Burn baby burn!
July 10, 2008
So many filters, so little time. Oh sure, you may have perused The Almighty Filter Menu from time to time, but do you really understand their power and the plethora of special effects they unlock? Of course you don't. Nobody really does. Aside from texturizing text and creating cool edge effects, you can use filters to create realistic fire (it takes three of them to be exact).
This technique is actually from a feature article I wrote for Elements Techniques magazine last year; a fantastic tutorial-based publication on all things Elements-related. If you're an Elements fan, run--don't walk!--on over to ElementsUser.com to get a subscription. And though this here tutorial uses screen shots from Elements (version 4 on the Mac), the steps are... more
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Retouching People
July 3, 2008
Last night I had the pleasure of doing a little ditty on photography and Elements for the Danbury Area Computer Society, and consequently meeting up with Your Mac Life listener, John Leko and his lovely mom Judy. John's wife Mayra couldn't make it so we took a photo to commemorate the gloriously geeky event (though she couldn't be there, she sent brownies--what a woman!). I took a peek at the photo and unfortunately, both John and I suffered from an acute case of shiny skin. You know, those hot spots that are a touch overexposed and leave you looking as if you're glistening when you've got no cause to be... more
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