In-camera or post-processing techniques for altering the look of an image.
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How do I achieve deep blue light night during the day effect?
I'm trying to learning about ND, I want to know if this picture was taken with a ND, or what kind of filter?
The effect I'm looking for is the deep blue and the "night" aspect. I'm wonder also how ...
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What are the effects/filters being used in these pictures?
What are the special effects and filters that applies in these pictures:
http://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/933920_650214808328552_285093563_n.jpg
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How can I recreate this glowing light effect?
How to have a glowing light ray effect outside some object like in this photo
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Using photoshop to get this effect ?
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Good resource to learn taking professional pictures [closed]
I hope you can help me find the kind of resource I need. I want to learn to use my own camera, Its Nikon P510, I have the user guide and of course it teaches how to use it. But what I want to learn ...
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How can I achive this soft-curved effect in photoshop? [duplicate]
I once used some Android application to add some effect on one of my photos. I forgot the app name and I never found it. Can I achieve this effect using Photoshop?
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How to get this abstract blurry effect on my picture?
I really like the blurry effect on the tunnel walls and ceiling in this photograph by Joko on 500px. I get disappointed with my pictures when I see something like that. Can someone explain me how he ...
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duplicate people with overlayed photos [duplicate]
I was reading this post and i saw that image of the guy jumping while skiing, and I was wondering. How did the photographer did that effect?
It's clear that you need multiple shots with a tripod, but ...
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Can Focus Stacking produce the same effect as Tilt-Shift?
A lens with a tilt adjustment is capable of producing a plane of sharpest focus that is not parallel to the image sensor. Could a lens with no tilt adjustment produce the same image, if many images ...
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What is this soft curved brushstroke-like effect?
I can call myself as nerd but this time I'm stuck, I couldn't find any information about a filter or effect. All I know is; there is a Photoshop brush set.
How can people do that effect like one in ...
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How do I create this soft bright look?
This is probably my favorite look in child portraits. I want to achieve this bright, yet color popping look in my photos. Is there specific lighting, like overexposing? Or is it post processing? Here ...
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How can I accomplish this aged photo effect in Photoshop?
I'm trying to accomplish this effect for my website. I need to do this to a couple photo's and they need to look exactly like this (see below).
Here is a link to the image with the effect I'm trying ...
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How to achieve a “moody” effect in urban landscapes?
I have been photographing for a few years now, mostly urban landscapes, among others - abandoned sites. I am not an artistic kind of guy, more of a perfectionist, so my photos are usually as realistic ...
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When is application of a sepia effect or filter useful?
We already know that the black and white filters can be used to see geometric layouts of a certain scene, without showing or emphasizing the colors. (i.e. where the colors are not important)
My ...
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What is this warped effect and how to achieve it?
What is the name of the effect used in this photo and how do you apply it to a photo?
As you can see, the nearest servers (which look like cupboards) are somewhat distorted. That is the effect I ...
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Can I do a Selective Color effect in Photoshop Elements?
In TipSquirrel there is a tutorial on "Unifying an image with Selective Color"
By Michael Hoffman. Can this be done with Photoshop Elements.
I am not very knowledgable on Photoshop Elements as I ...
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How do I create a vignette in Photoshop Elements 11?
I'm new to Photoshop Elements 11. I am trying to create a vignette effect on some pictures.
I'm using the Guided view with "Lomo Camera Effect" (but only the vignette option, not the lomo). I find ...
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How to get “rays” in night photos?
In this night picture, the lamp has characteristic "rays".
How is it possible to get similar effect? Is it related to aperture, or shutter speed, or lens type?
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How to I get the Instagram “Lux” effect without using Instagram?
I am kind of fascinated with the new Lux effect of Instagram. I want to "get" the same effect myself, during post processing. This is what I was able to get to, after playing with Levels, Contrast, ...
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Ноw can I make 1) light colors glow / 2) warming image (CS5)
Ноw can I make light colors glow as in the example (I think it is done without the help of blur)
And how can I warm the image (I tried: 1) make layer- solid color, change blending options; 2) change ...
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How do you create a washed out effect with deep blacks?
I have been wondering how to achieve a great portrait effect I have been seeing a little bit more lately.
The portraits are usually washed out, but blacks are still deep (not dull), and there seems ...
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What is the blurred light effect in this portrait?
Id like an explanation for how the blue background light in this photo is somehow "overlaying" the model's hair and the back of the chair. How could this effect be setup and reproduced?
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How can I achieve this warm, sunny, saturated effect in Photoshop?
I have 2 photos: before and after. I've been trying to achieve this effect for two months, but every time something is wrong. Help please. Maybe, some special plug-in is used for this processing? ...
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Can the lensbaby achieve a similar effect to a ± 8.5° tilt?
I quite enjoy the ± 8.5° tilt that the Canon TS-E 24mm f/3.5 provides. The cost is quite high at around $2,000USD. It seems that some people use lensbaby lenses for something of a similar effect. What ...
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Why do polaroid images look like they do?
I know that polaroid images are not done by effect, as one of my friends think, and that's silly.
But my question is why do they look like that ? I mean yellowish and fainted .. I know there is a ...
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Interesting image effects [closed]
I'm developing android application that applies some image filter. Right now I've created only two filters: comic effect and sketch effect. See images below.
Original:
Processed:
My aim is to ...
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What is this effect called and how can I post process my photos to get this effect?
I came across this image of an artist on a website. I was wondering what this type of effect on images was called and how I can post process my photos get this effect?
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some criteria when a filter looks good
I'm a developer who wants to figure out when a filter would look good applied to a given image.
For example, I have sepia, solarisation and pencil filters.
Okay, the perception will be very ...
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How was this blurry background, sharp motorbike effect achieved?
In this photo nominated as Canon Australia Photo of the Week, the background seems to blur while the rider is sharp. Wouldn't this normally be the other way? How was this done?
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What is this common effect? [closed]
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I am a newbie in photoshop photo edits. I have seen this effect somewhere many times, but I cannot identify it precisely. It looks like High Key effect. How can I achieve it in Photoshop?
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What is this “lines in the sky” effect called?
I see a lot of pictures with those "line" effects in the sky and I'm wondering how this technique is called (so I can google how it's done).
http://500px.com/photo/3464783
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What’s this post-processing effect?
I am very intrigued by this photo. Can anyone shed some light into how this effect could be achieved?
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photo 2
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How to achieve the blurred vertical lines effect in these photos?
How can I create the gray vertical lines effect at the bottom of this photo and the green vertical lines at the bottom of this?
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Can someone shed some light on how the effect in this bar photo was done?
I am very intrigued by this photo. Can anyone shed some light into how this effect could be achieved?
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What kind of effect can I hope to achieve by hand-holding a filter at an angle?
I have been looking at some of Little Shao's photographs when I came upon this photoshoot video.
Looking at the shoot I noticed this scene where the photographer is holding a filter at a diagonal ...
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Is the fake “Old photo look” taking the emotion out of real ones?
I have seen a LOT of digital images processed to make them look old, i.e. faded polaroid, sun damaged, multiple exposure, light leakage etc etc...
I am really starting to struggle to understand why ...
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How has the photographer made the subject stand out in this shot?
I came across the following photo today:
It's taken by Yoon Sul, a professional photographer. I marveled at the effect of the photo, but couldn't wrap my mind around how to take a photo quite like ...
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How to achieve this colored-haze effect in Lightroom?
I really like the colored-haze in this photo:
http://meiirene.35photo.ru/photo_372234/
How do I do it in Lightrooom?
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What kind of photo effect is this?
I've been seeing various photographers post photos with this type of effect
http://fadedandblurred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/yangtze-2.jpg
it's a bit washed out, yet retains the crisp detail ...
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How can I do this with my image?
I saw this series of images:
(Click on an image thumbnail to see it larger)
So I want to get the same from my image:
I got as far as reducing the colors to 2 (binary):
But I'm having ...
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How can I make close-by objects appear as if they were much bigger?
We all know the popular Tilt Shift technique that gives objects a "miniature" look, making them appear much smaller than they actually are.
I'm wondering whether it's possible to achieve the opposite ...
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How do you take a landscape photograph with “artistic” lens flare?
How do you shoot a landscape scene with an "artistic" lens flare? Something along the lines of this photo:
I tried shooting at small apertures but I keep getting "washed out" or extremely large ...
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Is there a way to create a tilt-shift photography effect without changing aperture? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to get a miniature effect on pictures without special equipment?
I recently asked a question that was closed, and this question is not the same. I am still trying to ...
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How can I use aperture to make my pictures better? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is aperture, and how does it affect my photographs?
I've recently started trying to change the aperture level on my camera to get cool effects, and I would like to ...
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How can this lighting/color effect be done?
The foreground is color (although very low contrast), and the background appears to be B&W. Can this be done during shoting, or only during post-processing?
I notice there is a greenish/bluish ...
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How can I tell when to stop adding an effect?
When I shoot a photo and load it into my image editing software and start playing with curves and sliders, sometimes I go so far. For example I increase the saturation and I keep increasing it till it ...
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How to reproduce this dark-toned color effect?
What technique is used in this image to produce such colors?
Is it just saturation and hue adjustment?
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How do I create a tilt-shift photography effect? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What's the best way to create a tilt-shift photograph?
How to get a miniature effect on pictures?
I have seen in different places the tilt-shift photography ...
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Superimposing objects from two different photos taken by two different cameras
I have a bunch of photos from my friend's wedding that were shot with a D5 mark II, that he wants me to add my wife (who couldn't be at the wedding) into a few of them. I found the PERFECT picture ...
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Getting the starburst in sun shine like this photo is from post processing or done at capture?
I can't believe that the following photograph is without any post processing.
Is that starburst sun shine in the photograph an outcome of post processing or is it the result of a trick at capture ...
