(before)

(after processing/editing)

I’ve been snooping around for some DIYs on YouTube and found this great Photography DIY on how to edit photos in Photoshop.  I find out that it’s actually channel of Lilian, one of our bloggers on BagWhiz and Mattresszine.

Anyways, Lilian has some really great photography/Photoshop skills I didn’t know about, watch this video on how quickly/efficiently she processes/edits a photo.

I have been actually starting to study photography so this will help me a lot, definitely.

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You can also check out Lilian’s photography work here, very cool. (and her YouTUbe channel)

Great job Lilian, please send me your future works, I want to learn photography!

P.S. Interesting to note that I listen to same trance music as her…

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This just seems like the perfect software my mom would love, she is still using Photoshop skills I taught her 10 years ago.

How user friendly is LightBox? When you run the program you’re presented with a sidebar of common tasks like color balancing and red-eye removal. Mousing over each of them provides not only an explanation of the tool but sample pictures showing the results and every tool within the editor itself has mouse over tips. Once you’re actually editing your image you can easily—as seen in the screenshot above—divide the image to show how the alterations are effecting it compared to the original. The divided and side by side comparison feature is great for photo enhancements where your goal is to make the picture more appealing without giving it an unrealistic appearance. If you need additional functionality, there is a Plus version available for $19.95 which adds on features like masking and auto color correction. The basic version of LightBox is freeware, Windows only

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If you are looking for a new pen tablet for your photoshop work, Wacom Intuos4 Pen Tablet might not be a bad choice.  It comes in small, medium, large, and extra large sizes.  Depending on how big of a tablet you need, the Wacom Intuos4 Pen Tablets might be the perfect choice.

I did try out their previous versions and have to say these pen tablets are pretty good when it comes to quality and value for your money.  Of course, there’s other great pen tablets out there at an extra arm and a leg but this probably is the best value.

While it doesn’t compare to the Cintiq in terms of functionality, it also doesn’t carry the hefty price tag. For $230 to $790, Intuos4 users get a pad that features 2,048 pressure levels (with a starting pressure of one gram) and a software bundle that includes Color Efex Pro and any two of the following programs: Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 for the PC (or Elements 6 for the Mac),

PC Magazine’s recent review call it,

…if you’re used to drawing with traditional art materials, such as chalk or watercolors, you’ll find that the combination of Intuos4 and Painter comes remarkably close to that experience.

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I am not sure if Windows or Macs have free software to do this but if you have access to a Linux computer like me, you can get stuff done much faster using Image Magick, a free open-source image auto-resizer also used on many web-platform programs.

I assuming that you have installed Ubuntu Gutsy:

sudo apt-get install imagemagick

After ImageMagick installation, you can use mogrify. For example, I have a folder called “holidays” locate in “/home/user/photos/“. I have to change my path, make a thumbs folder and copy original images on “thumbs folder”. After that I can start image resizing process:

cd /home/user/photos/holidays
mkdir thumbs
cp /home/user/photos/holidays/* /home/user/photos/holidays/thumbs/
cd thumbs

mogrify -resize 640 *.jpg

Now I can see on “/home/user/photos/holidays/thumbs/” every my image file resized to 640 of width. If you want force resizing to a particulare size without mantaining original aspect ratio you could change mogrify options:

mogrify -resize 640×480! *.jpg

Good Job Man! I hope this howto will be useful for you.

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I’ve always been facinated with computer graphics even before the days of Photoshop.

Anyways, here’s a great way to convert any photo to a glowing neon one, this example shows you how to convert a girl to a neon girl.

In our Photoshop Tutorial, we will create a Glowing Neon Girl from scratch. Throughout this tutorial, you will simply learn how to make some cool Glowing Effects in Photoshop. This is quite a little long so patience is a virtue.Take a look at the Preview of our Final Image.

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If you guys don’t know about You Suck at Photoshop, you should.

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Check out this cool Photoshop DIY where the author shows you how to make lightning and super nova effects.

Apart from the lightning effects, this DIY would be great for playing around with different features of Photoshop.

in this tutorial i show you how to make a lightning effect in adobe photoshop and also a cool supernova effect. i ask that you please watch in fullscreen
also if you have any questions about this please messege me and ill get back to you

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