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Creating A Blue Sky
With Photoshop
Darryl C. Nicholas  |  Sep 01, 1999

Many photographs will have a white sky because the contrast range of the film was not great enough to capture the much brighter sky and show its blue color. This is especially true when shooting color negative film. Slide film--with its greater tone...

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Fun With Photoshop
Making A Montage In 48 Years Or Less
Rick Sammon  |  Jul 01, 1999

Someone once asked me, when looking at the three-picture montage in this article, "How long did it take you to create your `Flying High' image?" My reply, "21 years," brought a look of puzzlement to the person's...

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Scans, Scanning, & Scanners
Turning Your Pix Into Pixels
Joe Farace  |  Jun 01, 1999

After desktop printers, one of the most popular digital imaging products that Shutterbug readers ask me about is scanners. Typically, these aspiring digital imagers want to get started digitizing the slides and negative they've been shooting for many...

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The Digital Darkroom
Working With The Desktop
Darryl C. Nicholas  |  May 01, 1999

I've worked in a conventional,
wet darkroom almost all of my life. I can remember see-sawing black
and white film back and forth through open trays to develop it when
I was about 10 years old. I've beenthere...

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Fun With Photoshop
Creating Digitally Enhanced Portraits
Rick Sammon  |  Mar 01, 1999

Quick question: most of Ansel Adams' landscape posters are a) color or b) black and white? Take your time. Think about this master's medium. Before you answer, also consider the type of pictures that sell.

If you answered...

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Digital Photo Retouching
The New Wacom Intuos 9x12 Graphics Tablet System
David B. Brooks  |  Mar 01, 1999

For photographers one of the greatest advantages of digital photo processing is the ability to do all of your retouching, repair, and spotting just once and store it permanently in a computer file. Then, every print or other reproduction of the image is...

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Retouching Eyeglass Glare With Photoshop Version 5.0
Darryl C. Nicholas  |  Mar 01, 1999

Remember the old days when retouching eyeglass glare meant sending the image out to a retouching artist or, if you did it yourself, spending about an hour or more with wet dyes carefully blending colors and carefully adding dye in thin layers to gradually...

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Computerless Digital Photos
The Epson Photo PC 700 And Stylus Photo 700 Can Make It
David B. Brooks  |  Mar 01, 1999

For all of you still not into computers, some of digital photography's many advantages are available without one. Although I had some doubts coming into what I am about to propose: to use a digital camera and then print directly from it without a computer in between; I can assure you that...

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GrayScales
B&W From A Color Printer
Darryl C. Nicholas  |  Feb 01, 1999

A few years ago the manufacturers of ink jet printers were struggling in order to make printers that could lay down very tiny dots--very close together. During those days if you tried to make a black and white print, it tended to look a little grainy...

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Digital Imaging In Black And White
Joe Farace  |  Feb 01, 1999

There is a popular misconception that digital imaging is limited to color photography. That's simply not true. Digital imaging embraces all the same aspects of color--or lack of color--that conventional photography does. Part of this lack of...

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