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Amazing BMW Photo Enhancing In Photoshop

13 Apr

Amazing BMW Photo Enhancing In Photoshop using hue/saturation, levels,brightness and contrast, the crop tool. motion blur
Video Rating: 5 / 5

 
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Showcase: Natural Beauty Retouching with Photoshop

13 Apr

In this short showcase I show you how to turn a normal looking girl into a natural beauty that doesn’t look too much fake. I hope you enjoy this video. if you like it please visit my personal blog where i show you a lot more photoshop techniques. visit www.martinmelcher.de

First part of the tutorial. Portrait retouching 🙂

 

Photoshop – Auto Enhance Features

13 Apr

Before we get into the manual corrections, we need to show you the different auto correction features in Photoshop. Auto Tone, Auto Contrast, and Auto Color are the areas we will be discussing in this tutorial. You will find most of the time, these 3 tools will improve your image, but most of the time if you manually adjust the settings you will get better results. If you are looking for a quick fix, these tools will do a good job (not a great job) at correcting lighting and enhancing colors. Along the way, we will show you how to even enhance a portion of the Photo!

 

DSLR 101 – White Balance

13 Apr

251693960_23f2711016We’re continuing with our DSLR 101 this week and today we’re explaining white balance.

What?
White balance is responsible for keeping your photos the correct temperature. A low colour temperature creates more red, a higher colour temperature more blue. Digital cameras create the correct colour temperature by picking the part of the photo that it thinks should be white and filtering the light to make that area white.

Why?
If you want natural looking photos you need the correct white balance. In other words having the correct white balance prevents your photos from looking too cold (blue) or too warm (red). Although your camera will have an Automatic White Balance (AWB) setting digital cameras are not as good at detecting which part of the photo should be white as you are.

You can get a more accurate white balance by choosing a manual setting for the white balance or creating a custom white balance of your own.

How?
Most DSLRs will let you choose a white balance from within the menu. The choices are likely to include daylight, shade, cloudy/twilight, tungsten, fluorescent light, and flash. Using these setting is a good start and can improve your photos greatly, especially those taken in the more extremes light (such as fluorescent light or twilight).

To get the most accurate white balance you can set a custom white balance. You can buy a grey card from most photography stores to help you do this, or you can find a white object in your shot and use that instead. Fill the viewfinder with the grey card, or the white object, and shoot using manual focus. The exact method of setting this as the white balance varies from camera to camera, you may have to press the white balance button before you take the shot or after. Check the manual of your camera to find out how yours works.

Extra Tip
For most situations AWB or one of the manual settings will do just fine but it’s worth learning how to set the custom white balance, especially if you do a lot of shooting indoors.

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High Key fx.mov

13 Apr

In this video we look at creating a High Key effect while keeping subtle colours. We also look at enhancing the eyes making them main focal point of the image. The image is kept fully adjustable by the use of Blend Modes, Adjustment Layers and Masks

 
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Birth of the EOS 7D

12 Apr

Canon’s new offering for photography lovers everywhere

This video is the showcase about Aputure Digital Timer Remote for Digital SLR Camera
Video Rating: 4 / 5

 

Photoshop retouching: Photo filter corrections

12 Apr

Hi rez version at tutorialbucket.googlepages.com A quick and easy way to remove or add color casts from images using an adjustment layer.
Video Rating: 4 / 5

 

Stereoscopic audio-visual meditation session where binaural sound beats

12 Apr

“Break Of Reality” A 60 min stereoscopic audio-visual meditation session where binaural sound beats presented as a combination of Alpha and intense Theta Brainwave Stimulation combined with subliminal visual stimulators in Anaglyph 3D. Designed to help you develop PSI abilities, this allows the viewer to experience sensations that are normally not apparent in every day life. In theory this connection to a higher plane often gets established when we experience something unique , something that everyone can now experience though our meditation sessions. (Just a thought) binauralfx.com
Video Rating: 4 / 5

sites.google.com Auto-stereoscopic 3D Display. No need for special Glasses NAB 2009 #3 alioscopyusa.com Alioscopy’s displays are equipped with an array of lenticular lenses that cast different images onto each eye. Each lens magnifies a different point of view for each eye because it is viewed from slightly different angles. This results in a state of the art visual stereo effect. Alioscopy technology supports both 2D and 3D content in full HD resolution (1920 x 1080p). Standard video can be shown as well as specific 3D content, rendered with typical 3D software such as 3ds Max, Maya, Lightwave, and XSI. The Alioscopy display uses 8 interleaved images to produce the autostereoscopic 3D effect. The eight images can be created by a variety of methods, but they must represent 8 views of the 3D scene created by the Off-Axis Projection Method. Off-Axis Projection requires the use of asymmetric camera viewing cones as can be seen in the figure below. The left cone is in blue, the right in red.

 
 

Stunning Nikon

12 Apr

Nikon TV ad
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This is our overview video here around the Nikon D5000 which is a 12 MegaPixel D-SLR camera. This camera was released in April of 2009. This camera stands between the D60 and D90 from Nikon and with the D5000 your getting the best of both worlds. The D5000 can record 720p HD movies and it features live view as well. Also this is the first D-SLR from Nikon to feature an articulated screen. I recommend this camera for anyone looking into getting something a little more advanced than a Nikon D40 or D60 and something not too advanced like the Nikon D90 or D300. Please leave a comment if you have any questions and I will respond to your comment. Check your inbox as I might send you a message.
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The Mysterious Explorations of Jasper Morello

12 Apr

Now playing in the YouTube Screening Room: www.youtube.com Nominated for an Oscar and for a BAFTA award, Jasper Morello is a short feature made in a unique style of silhouette animation developed by director Anthony Lucas and inspired by the work of authors Edgar Alan Poe and Jules Verne. In the frontier city of Carpathia, Jasper Morello discovers that his former adversary Doctor Claude Belgon has returned from the grave. When Claude reveals that he knows the location of the ancient city of Alto Mea where the secrets of life have been discovered, Jasper cannot resist the temptation to bring his own dead wife Amelia back. But they are captured by Armand Forgette, leader of the radical Horizontalist anti-technology movement, who is determined to reanimate his terrorist father Vasco. As lightning energises the arcane machineries of life in the floating castle of Alto Mea, Jasper must choose between having his beloved restored or seeing the government of Gothia destroyed. Set in a world of iron dirigibles and steam powered computers, this gothic horror mystery tells the story of Jasper Morello, a disgraced aerial navigator who flees his Plague-ridden home on a desperate voyage to redeem himself. Also winner of the Grand Prix award at the Annecy Animation Festival, Jasper has also won the top honours at the Canadian Film Centre’s Worldwide Short Film Festival, Best Animation at Flickerfest 2005, Best Animation at the Sydney Film Festival Dendy awards and Best Animation at

Creating a walking animation is a foundational exercise, but it is also one of the most difficult to master as a beginning animator. Learn how to understand the body’s movements while walking with helpful information from a writer, director and animator in this free video on cartoon animation.