DIMW - Digital ImageMaker World

Wayne reconsiders some of his recent photographs and explores how they look using a favored technique of his.
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Over on DIMi I have posted a long article discussing some of the issues with working in camera at the time of shooting compared to working later in Photoshop. I’ve also spent some time in the article examining ways to maximise the quality of the image that you get at shooting time.

The article is More on In-camera vs Post-camera Photography

A Series of Articles About the Development of a Photography Business
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It seems certain that any lexicon covering new terminologies introduced within the era of the personal computer would include the word ‘photoshopped’. And I’d estimate that a large proportion of the general public would feel comfortable using it, in order to categorize a photographic image which has been extensively and digitally edited using a PC. It’s often, for example, taken to describe either the inclusion or deletion of an extra figure or subject within a group portrait. While Adobe Systems’ Photoshop® software can indeed be used alone for such image reconstructions, there are nowadays other, alternative digital toolkits which can be applied equally well to such a task.

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A Series of Articles About the Development of a Photography Business
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Since I started out with the detailed planning of my own product line for PhotoArtCanvas, which you may read about in earlier posts here, the O’Reilly computer book juggernaut has published what amounts to a set of three titles which cover the photographic-based art portion of my own interests.

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A Series of Articles About the Development of a Photography Business
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Since posting the introduction to this series, I’ve been busy completing a detailed configuration and design for the PhotoArtCanvas website. Part of that effort has involved actually producing some fully finished products - completed, full-size and mounted prints - such that photography of these can be completed for an online gallery and catalog. Below I’ve included samples from this pre-production exercise, allowing directly for “before-and after” comparisons. Lady before gentleman.

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A Series of Articles About the Development of a Photography Business

To introduce myself first, I’m John Stevenson, of Colorado Springs in the fine state of Colorado in the U.S.A. And Wayne has very kindly decided to let me write some invited contributions to his blog for a while. I’m in the process of going into business, as PhotoArtCanvas (actually - legally - as Photoscena LLC d/b/a PhotoArtCanvas) and that will be what I’ll be writing about here, at weekly intervals or so.

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Below is the latest photomedia piece I have created, called Splintering of Personality, and a series of detail views of small sections of it. The original is quite dark and very large, sized for 2 metre by 2 metre square. It is part of my Road to Elysium series and explores the concept that traumatic events cause the death or splintering off of parts of our selves or souls.

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I’ve just uploaded a tutorial to DIMi that demonstrates one way of using Photoshop and ImageReady to design web pages with rollover buttons. You may find it useful in showing the required steps.