Photoshop

Is Photoshopping really tantamount to cheating?

by Dave Stevenson on 13 January 2011 in Photography
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I was asked an interesting question the other week. This happens to me sporadically in my professional life, among the slightly duller requests for tips on which camera to buy or which printer to use. I was sitting in front of a selection of my work, mounted and framed in the hope that someone might see it and decide to fill a space on their wall with it in return for a small handful of money.

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MacUser Screencast: create a photo collage in Photoshop CS5

by Nik Rawlinson on 19 October 2010 in News

Sometimes when you take a bunch of photos for merging together as a single larger picture, you want to do something a little out of the ordinary. Follow along as MacUser’s Nik Rawlinson walks you through creating a photo collage using Photoshop. Here we’re using Photoshop CS5, but the technique also works with older versions of the application.

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There’s more to colour than meets the eye

by Keith Martin on 3 September 2010 in Design for Print
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Colour plays a crucial part in how we perceive things, so understanding its emotive effects is fundamental to creating standout designs. How do you react to colour? The hue of things has a surprisingly strong effect on how we perceive things and even on how we feel, both physically and emotionally. It’s thought that both [...]

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Keynote versus Photoshop? Not as crazy as its sounds

by Tom Gorham on 26 July 2010 in iWork
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It may be billed as a presentation tool, but Keynote can actually turn its hand to a variety of tasks, such as web page mockups and illustrations. Eton headmaster William Horman certainly wasn’t thinking of presentation programs when he wrote, almost 500 years ago, that necessity was the mother of invention. However, it’s a sentiment [...]

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Processing: you can have too much of a good thing

by Dave Stevenson on 29 June 2010 in Photography
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The whole point of digital images is that they can be improved with post-processing, but over-manipulate them and you’ll risk becoming clichéd. I wrote a column a couple of months ago along the lines of the death of Photoshop. In it, I suggested that for many professionals, the days of a per-pixel photo editor were [...]

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Break the bad attitude

by Kenny Hemphill on 18 May 2010 in Last Word

iAds will make yet more profit for Apple, but the company must change its attitude to developers to ensure that its renaissance continues. As I write this, Apple is on the verge of passing Microsoft to become the second biggest company in the US, behind Exxon Mobil. It’s just been placed third in Brandz’s annual [...]

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