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Package Printing
Many Options In Photoshop
Darryl C. Nicholas  |  Dec 01, 2001  | 

For those of you who do pro or semi-pro shooting, you probably already know about package printing. It's when you send a negative to a lab and ask them to make up an order from it that would be something like (1) 8x10, (2) 5x7s, (2)...

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Playing With Pixels
The Digital Darkroom, Changing The Way We Take And Make Pictures
Rick Sammon  |  Oct 01, 2001  | 

One of the coolest things about digital imaging is that it has changed the way we take and make pictures. Big time!

I experience this almost every time I shoot. Knowing that an...

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Another Option
Dodging And Burning In With Photoshop
Darryl C. Nicholas  |  Sep 01, 2001  | 

Back in the
old days when I spent most of my life in a conventional darkroom, I used
to do a fair amount of dodging and burning-in. For some strange reason
almost every picture needed some slight adjustments. As long as I was...

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Playing With Pixels
Adding, Changing, And Jazzing Up Color
Rick Sammon  |  Jun 01, 2001  | 

As photographers,
we love to photograph colorful subjects. We sometimes travel to exotic
locations to photograph people dressed in colorful garments and costumes.
We frame brightly painted buildings in our viewfinders. We focusou...

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Software Roundup 2001
New And Improved Tools For The Digital Photographer
David B. Brooks  |  Jun 01, 2001  | 

Corel Print House 2000
Although there is a large selection of consumer entry-level photo applications for Windows, there are few off-the-shelf packages for the Mac. The Corel Print House 2000 is a welcome alternative. In fact, at...

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Get Control Of Color
WYSIWYG, Are We There Yet
David B. Brooks  |  Apr 01, 2001  | 

As I write this, it's just after the holidays and I'm sure many are trying out their first steps with a new computer, ink jet printer, scanner, or digital camera. Thanks to Plug-N-Play, most will have these devices working...

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Digital Print Display
How To Mount And Frame Your Ink Jet Masterpieces
Jay Abend  |  Apr 01, 2001  | 

Oh, what a world we live in. Cell phones the size of a pack of chewing gum, 200 channels of cable TV, the Internet and digital cameras that anyone can afford. As technology marches forward everyone seems to get all wrapped up in the hardware...

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Playing With Pixels
Make A Digital Montage
Rick Sammon  |  Apr 01, 2001  | 

The photo montage--a
picture or several pictures within a picture--has been around for decades.
In the 1930s, for example, famed Harlem photographer James Van Der Zee
created montages in camera and in the darkroom. His mostfamous...

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A Pros Touch
Creative Portrait Backgrounds Using Photoshop 6.0
Darryl C. Nicholas  |  Mar 01, 2001  | 

In the "old days" we kept dozens of different backgrounds in our studio. By using different colored lights on them, we could create even more different options for our portrait customers. Today all of that is mostly obsolete. It is now...

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Black And White In Color
Something Extra From Monochrome Digital Images
Joe Farace  |  Feb 01, 2001  | 

One of the reasons purists often refer to black and white prints as "monochrome" is that it's a much more precise term that also covers prints made in sepia and other tones. One of the advantages of working with monochromatic digital...

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Made Easy
Digital Sepia Toning
Darryl C. Nicholas  |  Feb 01, 2001  | 

In the old days, in a wet darkroom, we frequently sepia toned our black and white prints. The real goal of sepia toning a print was to alter the chemicals in the emulsion to improve the life of the image. But, of course, many folks simply liked the look...

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Playing With Pixels
Add Motion To Stills
Rick Sammon  |  Feb 01, 2001  | 

I'm a still photographer: I shoot only still pictures. Video? It's cool, but I like to capture individual "frozen moments in time." However, I often like to convey action--and the grace of a moving subject--in my still...

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Deja Vu: Kodak Photo CD Revisited
Joe Farace  |  Jan 01, 2001  | 

While Kodak's Photo CD process was originally announced in 1990, it wasn't until the summer of 1992 that a photo lab in my area offered the service. The original concept behind Photo CD was at once simple and complex. The...

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Getting Started In The Digital Darkroom
And A Look At The Other Dark Room
Rick Sammon  |  Oct 01, 2000  | 

Ah, I remember those days well. And I remember her. The year was 1967. I, at 17, was spending time in my parents' basement darkroom with my girlfriend, Jan. It was in this makeshift darkroom in Garden City, New York, where Jan and I developed some...

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Playing With Pixels
Cool Tools For Hot Pix
Rick Sammon  |  Sep 01, 2000  | 

Hi there, thanks
for checking out Playing With Pixels. This time around we'll take a quick
look at some of the cool tools in Adobe Photoshop that can help improve
your images--and your image among your photo pals. Don't havePhoto...

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