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On Photorealism
American photorealist Audrey Flack has once said and I quote, “There is an instinct for realism, a powerful drive to reproduce oneself. The fascination of photorealistic paintings lies partly in their apparent replication of life, but these are not merely replications. These paintings are often out of life scale, varying from over life-size to under life-size, from brilliant, heightened color to pale, undertone hues."

Flack’s thoughts sum up what Photorealism is all about. Known as a pain ...
Author: Nashville
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Photoshop's Got a New Plug In: Eye Candy 5 Nature
There's a new plug-in in town.

Remember the Alien Skin filters series? The same developers were the ones who made a blockbuster out of the XenoFex and Eye Candy 4000. Now the latest in the series of Alien Skin, Eye Candy 5: Nature is a set of 10 plug-in filters for Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Jasc Paint Shop Pro and Macromedia Fireworks.

Eye Candy 5: Nature comes in the latest package that simulates a variety of nature's phenomena such as fire, smoke, rust, snow, ic ...
Author: Granny's Mettle
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PHOTOREALISM WITH BERT MONROY
Do you find it hard to distinguish between a real photo and a digital image?

Bert Monroy, one of the pioneers of digital art who created many software products such as Photoshop, ImageStudio and PixelPaint, introduces another break through in computer graphics, Adobe Photoshop’s “Photorealism”.

From the word itself you can define photorealism as something that is realized in photos. Imagine yourself in Atlantis, draw the scene and make it look like a picture. Think it’s impossible ...
Author: Blur Lorena
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Can It Get Any More Digital?
Everyone seems to be talking about digital photography because it’s fun, fast and less costly than we might think. It’s almost everywhere – in printed materials, in the news, and on the net. What makes digital photography a hit? One, digital takes the fear out of photography because it lets us take as many pictures as we want. Two, we can see right away if we got our desired image and delete the pictures we don’t like. Three, we can upload and share those pictures with our loved ones using a com ...
Author: Nash Ville
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Digitalize It! : (Modification of images with tools such as Adobe CS and Corel)
Then it was a choice among crayons, paints and palettes for an artist and designer to create art. It was a box of crayons that make one happy designer during his early years of formation.

Nowadays, designing has gone to the new age of advanced technology that utilizes computers and programming. As a designer used to handling tangible products such as the ever reliable crayons, computer technology is oftentimes scary and heart palpitating. With all that computer code and HTML tags and sty ...
Author: Granny's Mettle
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Top 5 Beginner Photo Editors for Windows
Are you looking for a good photo editing program for your digital photos? A good photo editing program should offer you good image editing features at a reasonable price. For digital photography enthusiasts, good image editing features include red-eye removal, noise removal and other photo enhancement options. I’ve personally tried out many of such programs myself and have compiled a list of the top 5 beginner photo editors for Windows. Let’s have a look at that list …

Adobe Photoshop Ele ...
Author: Gary Hendricks
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Photo Software for Your Digital Images
If you’re just starting out in digital photography, you may be worrying a lot about which digital camera to get. While that is important, do remember that there is another element – image editing. After digital photos are taken, they can (and should) be cleaned up using an image editing program. In this article, we’ll take a look at the various types of photo software available in the market.

Beginner Photo Editing Software
If you’re new to editing digital photos and images, a basic ph ...
Author: Gary Hendricks
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How to Organize Your Digital Photos
If you’re like me, you may have taken tons and tons of digital photos with your trusty digital camera, but never took the time to organize them. It’s certainly not a good idea to have thousands of photos lying in your hard drive totally disorganized. For one thing, it’s going to be very tough to find a specific photo for viewing purposes.

So what can you do to put those photos into some semblance of order? Well, this article will show you how, so read on. We’ll assume Adobe Photoshop Albu ...
Author: Gary Hendricks
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Digital Photography, Is It Right For You?
Lately, people have been asking me the same question over and over, "Should I buy a digital camera?" And for everyone that asks, I have the perfect answer. Maybe.

There are many factors that go into the decision about going digital, not the least being whether you are a professional or amateur photographer. You need to ask yourself how you will use your photographs. Will they be for your website, magazine articles, stock agencies, advertising or something else? You then have to do some re ...
Author: Jeff Colburn
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How to Achieve a Perfect Color Scheme
Your choice of colors reflects you and your business. Color expresses intention, emotion and character. You must be cautious when choosing your color scheme because it will reflect the message you want to convey to the viewers. Wrong choice of the same may spell danger and loss on your part. Color plays a pivotal role in a website's impact, thus, it must be considered warily.

There is a way to have an effective – actually a perfect color scheme. You can use Adobe PhotoShop however, this ...
Author: Maricon Williams
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Adobe Photoshop levels-Turn junk into gold by clicking a button
There is no doubt in my mind; Adobe Photoshop is the greatest Photo editing program in the world. Whether you are a novice or an expert Photoshop is the program for you. Photoshop is used by my children and by the movie making industry. So what exactly can I do with Photoshop? The better question is what can’t you do with Photoshop?

Today I would like to talk about the simple little function in Photoshop called ‘Levels’, the first step to improving the appearance of a photograph. There ar ...
Author: Robert Kennedy
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Intimate glimpses the art of Steven Ricks
The works of Steven Ricks make us part of an intimate moment of two people loving each other. We don't get to see the whole scene, we have to continue the visual story ourselves. Make it complete with our own fantasy's and experiences.

You see body parts teasing each other but the the act of sex is never shown. Intimate glimpses of the body that during the act of sex we, the participants, don't get to see. The sights that only one partner might have the pleasure to see. The usage of warm ...
Author: Hans Frontosa
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Printing a Panorama at Home
When you choose to print your photo panorama-style yourself, here are a few suggestions to help you:

You can use paper larger than your printer specs

The size of the paper depends on the size of the slot in the printer. For most home printers, this slot is limited to either the letter size width or slightly larger. Nevertheless, you have to take note that the letter size length is not limited though.

What one woman did was to buy a paper large than the standard size specifi ...
Author: Granny's Mettle
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Product Review: Paint Shop Pro
Many years ago I needed to create some graphics. Nothing fancy,
just some images for documentation at work. I had used several
graphics programs in the past, none of which really did the job
that I needed. I wanted a simple interface, a lot of power, and
most important of all, I didn't want to spend half the day
waiting for the graphics program to catch up to me.

I considered Adobe Photoshop, but soon realized it was priced
way over my budget. So I kept looking, an ...
Author: Richard Lowe
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Microsoft's Licensing Model (sigh)
One of my biggest, most important responsibilities in my day job is ensuring
that we have purchased all of the software licenses that we require. It's
my job to ensure that we are 100% legal at all times - which fulfills one of
our corporate goals to be a completely ethical company.

Most companies make it very simply for me and my staff. If I want to license
Norton Antivirus, all I need to do is count the number of machines on which
the product is to be installed, write up ...
Author: Richard Lowe
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Business Opportunity for Graphic Designers
Business Opportunity for Graphic Designers
by Mohd Fairuz

As a graphic designer, you are sitting on a gold mine. You
have a skill other people do not have, and you can use that
skill to earn a good living.

But, it's very sad to see most experts in graphic design
work for others.

It's time for a change!

Let me tell you a secret.

With the power of Internet, you can start an online
business, and make as much money as you can, without having
to qu ...
Author: Mohd Fairuz
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The Psychology of Color in Web Design
Persons engaged in website design, here’s a scoop for you! Would you just like to know that by understanding the basics of cognitive psychology around color and patterns, we could further improve our Web design!

Designing a Web site does not only concentrate on making web pages of a certain site interesting and impressive. This skill and talent must also be used to ensure the user-friendliness of a certain site and must strive to reach the widest range of users possible.

So what’s ...
Author: Lala C. Ballatan
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Make your site quick to load!
The time it takes to load your site can make or break a visitor’s first impression of your site. If your site takes too long to load, the visitor will click “Stop” or “Back” and leave your web site. If you are a business and offering people important information, it is critical to have a nice design, with a quick load time.

You may want to check out the load time of your page, to indeed see if your site loads quick enough for the average user. A great site tool can be found at
http:// ...
Author: Michael Kralj
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Slow Loading Pages
One of the biggest problems you will encounter, and one that visitors really hate, is slow loading pages. This is usually caused by having either too many graphics, or graphics that are too large. But not to worry, there are some simple solutions.

Contrary to what the Internet industry wants you to believe; about 90% of Internet users are still using slow dial-up connections. Download speeds of 3k to 5k per second are not uncommon. Faster cable and DSL connections that offer up to 250k do ...
Author: Jeff Colburn
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Top Secret Tips for a Perfect Color Scheme
Many Web page builders agonize unnecessarily over choosing a
color scheme for their pages. In addition to the color
choices themselves, the proportion of those colors is also
critical to the overall look of the Web page. Fortunately,
there is a very simple, foolproof way to create a perfectly
harmonized and proportionate color palette.

This method is so simple, and so effective, that I don't
know why it isn't plastered all over the web ... but it
isn't, it's still a " ...
Author: Mike Morgan
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