Here’s a cool plugin from Red Paw Media called Bleach Bypass. In the past with film processing, bleach bypassing involved the partial or complete skipping of the bleaching stage during the processing of a colour film, resulting in a contrasty image with muted colours. This is a great little plugin which mimics the […]

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Sometimes it’s nice to go out with some friends and just have some fun shooting photos. On this day, I set out to mindfully shoot photos which I planned to post-process using an extreme vignetting effect. Vignetting is a natural effect which can occur when shooting with certain lenses at wide apertures. Sometimes, rather than […]

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Here’s a really cool free plugin from Auto FX Software called “Dreamy Photo”, which does just what it says; it turns your image into a “dreamy” looking photo! Since it’s coming from the fine folks at Auto FX Software, you can be assured of a high quality free plugin, with lots of sliders to play […]

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Due to an overwhelming amount of requests on recommendations for books on HDR Photography and techniques, I have put together the following list of available books on HDR. The following books are all available on sale through our affiliate arrangement with Amazon, at prices below retail! If you are interested in learning more about HDR […]

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Starting today, we’re going to be taking our blog in a new direction. Each day of the week we’ll have something new and exciting to read about, download, or learn from! Today, we’ll be kicking off the friday installment by highlighting some of the best free plugins for Photoshop.

virtualPhotographer by OptikVerve Labs has got to […]

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PhotographyBB’s “Photoshop Help On Demand” has now been in service for 3 weeks, and we’re getting lots of great help requests, and help from members. We’ve even started to see some help requests from Elements users, which is great also. If you have any projects or questions (Photoshop or Elements related) that you need […]

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Tether your DSLR camera to your notebook for live shoots in Adobe’s Photoshop Lightroom
A lot of photographers have had two burning questions on their minds. 1) Can I tether my digital SLR camera to my notebook? and 2) Can I get it working with Lightroom? We are pleased to say a resounding YES to both […]

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PhotographyBB Special on “Layers” by Matt Kloskowski
We’ve said it before, over and over, if you are going to get a book on Photoshop, then is for you! Have a look at Matt’s video to see why Layers is quickly becoming the most popular Photoshop training tool. Matt breaks down his tutorials to cover only […]

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PhotographyBB Releases Oldworld Photograin Action for Photoshop CS, CS2 and CS3.
The Oldworld Photograin action, developed by Dave Seeram, is now available to download from the PhotographyBB Actions page for free.
As with all PhotographyBB Actions, this Action Pack includes 2 versions of this one-click Action: One specifically authored for high-resolution images, and another version for low-resolution […]

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Here are this week’s quick keyboard shortcuts that are especially useful and time saving when using Photoshop:
Increasing/Decreasing Text Size: When using text (make sure your text is selected), you can quickly increase or decrease the text size by using the keyboard shortcut: Command-Shift-< (Mac), or Control-Shift-< (PC) to decrease the text size by one point, […]

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