Top Tips for Getting to Know Your Batteries

Thursday, 31st December, posted in Articles, 12 comments.

I reckon that the way you can tell a professional photographer from an enthusiast is the way they organise their batteries. (Ok I kid). But I did get an email from a photographer a few weeks ago that turned into a conversation about batteries. How do you organise them so that whilst on a assignment you know which are needing recharged? and which are fully charged?

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Merry Christmas Everyone

Friday, 25th December, posted in Thoughts, add a comment.

I just wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas from myself, Gillian, Greg and of course our resident model Jool’s. Thanks for visiting us on Christmas day. I hope you are having or maybe have had a great Christmas dinner. I am probably watching Doctor Who right now or playing with all the presents, Santa brought Jools. Enjoy your day. >

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Creating Borders with Filters and Masks

Monday, 21st December, posted in Videos, 5 comments.

In this screencast I show you how to create image borders with layers, masks and filters for the effect. This is a bit of long one, so get the popcorn out and I am really sorry its not in 3D… :) Avatar’s a cool movie isn’t it? Anyway I digress, I show you 2 ways to work with a border and these are a little different to my usual border and edges that I do for the foto edge fx.

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Creating a Floating Print with Photoshop

Monday, 14th December, posted in Videos, 14 comments.

I thought saying as we are heading towards the holiday season I thought it was time to do some techniques that you can have a play with whilst enjoying the Christmas break. Today I am going to show you how to create a floating border effect that is both non-destructive and very flexible to use with your photos.

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Is Paint Bucket the Forgotten Photoshop Tool?

Thursday, 10th December, posted in Videos, 3 comments.

Adobe Photoshop CS4 has so many tools that a lot of them get tucked away and forgotten. The Paint Bucket is one such tool and it now resides inside the button for the Gradient Tool. So the point of this screencast was to resurrect the poor old paint bucket and give it a bit of a new lease of life by combining it with a few of my favourite techniques.

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Protecting your Copyright with a Signature

Monday, 7th December, posted in Thoughts, 8 comments.

One set of actions that did not get a make-over recently was the Digital Watermark Actions Kit. Why, I hear you cry? Well its like this. You all have so many different digital cameras with different megapixels sizes, that its hard to keep up. So the easiest thing to do, is to teach you how to create your own digital watermark or copyright stamp…

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Creating Tribal Art Brushes with Photoshop

Thursday, 3rd December, posted in Videos, 4 comments.

In this screencast I will show you how to create a brush in Photoshop that has a unique tribal art design. Its a simple technique that will give you the ability to create a really cool look set of brushes for yourself. Plus to get you started you can download the three brushes I created for the video.

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