Posted April 18th, 2010 by Smick
I have just been looking at the new features in the new edition of Photoshop CS5 which will be available in a few weeks in the UK and I am astounded by the new features that expand the use of photoshop to a new level. Puppet warp feature is one of them, it has blown [...]
Tags: photoshop
Posted December 12th, 2009 by Smick
Here is another excellent studio flash lighting setup from studioxil, the clear concise details they give of the setup shows you where to put your flash heads, this setup has 3 flash heads one with a snoot, one with a large softbox and one with just a reflector. Studio setup Use this link to see [...]
Tags: photography lighting, portrait photography, studio flash
Posted December 9th, 2009 by Smick
If you have had trouble folding your light cube then this video will hopefully help you to get it back in the bag.
Tags: continuous lighting, gavin hoey, product photography
Posted November 25th, 2009 by Smick
Gavin Hoey shows you a trick in photoshop to extend the background of a product photography image. Enlarge a background for product photography from Gavin Hoey on Vimeo.
Tags: gavin hoey, product photography
Posted November 3rd, 2009 by Smick
Pictures to Exe is a great program to make your pictures into an executable file but it doesn’t end there it has some quite sophisticated functions. This by far the best program for this type of work, the latest version has 3d effects and can produce executables for Macs. pictures to exe
Posted October 15th, 2009 by Smick
More and more people these days are using RAW files from their camera as its much more versatile than JPEG’s, you can then work with them in adobe camera raw before transferring it to Photoshop. A new DVD is out which goes through all the major functions. Produced by Gavin Hoey this is what he [...]
Tags: camera raw, gavin hoey, photoshop
Posted September 23rd, 2009 by Smick
Gavin Hoey has agreed to do some videos for us you might want to check him out at gavtrain he does his own videos on various aspects of photography and gives lots of tips. Best known for writing in Digital Photo magazine on all things involving photoshop he digs deep in photoshop coming up with [...]
Posted September 15th, 2009 by Smick
These guys are great another photography lighting setup for you to try, the quality of this site is very good, studio flash lighting setups with super quality diagram and sample picture. If have studio flash equipment then you can’t go too wrong in trying to emulate their flash lighting setups.
Posted September 15th, 2009 by Smick
We have come across a great digital printing company. If you want business cards, flyers, leaflets in black and white or colour then these are the guys to choose. They print multiple page brochures and also posters up to A0 size, in fact any short run print job you have. They are called D65 and [...]
Posted September 5th, 2009 by Smick
For all you studio flash or flashers we have found this website showing a studio flash lighting equipment setup, if you have a studio kit with three heads you can emulate this. Very clear diagram on how to position your backdrop, studio flash heads with softbox and your model. This even shows make up used [...]
Tags: flash lighting, studio flash, studio lighting