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Creative Lens Flare
This purchase includes a collection of 4 actions and 40 resource files for adding creative lens flare to your images. Add creative lens flare to your images in a controlled way using Photoshop and this action and image resource. Use this resource pack to create a variety of lens flare effects that look a whole [...]
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Borders and Textures
This purchase includes a collection of 6 actions and 44 resource files for adding borders and textures to your images. Get ‘down and dirty’ and experience life on the edge. Use this resource pack to create a whole range of grunge edges and toy camera effects. Blend in analog grain and paper textures to inject [...]
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Selective Grading
A Photoshop tutorial that demonstrates color grading and toning. These effects emulate the stylized treatments available from mobile apps such as Hipstamatic and Instagram. The action set allows the user to choose from a grading sampler option and four different treatments. All layers are left in place so you can fine-tune the appearance of the image. [...]
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Faux Holga
If you are getting tired of pin-sharp, noise-free, character-free images from your 20 Megapixel Pro DSLR, try this grunge effect to give your images the toy camera aesthetic – think WEIRD – think GRUNGE, think ART! The action set allows the user to choose from two different saturation settings and can be played on single [...]
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Toning Action
This action set includes multiple actions for emulating old film (a series of color drift actions), cross-processed film, split-toned images and classic sepia and bronze toning effects. The user can play each action separately or play a combination action that creates multiple layers in the same file, each with a different color effect or tone. [...]
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PHOTO WORKSHOP: Creative Processing: SUNSHINE COAST (Australia) – April 13/14/15
Posted 01/11/2012 by mark
http://www.worldadventures.com.au Join world leading Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop and Elements guru Mark Galer, plus Darran Leal for three digital packed days of the best information to help you be creative with your images. This event suits those that have done our Basic Lightroom/Photoshop/Elements workshop, or those that understand the basics of these programs. You [...]
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FREE Tutorial – Maximising Sharpness
Posted 29/01/2012 by mark
Sharp detail is one of the big ‘wow’ factors that separate the pro images from the ‘so so’ images. When your clients zoom in, or lean in, to one of your images you want them to spontaneously utter ‘wow that’s sharp’. If you are worried that your images could be sharper then you need to spend some time [...]
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Tutorial Bundle: Photoshop Elements
Posted 29/01/2012 by mark
Tutorial Pack (includes 2 hours of movie tutorials, images + 3 Bonus Actions) “Using crafty work-arounds to achieve remarkable results Mark Galer pushes Elements capabilities to new levels” Christy Brandt, Director of Engineering, Photoshop Elements, Adobe Systems, inc. 2 Hours of movie support (6 x HD Movies) + Action overview movie Maximum Performance Tutorials This [...]
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Photoshop Lightroom 4 Beta: Review
Posted 01/12/2012 by mark
Photoshop Lightroom 4: Public Beta An overview by Mark Galer Adobe has released its public beta for Lightroom. You can download a copy from: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom4/ As a beta version of the software it is free to download and use, but the software is neither feature complete or completely stable (it will crash!). I would, however, [...]
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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 Beta
Posted 01/11/2012 by mark
Download the beta http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom4/ New Features in Lightroom 4 Beta Highlight and shadow recovery brings out all the detail that your camera captures in dark shadows and bright highlights. Photo book creation with easy-to-use elegant templates. Location-based organization lets you find and group images by location, assign locations to images, and display data from GPS-enabled cameras. White balance [...]
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FREE: Asset management using Lightroom 3
Posted 29/01/2012 by admin
This free chapter download is ideal for photographers who would like to learn how to implement a workflow that effectively manages their photographic files that are spread over multiple hard drives. This chapter covers why I think Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 is the best database for amateur and professional photographers. It also outlines a four step [...]