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Skin Smoothing in Camera Raw

Posted by: Veronica Lynne on: 13 June 2010

Smooth, flawless-like skin can make or break a portrait. You can quickly make any skin look creamy soft by tapping the K key in Adobe Camera Raw 5 which will bring up the Adjustment Brush. Then set the clarity slicer to ~40 to start with. Brush over the skin you want to smooth and step [...]

Beauty Box Photo — Skin Retouching Software

Posted by: Veronica Lynne on: 5 June 2010

Digital Anarchy, a leading provider of cost-effective software for photographers and digital artists, today announced their new Beauty Box Photo skin retouching software. The plugin provides an automatic, easy, and inexpensive way of smoothing skin and removing blemishes in photographs. Beauty Box Photo 1.0 is fully compatible with Adobe Photoshop CS5 and earlier versions of [...]

The Ace in The Hole For Professional Photographers

Posted by: Veronica Lynne on: 26 May 2010

Yes, many professional photographers have seen a major downturn in business as digital enables even rank amateurs to capture some pretty good pictures.  Some disenchanted professionals may even feel that it’s all over for the professional photographer.  They are wrong! They must not know about our ace in the hole: the simple fact that people [...]

Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize

Posted by: Veronica Lynne on: 21 May 2010

Via the National Portrait Gallery: Submissions are now being invited for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2010, ‘the leading international photographic portrait competition’, which celebrates and promotes the very best in contemporary portrait photography. Entry is open to photographers from around the world, aged 18 and over. Organised by the National Portrait Gallery, the [...]

Lessons Learned During a First Portrait Photoshoot

Posted by: Veronica Lynne on: 17 May 2010

We all have to start somewhere. Right? Do you recall the first time you ventured outside of your comfort zone and began snapping photos in a totally different genre. Aaron Meyers is a guest contributor over on dPS and has recently ventured outside of the comfort zone. Aaron shares with readers 8 lessons learned from [...]


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