Category: Image edit

  • Panoramic photo, tricks

    Photographic panoramas are certainly, with HDR images (high dynamic range), photographiques, avec les images HDR (à haute dynamique), one of the photo techniques that most profited for the arrival of electronic imagery. What seemed reserved to the owners of luxuriously priced and specialized equipment now appears simply an idea to bring variety to your photographic…

  • Give your digital photos an old frame

    One special use of the Library of Congress collection of historical photos: Transform your photos into old-looking original pictures from a century ago. For this, essentially, you go hunting for a nice looking frame in the LOC collection on Flickr. You will easily find a photo which has the kind of frame you’d like to…

  • Photoshop brushes for The GIMP

    photo credit: John Flinchbaugh For all of us who would hesitate to use GIMP because of the stock of brushes they collected and use with Photoshop, I like to remind that GIMP supports the Photoshop brushes (in ABR brush file format) from version 2.4. This is limiting the risks and issues to the strict minimum.…

  • False HDR for free

    If you want to get an HDR (High Dynamic Range) aspect to your photos but do not want to spend the effort of taking multiple picture and combining them together, there is a free solution: Fake it! Forget all the hassle and apply the right image transformations to obtain a picture with all the features…

  • Tutorials for The GIMP

    GIMP tutorials is exactly what you would expect: task-oriented how-to guides for The GIMP graphic software. I specially like the simplest ones: How To Make An Icon From A Picture Creative Composition Split-toning in GIMP Adding life into a Flat Photograph

  • Fractalius

    Fractalius is one of the most surprising Photoshop plugins. It allows the creation of exceptionnally interesting and complex pictures like the following “fractal lion”. I think that they may have discovered this by pure luck. But, it’s definitely beautiful.

  • 20 photo How-To guides

    I have been amazed at the number of tutorials and how-to guides that exist on the Internet. You could drown into them… So, I decided to try and sort it out for you. Here are Photo-related How-To Guides selected for the choice they offer. Photography (general) eHow – Cameras category HowToDoThings.com – Digital Cameras Instructables.com…

  • Photoshop tutorial: The Police

    You know this album cover from The Police. Digital Photography School, inspired by the album cover, teaches you how to do the same effect with your own photos. → Source: Photoshop Inspiration: Police CD Label.

  • Faster Photoshop

    Photoshop is certainly a big software program and it is always good to provide it with a lot of memory. As much memory as possible. 2GB RAM is needed to start working correctly on the images of a modern photo camera (more tha 6MP). But there is something which quickly becomes the bottleneck when you…