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Adobe Lightroom tutorials

knut — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:44:57 +0000

I have been using Adobes Lightroom for a while. Lightroom is a good workflow application and is really good on editing RAW files. It’s quite easy to use but I have been missing a good tutorial. Until now that is. I have found creativepro.com‘s Lightroom tutorial.

LightZone 3.3 beta offers pro photo manipulation for Linux

knut — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:11:50 +0000

LightZone is a comercial photo editing software with good reviews. There’s a free Linux version of this program. Read the review in Linux.com.

Open SOurce photography

knut — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:05:18 +0000

I am a hobby photographer. A digital hobby photographer. One of the negative things of being of being digital is that good software often costs money and much are really expensive to. Therefore I am on the look for cheap or open source alternatives.

I just stumbled on the website Open Source Photography that deals with open source photography software. Here’s the old site with lots of tutorials.

The site is the forum of the Flickr group Open Source Photography (OSP).

Two cross platform tools to make panoramas

knut — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:13:02 +0000

Hugin is a program to make panoramas with. Enblend is used to merge several pictures with different exposures together to make a picture that looks like a tonemapped image.

Here’s a nice article about how to use enblend on Linux.

Getting Wacom drawing tablets to work in Linux

knut — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 13:12:38 +0000

I got a Wacom tablet for my birthday. It’s ideal for making drawings with my PC. It’s easy to setup and I get good results from what I do. Off course I am no artist so it’s nothing fancy. It’s much easier to use a tablet than to draw or retouch with the mouse.

I have gotten the tablet to work in Windows and on my Mac, but I have had trouble getting it to work well in Linux. The problem is that the drawing area on the tablet is only a small portion of the drawing in my preferred applications. The GIMP and Inkscape. I haven’t found any solutions for the problem until I read this article in Linux.com. Now it seems to be a way for me to use Linux also for drawing and retouching.

Here is one of the drawings I have made with my tablet.

Photo Slideshows are So Yesterday. ANIMOTO = Your Photos + MTV

knut — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 20:03:39 +0000

Check it out here!

Picturesque

knut — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:02:28 +0000

Picturesque seems to be a nice program to make stylish pictures for webpublishing

Taken from the homepage of Acqualia.com.

Picturesque is an application designed to make images look gorgeous for the web.

With an animated “drag and drop” style interface, Picturesque can beautify your images with reflections, soft glows, shadows, delicate curves, strokes and fades in less time than it takes to open Photoshop.

Picturesque can also beautify a whole stack of images in batch with a single click, and includes a set of handy Automator actions.

How to make an Escher picture

knut — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 10:12:35 +0000

Droste Effect Step #1

This picture is incredible and seems very difficult to make. Josh Sommers has made a tutorial at Flickr that describes how to produce images like the one above.

How to make a black and white photo with a touch of colour

knut — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 14:37:24 +0000

http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/mono-with-a-dash-of-colour-photoshop-cs2-tutorial/

Digital Photography School – Digital Photography Training for You

knut — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 10:12:36 +0000

Digital Photography School is a blog dedicated to taking better pictures and enhancing them.
It seems to be a pretty good resource of everything photographic and even has a good forum with dedicated participants.

Head over to http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/