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Lightroom 3 Print Module Tips – Julianne Kost


Julieanne Kost focuses on little known features and helpful hints for making the most out of the Lightroom Print Module. Learn how to create a template for posting images to your blog using the print to JPEG option, apply custom edge effects and backgrounds using Identity Plates, screen back images using the Tone Curve, and more!
View more Lightroom videos here.
Learn more in my digital photography and digital printing workshops.
 
 

Playing For Change – 9/17/11



This is inspiring!
Find out more about Playing For Change here.
Listen to videos here.
The Inspiration
Playing for Change is a multimedia movement created to inspire, connect, and bring peace to the world through music. The idea for this project arose from a common belief that music has the power to break down boundaries and overcome distances between people. No matter whether people come from different geographic, political, economic, spiritual or ideological backgrounds, music has the universal power to transcend and unite us as one human race. And with this truth firmly fixed in our minds, we set out to share it with the world.
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20 Questions With Photographer Eric Meola

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Eric Meola provides quick candid answers to 20 questions.
What’s the most useful photographic mantra?
Never stop looking.

What’s the thing you most hope to accomplish?
Making someone else excited about photography.
If you had to do it all over again, what would you change?
I’d shoot a lot more – a LOT more.
Read the rest of his answers here.
Find out more about Eric Meola here.
Visit Eric Meola’s blog Seeing In Color here.
Find out about our workshops in Antarctica and Greenland here.
 
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Read more Photographer’s Q&A’s here.
 

Top 5 Ways To Add Color To B&W


Colorless black-and-white images are beautiful, but sometimes it’s nice to add a little bit of tone. By adding color to your b&w photos, you can enhance their expressive qualities.

These days, you can add color to your black-and-white digital images in virtually unlimited ways. Sure, the choices before you can be dizzying. Fortunately the techniques are simple, and the experimentation process for determining which tone qualities work with specific images is easy and fun. Here are five go-to ways for bringing color back into monochrome images in Adobe Photoshop.

1 Colorize With Hue/Saturation

2 Split Tone With Curves

3 Restore A Percentage Of Original Color

4 Add Color By Hand

5 Selectively Tone With Masks

 

For all the details visit PopPhoto.com.

Read more in my Black & White lessons.
Learn more in my digital photography and digital printing workshops.

24 Hours Of Climate Reality


“What can change in a day? Everything. On September 14, the world will focus its attention on the truth about the climate crisis. For 24 hours, we will all live in reality. Pick a faraway place or a city near you. Make it yours for one day. We’re hitting every time zone — but only once. 7 p.m. in your time zone. Choose a location and get involved.
Climate Reality hosts an amazing 24 hour event. 24 presenters. 24 time zones. 13 languages. 1 message.”
Find more information on Climate Reality here.