally altered images are misleading, the Daily Mail reported.
The Advertising Standards Authority in the U.K. is demanding that the company pull a two-page magazine ad Roberts did for Lancome, one of L’Oreal’s makeup brands, claiming that the actress’ flawless skin is too good to be true.
A Great Resource For Photographers
June 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment
NAPP, National Association of Photoshop Professionals has been around for quite some time now. Its founder Scott Kelby and his cohorts, Matt Klaskowski, Dave Cross, and others publish a very fine magazine, Photoshop user, and offer online content in variety of formats.
I have been a NAPP subscriber for many years, and also joined the sister service KelbyTraning.com a few years back. I like the group not only because of the fine magazine and the NAPP Web site, not only because they bring varied programs to their members from shooting to outputting, but also because they bring unique programs like A Day With jay Maisel. I enjoy following these programs, that alone is worth the money. But I also want to support them by my membership so that they continue offering their rich resources to me and photography fans all around.
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Photoshop View Print Size
March 20, 2011 By 7 Comments
Photoshop has many tricks, but automatically adjusting for the actual screen ppi (pixels per inch) to display accurate print dimensions is not one of them. You need to train the old dog for this new trick. It is quite straight forward and from that point on, when you choose “View/Print Size” it will display the actual size. Of course large print sizes may not fit the screen but you will get a good sense of proportion.
This discrepancy has two sources. The first one is Adobe settings for units which uses 72 ppi for the screen resolution although [Read more...]
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