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If I want soft focus, should I get the Canon 135mm soft focus lens or do it in Photoshop?
I always read that when possible it's best to "get things right in camera" which I always aim for - so following that line of thinking, would it be worthwhile to get the Canon 135mm f/2.8 soft focus ...
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How was this image where a person appears to lift a paved road created?
Since the development of advanced photo editing programs like Adobe Photoshop, artists use unusual techniques supported by creative imagination to produce unrealistic but conceptional images. Among ...
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Where lays the border between correcting photo and creating a new one using PC?
There are two physical different steps on creating the photo:
Actual shooting (including preparing to shooting)
Post processing on PC (all what starts after downloading the photo to PC)
On the ...
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How can I change colour of reflection/shadows to blue, to match the water?
Original Pic:
I have taken and edited the above shot in Lightroom to give an evening effect. I would like to remove the green reflection of trees on the lake to darker blue or the color of ...
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How to clear edges from a lasso cropped object in Photoshop CS6?
I've cropped this picture with the lasso tool:
What's my next move about this? Do I do this manually by removing pixel by pixel or are there some quicker solutions for this task?
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How does Akif Hakan Celebi manipulate his images?
Akif Hakan Çelebi is a great photographer, and his works are obviously manipulated via Photoshop, how does he manipulate? Which progress will give those results?
Because of spam mechanism and new ...
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Should an artist/photographer admit to a photo being edited?
I was recently looking at some landscape photography awards in Central London and noticed that quite a few of the images had significant post editing in Photoshop. The artists had even mentioned ...
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How do I remove halos around a replaced sky in a black and white photo?
I am looking for a bit of advice from some Photoshop experts out there. I have a photo in which I have replaced the original dull sky (method explained below) with a sky that is a deeper blue and has ...
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Image overlay and processing [closed]
If I overlay an image( lets say A) with another image(B) using 50% transparency. is it possible to recover A without knowing what B is? Dose overlaying make it hard to extract the original content?
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How can I tell if a photo is real or faked?
How can I tell if a photo has been edited or manipulated? Are there techniques for distinguishing real photos from fakes?
Are there software tools that can help? Are there things I can do in ...
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What does it mean to brighten an image?
Courtesy of my optometrist, I now have images of my retinas. However, the images are a bit dark. I have RGB values for each pixel. In this setting, is brightening the image equivalent to increasing ...
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How to identify photoshop-edited files
If I have saved an image in JPG format after doing some edits, is there a way to identify that it is edited with Photoshop?
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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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The best location for pro sound clips and pro clip art images? [closed]
What is the best location to get for free or buy pro sound clips and pro clip art images?
I need 25-50 such images per each category of interest. For example, the category is "Restaurant" and I need ...
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What is must have software for image editing on Mac?
Currently, I have downloaded Gimp on my Mac and using it to edit images. I don't mind spending money to buy other software if it makes things easier or faster. What is must have software for image ...
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Effect to reduce width of photo without cropping or stretching
I saw a documentary a few years ago (about 5) demonstrating a photographic manipulation formula, which can reduce the width of an image, without stretching, or cropping. It would do this by ...
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How are these 3d images made?
Just recently, Yahoo.com posted images that have a 3d effect without any glaesses and here is an example of one of them:
How is this done? I searched all over but can't find any good tutorial. I ...
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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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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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What program can blur a photo to show motion?
I have a picture in the woods of a path. I want to blur the woods so they look like they are being run by really fast, not just plain blurry. The best analogy I can think of is like cars look on ...
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How does automatic HDR software work?
An HDR image is the combined image of varied exposures that give good detail of the subject in the photograph. How does HDR software know what part of the images to blend?
Manually, we know by ...
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How to achieve the photo effect of “Live Christmas Music at the Americana in Glendale, California” by Chris Yarzab?
I came across the below photo while browsing Wikimedia Commons. (Photo by Fourbyfourblazer)
My Question, how was this photo processed to obtain this effect?
HDR, Photoshop Filters, What?
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How can one manipulate gaze direction in post-processing?
Let's say you have a portrait photo of somebody looking straight in to the camera and you, in retrospect, want to change the gaze so that the person looks, say, to the upper right instead. How would ...
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Is it possible to change the point of view of an existing image by extrapolating the missing data automatically?
Is there any software to take an existing picture and to raise up the camera position a little bit for changing the perspectives and the software will recognize how to fill the missing parts?
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How do I turn photograph backgrounds transparent?
Excuse me if this question is in the wrong SE site, but it seems the most appropriate place. I have a client that makes children's accessories. She takes the pictures of her products herself. When ...
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How can I create a grayscale with color highlighting effect in Lightroom?
Highlighting certain area with color, leaving the rest grayscaled — what is the name of this effect in photography?
What is the most precise way to achieve this effect in Lightroom?
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Can digital cameras sign images to prove authenticity?
Beyond the metadata/EXIF/IPTC (which can be easily altered), is it possible to prove that an image is authentic? If this is not possible, how does a photojournalist prove the authenticity of an ...
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How do I remove photo-editor metadata from a JPG file?
How can I remove the header information which shows the name of image editing software? I want to "clean" the metadata from a JPG file so that nobody knows that image has been edited and appears as it ...
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Is there a desktop application for easy photo effects, like Camera+ for the iPhone?
I'm searching a desktop equivalent of the Camera+ iPhone app. The app Camera+ has predefined effects which can be added to images. Basically, all I want is a desktop application which is able to ...
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How do I effectively split an outdoor image across an uneven horizon in Gimp?
I'm looking to take an image looking out at a storm in the distance that has a fairly uneven horizon due to trees and a foreground fence post and only increase the contrast and decrease the brightness ...
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How do I link selections on two different layer masks in Photoshop?
I've created my own action in Photoshop CS5 and in my example I am recolouring grass.
The action stops for the user to paint a selection on a layer mask and continues with a colour balance ...
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Add rain effect to a photo?
I have a photo that I would like to post process to add a rain effect. Can anybody explain how I would go about adding the effect or suggest a good tutorial?
Ideally I would be able to use my ...
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How do I get this 'glare' effect?
I have been staring at this Apple Image & trying to figure out how to get this glare effect (which can be seen on the monitor).
Someone knows?
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Is there an easy way to select by histogram range in GIMP?
The other day I was wondering if there is an easy way in GIMP to choose the pixels that are part of a selected range on the histogram.
