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Photoshop

Photoshop

A Different Way of Seeing

March 2, 2012 by A. Cemal Ekin

At a recent PSRI meeting, the guest speaker Andre Gallant presented several different techniques he used to create some …

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Photoshop Upgrade Restrictions

Adobe Changes Perpetual Upgrade Policy

November 17, 2011 by A. Cemal Ekin

Apparently, Adobe will limit upgrades to CS6 to only the owners of CS5 or 5.5. If you have an earlier version and you …

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Soft-Focus Effect

The Soft-Focus Effect

August 25, 2011 by A. Cemal Ekin

I have written about the model photographs with electroluminescent skin with razor sharp eyes and eyelashes and made a …

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Lancome Ad Featuring Julia Roberts

Hallelujah! It’s About time!

July 27, 2011 by A. Cemal Ekin

An advertising watchdog group in Britain has banned two overly retouched L’Oreal ads featuring the actress and …

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A Resource For Photographers

June 26, 2011 by A. Cemal Ekin

NAPP, the National Association of Photoshop Professionals has been around for quite some time now. Its founder Scott …

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Photoshop View Accurate Print Size

March 20, 2011 by A. Cemal Ekin

See the November 2014 addendum at the end if your version is missing this feature Photoshop has many tricks, but …

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Smart Publishing with MagCloud Part 2

February 25, 2011 by A. Cemal Ekin

This is part 2 of a 2-part series on publishing magazines at MagCloud. If you have not read part 1 please review that …

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Smart Publishing with MagCloud Part 1

February 24, 2011 by A. Cemal Ekin

This is going to be a two-part series. Before getting into the second part, I strongly recommend that you read and study …

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Corrected with 1-click

A New Use for X-Rite Passport ColorChecker

January 21, 2011 by A. Cemal Ekin

X-Rite Passport ColorChecker has been helping me for a while now and I am very pleased with its performance as a color …

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From “Scene” to “Seen”

September 21, 2010 by A. Cemal Ekin

Digital photography has many more user-controllable variables compared to the film. A good understanding of the …

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Photoshop Is a Girl’s Best Friend

July 15, 2010 by A. Cemal Ekin

You may or may not have made it to my presentation at the NECCC 2010 conference in Amherst. The presentation titled as …

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X-Rite ColorMunki Photo

Munki See, Munki Do: Display Calibration

July 4, 2010 by A. Cemal Ekin

I am amazed that many photographers, far too many of them work on a monitor with no calibration, no profiling and get …

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Free Software

May 5, 2010 by A. Cemal Ekin

One of the leading add-on software makers, onOne Software, has made some of their products available at no charge. If …

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Photoshop CS5

March 27, 2010 by A. Cemal Ekin

With the blessing of Adobe, all testers are allowed to show Photoshop CS5 processed images. However, I am not yet …

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Adobe Creative Suite 5 Around the Corner

March 25, 2010 by A. Cemal Ekin

I have been one of the beta testers for Photoshop CS5. Although I cannot speak of its feature set because of the …

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Photographic Printing Workflow

February 23, 2010 by A. Cemal Ekin

I gave a presentation at the Photographic Society of Rhode Island, PSRI, on producing quality prints using repeatable …

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Photoshop Is 20 Today

February 19, 2010 by A. Cemal Ekin

The ubiquitous Photoshop started as someone’s doctoral work. With a little luck, a confluence of events, and …

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Cabbage

Cabbage

February 14, 2010 by A. Cemal Ekin

Some see photography as “finding beautiful things and capturing them”. I see it differently as “seeing …

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Sharpening Workshop

January 10, 2010 by A. Cemal Ekin

I ran a workshop on January 3, 2010, for the members of PSRI. The main purpose was to explore the sharpening strategies …

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Adobe Air and Application Install Problems

December 15, 2009 by A. Cemal Ekin

I have written several posts on Adobe CS4 installation problems and how I finally managed to install the parts that I …

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HDR Imaging

October 19, 2009 by A. Cemal Ekin

HDR Imaging has become quite popular. For some, it represents a novelty; for others, creative process; and to me, …

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Eggsperiment

August 20, 2009 by A. Cemal Ekin

Eggs are the specialty of my friend Nermin Kura. A ceramicist, Nermin makes vessels inspired by eggs and photographs …

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More Calla Studies

April 27, 2009 by A. Cemal Ekin

I took more photographs of a couple of calla lily blossoms. I wanted to explore their shape and form. All shooting by a …

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Calla Studies in Color and Monochrome

April 20, 2009 by A. Cemal Ekin

This afternoon Jan and I took photographs of a single calla flower. Setup: Canon 5D Canon 100mm Macro Natural light …

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