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Photo Editing > Enhancing the Image
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Articles
Making your subjects stand out
Connected Photographer Magazine - December 2007
Sometimes it's hard to get just the close-up of the subject you want. You can use Photoshop to call extra attention to your photo's subject. In this article from Jorge Sosa, you'll learn how to make your subjects pop against a busy background; and you won't have to play in traffic to do it.
Editing photos can be a Picnik
Connected Photographer Magazine - August 2007
What if you could make some simple photo changes without installing anything on your computer? Or, what if you want to resize, crop, or do a little retouching while you're at school, in a library, or someplace else where you're using someone else's PC? Now, with a fun little Web site called Picnik, you can.
Enhance your view with VueScan
Connected Photographer Magazine - July 2007
In an age where digital images are as common as the local drugstore, it's important to preserve the images of the past. In many cases, the photo is the only record we have of an event. Getting the most accurate digital rendition of the photo is our last best hope of preservation. In order to do that, you'll need to pair your scanner with Hamrick Software's VueScan.
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.
How to sharpen your image with the Unsharp Mask filter
Connected Photographer Magazine - February 2007
Whether you're shooting a Fortune 500 CEO for the cover of Forbes magazine or yearbook pictures for the graduating class, eyeglass glare is one of the more common problems plaguing portrait photography. In this first article in our Photoshop Guru series, Photoshop guru Jane Conner-ziser takes you through the steps necessary to clean up eyeglass glare.
Create a forward-looking feel with a blend
Connected Photographer Magazine - July 2006
This week, we look at how to use Photoshop to create an interesting blend effect to merge two pictures together, creating a special mood.
Using RAW import to create cool color effects
Connected Photographer Magazine - April 2006
A few weeks ago, we ran an article in Connected Photographer that reviewed the weird, little Lensbaby lens attachment for SLR cameras. In that review, Editor-in-Chief David Gewirtz used a sample image to showcase how the Lensbaby transformed the image into something more surrealistic. A bunch of you wrote in asking about the blue effect on the image. The answer is amazingly simple. This article will show you what we did.
When you use the History Brush, you're painting with the past.
Connected Photographer Magazine - October 2005
Photoshop and its little brother, Photoshop Elements, are amazing tools. They're also amazingly complex. In fact, you can use Photoshop for years without ever tapping its full potential. In our new Photoshop Secrets series, we're going to take one small feature of Photoshop per article and help you understand what it does. This week, it's the History Brush.
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.
Using channels to get the best black and white from your color images
Connected Photographer Magazine - February 2005
Over the past month or so, we've been talking more and more about creating black and white photographs from color originals. While you can certainly desaturate an image, one of our favorite techniques is to choose among the various color channels and use the best-looking channel as the basis for a black and white image. Editor-in-Chief David Gewirtz describes how that's done in this article.
Punch up your image with saturation
Connected Photographer Magazine - November 2003
For many folks, tools like Photoshop are daunting with all their options. So it's nice when you can find a quick and easy trick that'll give you a lot of results from a single command. A quick saturation adjustment is just such a trick.
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