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  • Terry’s Color-to-B&W Converter Photoshop Action “Pick Six”

    This was inspired by a friend’s need to convert several color photographs to black and white for printing in their non-profit organization’s plain-paper newsletter, and also by the excellent book Mastering Black and White Digital Photography by Michael Freeman. (ISBN 1-57990-707-5). Below I’ve included the download link for the fr’ee “Color-To-B&W Pick Six” action that converts a color image to black and white using several Photoshop techniques. It is quite useful for quickly applying the six basic methods for creating a Black and White image for use in printing applications.

  • Sneak Peek – L*A*B Color Mode Image Improvement Techniques

    I’m busy working on a series of articles and videos I’ll release here soon on using the LAB mode for improving images (or L*A*B mode as some prefer to write it, myself included!) A friend, Fred Vaughan, has agreed to allow me to use his beautiful photographs taken in Colorado and elsewhere in the western U.S. as my subjects. Below is a sample done using just some fairly simple curves – all work being performed in the L*A*B color space! By increasing color contrast (not merely by increasing saturation), we can bring out the natural coloration that the light presented to our eyes, and restore that which is lost by the static interpretation of the camera lens. Before (Click image for full-screen versions – you can load both into separate tabs to A/B compare them): Fred Vaughan Image - original And after having the curves shown beneath the image applied (Click image for full-screen version): Note how the vibrancy of the full daylight is restored from the above version where the camera had “flattened out” the color’s dynamic range. Watch this space for some nice full tutorials soon! But in the meantime, please try some L*A*B mode moves on your own! Fred Vaughan image - with LAB Curves

  • Rutt at Dgrin offers another gem – Dan Margulis Portrait Action

    I mentioned a very prolific poster at DigitalGrin.com naming himself “rutt” (I believe John is his real name). He is a follower, as I am, of Dan Margulis. rutt has offered up his own “DanMargulisPortrait.atn” (link is often dead – see below) — a Photoshop action — in the thread  of the Chapter 16 of […]

  • Black and White discussion at Dgrin turns up nice PS action!

    So… I’m reading this great tutorial by rutt over at Dgrin (Digital Grin, folks!) called “B&W Conversion Workflow“, and I’m reading through it and see he has included a little Photoshop Action set. As rutt puts it: “I have an action which aides to to getting to this point. Pick it up here.” Brief and […]

  • CamStudio Settings to Keep Audio and Video in Sync

    I just created this video after a bit of trial and error (and research!) that demonstrates how to set up:

    CamStudio 2.6 Beta (official download link)

    so that the audio and video stay in synchronization throughout the length of the video. (Or download the Most Stable Camstudio 2.0 release) Getting CamStudio to synchronize the video to the audio requires that the “Playback Rate” in Video Options divides evenly into 1000 milliseconds, with the result being placed in the entry that goes in the box above it, “Capture Frames Every”. This must be a whole number (no fractions). This basically means that you have five options for playback rate/frames per second (as CamStudio does not allow fractional entries in the “Capture Frames Every” box). You must use, therefore, 40 milliseconds with 25 frames/sec, or 50 milliseconds with 20 frames/sec, or 100 milliseconds with 10 frames per second, or, if you are a mad scientist, 20 milliseconds with 50 frames/sec or 25 milliseconds with 40 frames/sec. The first two settings mentioned are plenty adequate for 90% of applications, though. Any other settings will cause a lag to develop in the audio that will get worse and worse as time passes.

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