Watermarks & Art Theft

Sunday, January 4th, 2009 | Filed under Articles, Lessons | 5 Comments

This post deals with watermarking your work to be displayed on the Internet. It shows you how to create a watermark brush that you can use as a signature watermark each time you want to post one of your images.
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Tags: brush, copyright, deviantArt, digital darkroom, photoshop, text, tutorial, watermark

Digital Darkroom: Correcting Lense Distortions

Thursday, November 20th, 2008 | Filed under Lessons | 2 Comments

Lense distortions can be found in photos that have been shot using a wide angle lense (sperized effect, barreling) or they can be perspective distortions cause by not standing right in front of the subject as well as tilted images or vignette effects. This article will cover methods to remove these distortions both “traditionally” as well as using the Lense Distortion Filter available in PS CS3 and up.

Content:

• Everything in one place: PS CS3 and up
• Correcting Lense Distortion “old style”
  • Removing the Spherized Effect (aka “barreling”)
  • Removing Unwanted Perspective
  • Straightening Crooked Images

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Tags: digital darkroom, free transform, lense distortions, perspective, spherize, straighten

Digital Darkroom: Colour Gradients

Friday, October 17th, 2008 | Filed under Lessons | 5 Comments

Today we’re taking a look at a basic darkroom technique that can help you greatly in setting a mood for your images – be it in photography or photomanipulation.
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Tags: colour, digital darkroom, gradients, light & shadow, photomanipulation

Originality in Art

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 | Filed under Articles | 10 Comments

Sometimes I just feel I have to let out a loud cry of “Not another one of those!” even though it’s ultimately no use. But today, it is just too tempting a topic to ignore and I’m in the mood to write down some thoughts on the subject.
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Tags: digital darkroom, opinion, originality, photomanipulation

Of Tools and Art Forms

Thursday, September 18th, 2008 | Filed under Articles | 5 Comments

The term “photomanipulation” often has a negative ring to it, as people connect it with deception. People like to think that photographs are snapshots of reality and even to this day photographs and videos are sometimes treated as the ultimate proof that something did in fact happen.
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Tags: art, awareness, digital darkroom, photomanipulation, retouching