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Portraiture can make you beautiful
Connected Photographer Magazine - April 2007
"Make me beautiful." Every photographer has heard this at least once. For those of us who've taken many fashion or glamour photos, we've heard it a lot. Enter Portraiture, a $169 Photoshop plug-in from. Portraiture can help you get the most out of your portraits with the least amount of work. Is it worth your money? Read the review to find out.
Bring out your inner Van Gogh with Snap Art
Connected Photographer Magazine - March 2007
If you've ever used Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, most likely you've played with the filters. Even more likely, you've tinkered with the various painterly effects that have long come with both programs. Back when Photoshop first came out, these were the cat's meow. Amazingly, you could take a run-of-the-mill picture and turn it into something that seemed like you had an artist's talent. Into this reality comes Snap Art, from Alien Skin Software. Snap art updates the Photoshop artsy-fartsy plug-ins for the modern world, adding ten new artist-like effects.
More twisted effects from the TwistingPixels Sampler
Connected Photographer Magazine - June 2006
We continue our survey of the twisted effects possible in the free Twisting Pixels Sampler product. This week, we talk about a few interesting effects and our impressions, overall, of the package.
Photo effect fun from the TwistingPixels Sampler
Connected Photographer Magazine - June 2006
Whenever I talk about digital photography to "regular" people, I'm always asked if there's any way to do digital image effects without buying expensive software. That, of course, is what our Budget Photo Secrets series is all about. This week, we've got a very nice photo effects tool that's available for download from TwistingPixels, the TwistingPixels Sampler. Read this article to learn about all the cool effects it'll do.
Genuine Fractals vs. Enlarger PRO: which is better?
Connected Photographer Magazine - January 2006
Back in July, we ran a review of Enlarger PRO, a program by Bearded Frog (a name still makes me chuckle) that uses fractals to help you enlarge your digital images and still retain some degree of sharpness. After the review ran, we got a number of reader letters asking us about a program called Genuine Fractals, perhaps the best known of the enlargement add-ons for Photoshop. In this article, we compare the two. The results will shock you.
Enlarger PRO improves the quality of your digital enlargements
Connected Photographer Magazine - July 2005
Enlarger PRO is designed to help you enlarge your digital images and still retain some degree of sharpness. This is not a simple problem and software that does this requires some very complex algorithms. If you'd like to know how well it works, you'll have to read the article.
Remove digital noise with Noiseware
Connected Photographer Magazine - July 2005
Today's digital cameras allow photographers to take great photos in low-light conditions with a minimum of effort. To accomplish this, the camera boosts the light sensitivity, or ISO rating, for the photo. There is a penalty to pay for this. That that penalty is a noisy photo. Can Imagenomic's Noiseware Professional help out? Read John Roling's review to find out.
Adjusting background distortion
Connected Photographer Magazine - March 2004
Last week, we awarded ImageAlign Pro our Plug-in of the Month award. That's a tool that'll help you adjust your images to correct lens distortion. But at $199, it's not for everyone. This week, we show you a few simple tricks to fix up your own images using some simple transforms in Photoshop.
Correcting lens distortion with ImageAlign Pro
Connected Photographer Magazine - February 2004
This month, we're giving our Plug-in of the Month award to ImageAlign Pro, a product that can make a necessary, but very tedious job much easier. Read this article to learn more.
Mystical lighting, tint, tone and color effects
Connected Photographer Magazine - January 2004
This month, we're giving our Plug-in of the Month award to two Auto FX plug-ins that work really well together: the Mystical Lighting and Mystical Tint Tone and Color plug-ins. Read this article to learn why.
Beyond cheesiness: how to frame your pictures
Connected Photographer Magazine - December 2003
Poor Ben Hochstrasser. He wrote a great, free program called FrameFun. It's a very useful program, capable of many features. However, in the interests of writing an article about doing what I call "cheesy vignettes," we spotlighted only one, somewhat weak feature of this great program. Fortunately, Ben has both a sense of humor and pride of craftsmanship. He offered to write a follow-up article showing you how you can get a whole lot more out of FrameFun, turning it into a real resource for your digital photography toolbox. This is that article.
Creating cheesy holiday vignettes for free
Connected Photographer Magazine - December 2003
It's the holiday season, when the slush outside is frightful, and smelly kids are supposed to be delightful, and in that warm and smarmy spirit, I bring you a free utility that will help you create vignettes until the cows come home.
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