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I had some fun with this one and learned some Photoshop tricks while I was doing it. As soon as I get another boarder staying here I'm going back to the coast. Just seems like there's just a lot of cool adjustments I can do to coastal shots.
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PSA 2019 I scanned this photo into the computer two years ago and posted it on Flickr. With the new software Topaz introduced which turns jpegs into raw files, I wanted to try it. I was not sure a scanned image would work, but I saw nice improvement, although will never be perfect! If you have old images you would like to try, Topaz has a free 30 day trial...lol and I don’t get a referral fee :-).
Legend says that Atlantis city was built by Poseidon, god of sea when he fell in love with a mortal woman Cleito. He made this city on top of a nearby hill and named it Atlantis. It is believed that he walked through these islands until he reached the biggest of them all- Atlantis and found it to be inhabited by people more beautiful and intelligent than rest of the world. It is here he first saw his future wife and fell in love with her.
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Example of use of TOPAZ AI SHARPEN
A Chiffchaff taking off
Un pouillot veloce qui s'envole
It's impossible to recover a movement blur with a sharpening filter : a sharpening filter will only add noise in this case but it will never recover details.
TOPAZ AI SHARPEN includes a new function called STABILIZE that is different from a simple sharpening filter. It tries to find a movement on the photo and to cancel it. That's why sometimes there are small artifacts on the opposite side of the movement, but it is really easy to deal with them with GIMP or photoshop.
To conclude : this tool deserves a try as it is free for 30 days.
It is very usefull for animals in movement (birds in flight, animals running ...), but it can manage movement of the photographer too.
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Paradise Landscapes Serie
What a beautiful scenery!!!
Illustration/Art
Image-editing
Lightweight HDR editing
Software: Pixlr; Windows Paint 3D; Snapseed
Edits made to my original photos
Edições feitas em minhas fotos originais
Jericoacoara
Ceará, Brasil
Depending on which statistical software your using, this is about my 2000th shot on flickr so time to re-work an old favourite!
Digital Art - Image-editing
Double Exposure
Effects - Color - Texture
Software: Windows Paint 3D; Pixlr; PicsArt Photo Studio
Edits made to my original photos.
Edições feitas em minhas fotos originais com
uso de adesivos públicos
Image specially created for
Art Week Gallery Group
29 May to 4 June our theme is:
~~~ Recreating Asia ~~~
Brasília, Brasil
This has been hiding in the archives for some time, some new software testing just brought it to the surface for me. I hope you enjoy it.
I am still learning to use my new raya pro software and digged out this image from HK i made 2015. There is a very bright portion of the sky on top of the image but it was not possible to use a filter to darken that part because there is no filter with such a form.
Therefore i originally made three bracketed images (-2EV, 0, +2EV) and merged them with Photomatix for my first edit.
Now i used the Raya Pro software for my second edit and got a much more natural looking result where the colours and saturation are much closer to the original.
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Ericpol Software Pool
Lodz, Poland
designed by HORIZONE Studio
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Ericpol Software Pool
Lodz, Poland
designed by HORIZONE Studio
more pics: blog.sotiriouphotography.com/index.php/ericpol-software-p...
This is the rear entrance to an old office building on 6th street here in Austin, Texas. Probably built around 1860 or so. I took it this last weekend while down at the Pecan street festival. There weren't any really great shots from the festival but I was able to get some cool shot from town.
Phew! Here we are, already humpday..;))
The Distillery District is a commercial and residential district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Located east of downtown, it contains numerous cafés, restaurants, and shops housed within heritage buildings of the former Gooderham and Worts Distillery. The 13 acres (5.3 ha) district comprises more than forty heritage buildings and ten streets, and is the largest collection of Victorian-era industrial architecture in North America. The district was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1988. [Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distillery_District]
Naar aanleiding van een nieuwe curcus van Photofacts over Nik-software heb ik dit weekend de nieuwe Nik collection software gekocht. Onderdeel daarvan is Silver Efex Pro het ultieme software voor b&w bewerkingen. Deze foto vond ik bijzonder goed geschikt voor b&w!
Zie ook mijn : B&W set.
© 2015 Wim Boon
Please do not use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my permission.
Some software experts posed with me for a group portrait a couple months ago.
Top (L to R) is Christina, Lisa, Kandi, Cristy, and Jane.
Lower (L to R) is me and Jenna.
The concept was to publicly display some favorite software: real or faux.
I, for one, was initially surprised at the number of software experts in my collection of friends. In retrospect - maybe that should not be surprising.
After all, arguing with any one of us expert women is like reading a software license agreement...
...in the end, you ignore it all and click "I agree".
Resistance is futile.
Enjoy
Nora
Photo and detailing by Cassandra Storm
Thank you for commenting and faving my photos :-)
My Website: www.zeitfaenger.at
Creative Commons License: Attribution 3.0 Unported
This isn’t an upload to talk about the image above, it’s more to talk about the software that was used to process it.
I’m very much a lightroom user, especially on my desktop computer, I’m a bit more flexible if using my iPad, but even there I use lightroom mobile a lot of the time.
There is always talk online about software alternatives to lightroom, one company that makes an alternative is Skylum and their Luminar software, you may or may not have heard of them.
I’ve read bits and pieces online about Luminar and a lot of people seem to like it as an alternative to lightroom, but I’ve never taken it much further than that.
Fortunately I also like getting things for free and reading this months Digital camera magazine I realised you could get Luminar 3 for free, so that’s what I did and now I have a fully functioning copy of Luminar to use for as long as I like. I haven’t had chance to fully get used to it yet, my first thoughts are that lightroom is better, but that’s probably because I’m used to Lightroom and have been using it a long time, I’m sure when I use Luminar 3 more I will get more used to it.
So as most people don’t buy photography magazines and may not have seen this offer I thought I’d share the details here and if you’d like to have a free copy of Luminar 3 yourself then you can, it’s quite a simple process, it is only for windows and macs though, not iPads, tablets or your phone.
So here is the address you need to put in your browser address bar, don’t put it in google or any other search engine, it needs to go in the address bar at the top of your browser. You will get an email sent to you with a link to the software download and an activation code and that’s pretty much it. There isn’t anything dodgy about it, it’s a proper legal offer and the company behind the software is a respected company but if your unsure just put Luminar 3 into google and do a bit of research.
This is what you put in browser address bar,
Skylum.com/dcw-Luminar
Affinity by Canva: First Impressions
Credit: Giuseppe Donatiello
I spent half an hour learning/evaluating Affinity by Canva.
It's not an intuitive software, especially for those who aren't very experienced with editing, but it quickly makes you realize it's not one of those toy apps. Affinity is powerful, however, and includes a wealth of editing and graphics tools on par with more well-known and very expensive software.
It's not a product for astrophotography, so its value can be best demonstrated by its performance on non-ordinary images.
I limited myself to the Pixel section, i.e., photo editing, and after some testing, I ventured into processing a raw TIFF image of M42 (box 1), a subject rich in nuances, tones, and a myriad of details.
Even with the basic settings (box 2), the result is very satisfying. However, it's by exploring the advanced tools that I discover extremely useful applications for astrophotography, such as generating false-color images (box 3) and applying powerful and incredibly simple deconvolutional algorithms.
The use of deep learning in many tools is all too evident, and it's important/recommended not to get too carried away. The experienced user will know how much to use and, above all, when to stop to avoid entering the minefield of overprocessing, which is unfortunately widespread, where artifacts are considered objective details.
For software that has become free, can you expect more?
M42 taken with 127EDmm f/9
Today I missed the sunrise at Ocean Reef Park on Singer Island but I was able to get a nice shot at Ocean Reef Park with these coconut trees. HDR image created in Photomatix Pro and Topaz software.
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Taken from Savannah Skies Observatory using an SBIG STL-6303 camera and 33-cm RCOS telescope on a Software Bisque PME Mount.
For "Get Pushed" round 17, I was paired with the young and so very talented Rachel, aka "Girl in Sneakers". Check out her response to my push...it's amazing! She challenged me to create an image which tells a story. She gave me examples of themes such as: vision; fate; destiny; love; sadness; hope; and redemption, to go by. Also, the challenge required using a road as a backdrop, and to incorporate 3 of these 6 items she listed: a clock; feet (bare or with shoes); 3 books; eyeglasses; or a person (not looking at the camera); a photo of someone you love (in a frame). What an interesting and fantastic challenge!
So I pondered the possibilities for a while and admittedly was stumped. Eventually I decided to just move forward without so much of a plan, to go out on a photoshoot, 'wing it' and see what I came up with. The shot of me running is where I started, and then I built the image from there, out of several other images I snapped. My concept is about time, and how there never seems to be enough of it. Therefore, I'm always trying to catch up. The crooked clock is for my warped sense of time; the turtles for the speed I seem to be at; my dog Moxie who is always watching and waiting for me to play with her or take her for a walk; the castle is about high hopes and dreams; the moon coming up shows the day is nearly over but also to always reach for it; and last but not least, the sunflower and the butterfly to remind me that no matter what, its all going to be okay and to just simply go along & be happy! :)
I don't use Photoshop very much, as Lightroom is my software of choice, so the collage techniques used here were a learn 'by the seat of your pants' type of thing. It's getting more familiar each time I use the program but I know there's so much yet to figure out. For a more realistic appearance, I tried creating more shadow effects but going as dark as I really needed to -made the shadows look too black and fake. Most of the hard shadows on the road are part of the original shot. After taking it through Photoshop, I played around with it in Nik Software's Color Efex Pro, applying a few different filters. Then back to Photoshop to subtly apply 3 different Kim Klassen texture layers. Fun!
Thanks for the push, Rachel! :)
Using Topaz Noise Adjust 6 for the first time.
This shot of a Beach Staggerwing Replica was very noise on the underside of the aircraft. Not a very good capture but a great candidate for the test.
Giving Nik Software HDR efex Pro 2 a test run. I'm not big into HDR, but sometimes it's just kinda necessary (in small amounts). Now that I've got an awesome tripod of awesomeness, it's time I learned to embrace it.
Also thinking it might be time to leave my beloved CNX2. I love it. I wish they would upgrade it and fix all the problems with it and maybe give us a few more features, but it's been YEARS since NX2 was released, there's been no news from nik software of any intention of upgrading it, and their newest versions of the plug-ins aren't even compatible with NX..... sigh....
Testing CS6 with the nik software plug-ins now to see if I can make it close enough to NX2 to convince myself to make the switch.
"Economics is on the side of humanity now."
– Isaac Asimov, in "The Currents of Space" (1952).
"Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings."
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Kavanagh: A Tale"(1849), Chapter XIII.
"The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say."
– Ramsey Clark