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Digital Photography and Photo Editing
Digital Photography and Photo Editing Participants at the Ycademy March Seminar have decided: The month of April 2010 will be devoted to Digital Photography and Photo Editing. This decision comes as no...
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Digital Photography and Photo Editing II
The Tools for Ycademy in April 2010 In order to profit from Ycademy and it’s Seminar in April 2010 you will need to dispose of some professional tools we will introduce during the month. A Digital...
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Digital Photography Ycademy 2
Lightroom At Ycademy we are committed to Lightroom, the smashing Adobe image management and editing tool. Lightroom is a professional product which will help also amateurs to keep track of pictures,...
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Digital Photography Ycademy 4
Create your Photo Gallery Nice, your work! What’s next? We need an attractive and accessible way to share our photo- or other graphic work. Looking at Photo Galleries online, you will notice: most of...
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Digital Photography Ycademy 5
Lightroom Presets Tonight’s Ycademy call and Workshop will deal with Lightroom presets. How to import them and how to use them. To start with we will exercise on a landscape photo. This will give us...
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Digital Photography Ycademy 6
Lightroom Presets for Landscapes Presets area handy start … to create your own presets, adapted to your needs, taste and the purpose of your visual communication. Landscapes are just an example and if...
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New Adobe CS5 Master Collection
New Adobe CS5 Master Collection It’s smashing, exciting and a milestone, the new Adobe CS5 release! no reason to try to describe all the new goodies wrapped up in the new pack, just go and have a look...
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Adobe CS5 Rip Off Pricing
Adobe CS5 Pricing in Europe Why the heck is software more expensive in Europe than in the USA? SOFTware we are talking about. Software you can download or buy on a CD. The cost of copying a CD or...
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Digital Photography Ycademy 7
Working with Lightroom Presets Presets are of great help to adjust images in Lightroom. For easy editing it is necessary to get familiar with terminology and some technical features. Most Lightroom...
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Digital Photography Ycademy 8
Photo Editing vs. Graphic Design Sometimes it is difficult to draw a clear line between photo editing and graphic design or editing. The present Ycademy Sessions deal with Photo Editing and the primary...
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Digital Photography Ycademy 9
Portraits and Macro or The Magic of Depth of Field At the beginning, many photographers struggle with the concept of aperture and depth of field. I remember back in the 60ies when my dad ciselled the...
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Digital Photography Ycademy 10
Portrait Shooting Based on Digital Photography Ycademy 9 we are able to plan our pictures depth of field. The only remaining problem is: you may have a camera which does not allow for A settings...
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Digital Photography Ycademy 14
More Lightroom Presets: The 70s Back in fashion, the 70s have also their photographic face. If you are of my generation or older, you remember the 70s quite well. Point and Shoot photography with...
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Digital Photography Ycademy 15
Let your Zoom tell the Story Today a simple exercise with your Zoom. The recommendation is to use only optical zoom as the digital zoom chips away loads of data and because the cropping tools in...
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Watermark and Copyright with Photoshop CS4
Watermark and Copyright with Photoshop CS4 A small but important task for all creative minds: protect your work! Even considering that in certain countries, such as the USA, your images are...
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5 Tips to take Pictures of Cars
5 Tips to take Pictures of Cars When you take shots of a car it’s like taking pictures of anything: if you like cars, you will probably do better. A car lover will see these details and lines, a simple...
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Digital Portrait Photography
Digital Portrait Photography Ycademy A specialty in Digital Photography is Portrait Photography. After our Digital Photography Seminar in April we will deal this week with Digital Portrait Photography...
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Jean Francois Rauzier Hyperphotography
Jean Francois Rauzier Hyper Photography French artist and by now photographer Jean Francois Rauzier has created the term of Hyperphoto to define his creations where large photos are composed of 600 to...
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Digital Photography Monochrome
Monochrome Website Backgrounds Semiomantics Evolution and Evo2 websites are media driven. Background images vitalize the sites. In order to keep a homogeneous appearance and to manage contrasts with...
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Ycademy Online Seminar July 2010 httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGPvafADB8s Media Production Basics for Web Designers and Website Developers The Ycademy Online Seminar in July 2010 is unique in as...
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Clacton Airshow 2010 Images
Clacton Airshow 2010 Images The Clacton Airshow 2010 attracts again loads of spectators and hobby as well as professional photographers. Taking a picture is one thing, getting it to the top of Google...
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HDR Imaging with Lightroom 3
Testing HDR Imaging with Lightroom 3 High Dynamic Range Imaging (HDR) is a ” set of techniques that allow a greater dynamic range of luminances between the lightest and darkest areas of an image than...
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Photo Editing 2
Calibrate and recover a Maximum of Data The purpose of this exercise is not to reach a final result but to prepare the image for editing and post-editing. When calibrating, we try to correct systematic...
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Photo Editing in 3 Steps
Smart Editing Digital Photos At our recent calls we have been trying to crystallize a smart way to quickly edit digital photos. This post will resume the 3 steps we are following. 1. Camera Calibration...
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Photo Editing Exercise
Today’s Call: We edit a Photo To make things more transparent we will edit a photo step by step during tonight’s call. In fact we will all edit the same photo. Zo has sent in a Picture, the kind you...
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Photo Editing Exercise
Where is the Truth and what’s the Story Editing a Photo has basically two aspects: Technical editing which consists in applying calibration and recovering a maximum of data from the image. Tell your...
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How to Publish Digital Photos
Digital Photography and WordPress “How to Edit and Publish Digital Photos” is the focus of the Ycademy Online Seminar in July. 1. How to Edit Digital Photos Taking photos has become a relatively easy...
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Super Yacht Octopus
Paul G.Allen parking his Octopus in Vouliagmeni This morning, Paul G.Allan’s Super Yacht, the Octopus was parked in the nice bay of Vouliagmeni. The Co-Founder of Microsoft obviously knows where the...
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Photography: How to take Sunset Photos
The impact of the number of focus/metering points Zoom and Vertical angle influence Color Range To illustrate yesterday’s training, here are 3 pictures I just shot out of the window with a point and...
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How to shoot the Moon with a Point and Shoot Camera
Vouliagmeni Moon Photo with Point and Shoot Camera Believe it or not, it is possible to shoot the Moon with an average point and shoot camera. In fact, for as long as you dispose of a reasonable...
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