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Someone asked me about a "Proof" photoshop action. I wrote one that can be downloaded here: www.allangengler.com/my_actions/
But in the spirit of "teach a man to fish" here's the how of it if you want to do it yourself.
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1. Create a blank document that's a fairly lorez photo something like 1024 x 768 or slightly smaller. Hit "d" making black the foreground color.
2. Using whatever font you'd like create a medium sized PROOF with the type tool. Click on the move tool and move it to the upper left hand corner.
3. Right click on that PROOF type layer and choose "create work path" and then delete the Type Layer.
YOUR ARE READY TO RECORD THE ACTION.
4. Go to the Actions Panel and click the triangular menu in the upper right and choose "New Set" and name it PROOF WATERMARK and go back to the same menu and choose "New Action".
A WARNING FROM NOW ON WHAT EVER YOU DO IS BEING RECORDED BY PHOTOSHOP, SO BE CAREFUL OF THOSE "UNDOS" AND "EXTRA CLICKS"
5. Now we should have a blank layer and the Path showing saying PROOF. If so go Back to that same Action Menu and choose "Insert Path"
6. Click the NEW LAYER button in the Layer's Panel or choose Layer > New > Layer from the menu.
7. Go to the Path's Panel and from it's menu choose "Fill Path," choose WHITE and set the Opacity to 100% -- Click OK. Now on Layer 1 in the Layer's Panel move Fill Opacity to 10%
8. Now in the Path's Panel again go to the menu and choose "Delete Path"
9. Now you have a choice here, but I suggest inserting a STOP by going to the Action's Panel and from the Menu Choose "Insert Stop" and write a message asking you to resize your type. I put: Use Command/Control + t to enter free transform, hold down the shift key and resize PROOF. Hit Return/Enter after resize, then Continue Action. Click OK
OR
You can just resize it now and not enter the STOP.
10. Let's continue. Go Select > All from the "Select" menu. Next go Layer > Align Layers to Selection > Vertical Centers ..... Do the Same for "Horizontal Centers" .....Now Go Select > Deselect.
11. Now with Layer 1 Still chosen go Layer > Layer Styles > Blending Options and check "Drop Shadow," "Bevel and Emboss" and "Contour" under bevel and emboss. Now you can play with each setting by clicking on the words if you want to, otherwise click OK.
12. Now, if you want to, you can go Layer > Flatten Image or you can leave the separate layer. If you choose to Flatten you can use the action in conjunction with Image Processor, under the Script menu, to put Proof on many, many photos.
OTHER OPTIONS: Do this action without the STOP on a High Rez photo for High Rez proofing.
here slideshow is on my website if you want to see more.
www.linenphotography.com/away.htm
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There's a dead tree trunk next to the cellar door here at Bergdalen. It is the home of a few hundred Firebugs. And they are a good indication of the arrival of Spring. This year they sent out this little guy to see if it was time to come out. He reported back that it was.
not the result I wanted, but the conditions were horrible. and it still worked. if you look closely, you can see the reflections of the stars in the water.
so, now I just have to wait for a good shot to come along.
The Thyme Cheese Bubble Loaf proofing in the pan after the "shaping" (I've never shaped a bread quite like this before...)
proof from stephanie's headshot session. not for public consumption; for review purposes only.
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School's Stand-up Professor delivers a "Speculative Talk" , truly "speculative" in a manner that the majority of the audience appreciated.
The power of fundamental physics exemplified by
the proof that 6>9 follows from Z2 graded Poincaré algebra invariance of our spacetime (by 180 deg rotation)..
This lasted whole 45 minutes, with 15 minutes left for discussion.
Photo by Pablo Gabolde, then a physics graduate student.
This was taken on my way to work one morning. I have an entire series from start to finish that shows this optical illusion taking place. Talk about being in the right place at the right time. Lakeland, Florida.
Monday Proof in concerto allo Slam Dunk Festival di Bellaria-Igea Marina foto di Andrea Ripamonti per www.rockon.it
Proof Pronghorn Levitate
This young female Pronghorn caught in the act clearly levitating above the county road. No wonder they are the fastest land animal in North America. They have been “clocked” at 61 miles per hour I’ve heard. I’ve seen them run next to me around 50 mph over uneven ground. Running smoother over than that my rig on the maintained county gravel road. Here I managed to catch her actually crossing that road in front of my rig.
Anticipating well known animal behavior is not rocket science. Pronghorn have often been seen having the option to run away from your truck back into the “fields” but run in front of your vehicle instead. Here I “banked” on that activity (clearly today “banked” doesn’t have the value it used to but I digress). Sure enough, I stop to aim the camera and wait….4,3,2,1 click.
Photographic Musings: Photography is all about balancing the amount of light coming into your camera.
Close to the camera High Speed Animals Running laterally to you are necessary to follow/ track. So you must be free handed typically. That is a learned skill. Keeping the critter in your eyepiece with a 2 foot long lens is like looking through a 2 foot long pipe. I can’t teach you that, but I can tell you that if you don’t have a lot of shutter speed, your going to get a blur as a 50mph thing blows past. I would hope you have 1/2000ths of a second or shorter. That’s one of three settings in manual mode to get this kind of image.
Second setting is F-stop, It’s always better to have lots of light with high speed work. Lower F-stop # =more light but it thins your “depth of focus field” (google that) You note the only thing in focus in the Pronghorn. A low F-stop number gives me more light to account/balance the light I lost
ISO, camera sensitivity… Final adjustment that you use to balance to actually get the right amount of light to get the exposure you desire. More ISO means more visual noise and grain on the image. Lower numbers like 100 give you the best grain but take away light from your camera. Higher numbers make it so the camera digitally enhances the light that does make it through the aperture (fstop) and the short exposure time.
Location: Bliss Dinosaur Ranch, Wyoming / Montana borderlands (Wyotana)
Title: Proof Pronghorn Levitate
Early morning reveals that I can pitch an unfamiliar tent in the dark and keep the mozzies out as well. It was the first time I've ever assembled one of these external frame types.
Coomalie Airfield, Merlin Magic fly in, Northern Territory.