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Texture a Photo in under 3 minutes!
Add Depth and a Story when you Texture a Photo A great way to add a story and depth to your image is to texture a photo. I do this often with photos that could use something extra to make them more dynamic. Kind of like the photo in the video you see today. A...
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My First HDR
I took my first HDR image on 28 February 2010 at Henry Cowell's Redwood Forest near Santa Cruz, California. I was digging through my archives and found it, all somber and forgotten, poor guy. I looked at the tone mapped file that I did in 2010 and realized my HDR...
Dodging and Burning
Today's video tutorial shows you how to successfully dodge and burn your HDR images without destroying them with permanent modifications. It is a really simple method of making a %50 gray layer over the image you would like to dodge and burn. You then set the layer...
Light It, Shoot It, Retouch It Review
When I first bought my strobe I set out to learn more about it, how to light an object, and how to make it all work. Lighting is a very tricky aspect of photography when you have no idea where to begin. I found myself reading several books, and while I learned a...
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