Printing digital photographs or making photo books becomes more and more popular, whether it’s a gift for good friends, a presentation of your work or prints for an exhibition.

Most of the labs and printing plants have automated processes for printing, but these processes need the right “input”, that means, your files should meet some requirements, such as resolution and colorspace. Modern machines can fix some issues with the resolution and colorspace but in the end Read the rest of this entry »

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Well, it happens very often that you take some cool photographs and they look cool in your camera display and when you’re back home and look at them on your screen, they’re pretty flat and not so vibrant. In the next steps I’ll show you how you can spice up such an image.

The work mentioned below can be done with any image editing software which supports layer techniques and layer blending modes. Adobe Photoshop is my choice but you can do this with Gimp or PaintShop Pro as well. Please keep in mind that in Gimp or PaintShop Pro the blending modes have different names. Please consult your manual or grab the internet for appropriate instructions.

Note: click on the thumbnails to get full size images (lightbox)

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Today we start with a tutorial to a composite image in „Sin City“ style.
You will find below all the steps I did to achieve the results shown here or here.

All steps shown below do not require any special 3rd party filters or other gimmicks, just the built-in features delivered with Adobe Photoshop and an intermediate level of knowledge about using Adobe Photoshop.

Note: click on the thumbnails to get full size images (lightbox)

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The TIPA and BIPP Awards winner Hahnemühle FineArt announces the launch of Digital Fine Art Baryta paper for autumn 2007.
As a traditional artist’s paper the “FineArt Baryta 325” will combine an ultra smooth surface with an original Baryta finish. The digital Baryta paper has Hahnemuhle’s unique “touch and feel” experience and is a premium replacement for traditional Baryta papers from analogue laboratories. The new paper contains barium sulphate in the coating that enhances the typical reflecting gloss, high dmax, large colour gamut and sharp image definition of a Baryta paper.

Hahnemühle will showcase first samples of “FineArt Baryta 325”, made from 100% alpha cellulose with an ultra smooth surface and a grammage of 325 gsm, at upcoming international photo shows: Sonimagphoto in Barcelona, Salon de la Photo in Paris, Imaging Expo in Shanghai and PhotoPlus International in New York.

Market launch is set for autumn 2007. YAY! :-)

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