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New life for old pictures

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I was looking around the other night at tutorials for The GIMP (my graphics editor of choice) and happened upon a tutorial at Gimpology.com called “Fake HDR Look in Gimp” posted by jneurock.
To answer the question that a lot of […]

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Filed under: Special Effects and Techniques by Thriell - 13. August 2008, No Comments

POTD 8/13/08

I was very pleased with the way this turned out. A few small steps really improved a picture that, in my opinion, wasn’t bad to start with. First, I fixed the baby’s red-eye problem. Next, I selected both eyes and used a little “unsharp mask” on them. While I had the eyes selected, I lightened […]

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Filed under: POTD and Techniques by Thriell - 13. August 2008, No Comments

How to create a Star Trek style transporter effect using freeware

While working on a video my wife needed recently, I got wondering how one would go about making a realistic Star Trek style transporter effect. After working out in my own mind what the basic steps were, I found a set of instructions at mediacollege.com that detailed exactly how to do it if you happen […]

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Filed under: Special Effects and Techniques by Thriell - 14. February 2008, 2 Comments

Photographing Snow

It can be tricky trying to take a picture of a snow-covered landscape. All that bright white snow fools your camera into thinking there’s more light than there really is.
To Illustrate my point, here’s a picture I took this morning (as usual, click the thumbnail to view the full-size picture):

That looks kind of dark for […]

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Filed under: Techniques and The Basics by Thriell - 31. January 2008, No Comments