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Light Trails
This style of photography is often referred to as light trails.
Photoshop is not necessarily needed. Effects like this can be achieved on a single photograph without multiple exposures.
1. You need darkness for this style. Even though the photo may end up looking light, absolute darkness is needed do this sort of photography. Usually this ...
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The technique is called a photomosiac, where an image in composed of lots of smaller images with different overall colour / brightness such that it resembles the master image when viewed from a distance.
There exist many pieces of software to sort the images and build the mosaic for you. That's not the hard part.
The problem is that if you have, say 20 ...
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It looks to me like they used a sparkler(hand held firework) and physically drew around the outline of the car and road. To do this of course you would need a very long shutter speed. For example if the outline of the car took 2mins, you would need at a minimum of a 2min exposure. It would also be possible to stack multiple exposures to achieve this if the ...
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I usually try content-aware patch first. I think that works better than most of the tools in most situations. Content-aware fill is also good.
Clone stamp is good for small areas, but on larger areas I always end up being able to see patterns from the stamping, or if I use low opacity and multiple passes, that has the effect of averaging out pixels and ...
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No, you don't need to be nervous yet. You may need either an updated version of Adobe Camera Raw or if an up-to-date enough version isn't available for your camera, then you may have to use Nikon's RAW tools (ViewNX) to do the initial adjustments to your photos. Once you get the photo looking the way you want from the RAW handling software, you can export ...
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I thought I'd pull some comparison shots out to show the sort of reduction you're going to be looking at. Though, of course, the effectiveness of this technique will depend on the specific image you're working with, this example should give you an idea on what you're looking at.
At 157 kb, the image is:
This comes from Photoshop CS 5.5's "Save For Web" ...
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I'd recommend playing around with the Save for Web feature in Photoshop. It is designed for making small jpeg files and will allow you to mess around with resizing the number of pixels as well as the compression level and will allow you to preview the results.
A word of warning however, the display dimensions and the file size you are looking for are ...
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Assuming Windows OS, if you are comfortable editing your registry:
open registry (using regedit command)
navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths
look for a key called "Photoshop.exe"
if it is there, it will probably contain a path to CS5. Edit the entry and paste in the path to your CS6 executable
if it is not ...
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If you click through the blog image to the smugmug gallery you can download the full resolution version.
Looking at that it seems "extreme sharpening" refers to the diameter as well as the strength of the unsharp mask. This has the effect of increasing microcontrast (at the expense of halos around edges). Try setting the diameter to something like 5 pixels ...
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The same as any removal. A clone brush, a digitizer tablet, patience and artistic talent/practice. Take surrounding material that fits and feather it in to make a distinct texture that doesn't look like it was simply copied. It can be done with a mouse and lots of brush adjustment, but it's far easier with a pen or better yet air brush style digitizer.
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While the process is a bit of a pain in the butt to set up manually, fake duotone/tritone/quadtone images can be created using a "monochroming" layer¹ and a Gradient Map adjustment layer set to Color blend mode.
If you are using a Smart Object as your original image, though, you can create a conversion-and-preview template image that will speed up the ...
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I borrowed your image to try it in Image View plus more 3, which I made myself so I know all the underlying algorithms.
I think this is pretty close, albeit the colours may be a bit different (my weakness as I am colour deficient).
What I did was:
Local contrast enhancement. Adobe calls this "clarity". It is similar to the unsharp mask with a very ...
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Open image in Photoshop CS3. Go to Image->image size->. A small window will show. Put your desired size on the text of document size. If your size is not accepted, uncheck scale style, constrain proportions, and resample the image. After noting your size, check those three options again and then reduce the pixel dimensions. It will decrease you KB size. But ...
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I don't quite understand what "5L x 3.6w" means, but the obvious thing to do here is to just to scale the photo down. I'm presuming that this will be used as a thumbnail or similar (if you're trying to do anything else with a 10 kB JPEG, give up now!) so pure image quality shouldn't be too important.
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The second one appears to use some post-processing to imitate lomography.
Here is a tutorial on recreating that effect.
See also this link.
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Actually Photoshop does not have a deblur feature - yet...
That video was a demo at Adobe MAX 2011 of something that did not make it into CS6.
However, all signs are indicating that a newer & better version of Image Deblurring makes it into the next release of Photoshop...
Note it will work to correct blur due to camera shake but not to out of focus ...
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> "Does anyone know of an article or site that lists the features of Lightroom, PS Elements, and PS, side by side?"
Yes, ours does - pretty comprehensively:
What's Are the Differences Between Adobe Photoshop CS vs. Lightroom vs. Elements?
Hope that helps with some of the key details and adds to the conversation.
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