Posts Tagged “photoshop”

Experimenting with HDR

0James18th Dec 2009Jim's Stuff, Photos,

HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography is the process of taking a photo using multiple exposure settings, then combining them to give an uber-cool lighting effect.

The problem is, it’s hard to take a photo for HDR if the subject matter moves. But all is not lost, you can fake it with Photoshop as I did in the photo below.

Original image altered to fake the HDR effect

Original image altered to fake the HDR effect


I’ve been having a bit of fun playing around with a bunch of images… and now I can see my photo collection size doubling.

Review of Bokeh Photoshop plugin on Macworld

0James19th May 2009Jim's Stuff

My review of Alien Skin Software’s Bokeh plugin for Adobe Photoshop just went live. Part one is here, and part two here.

Tilt-shift photography with Bokeh plugin

Tilt-shift photography with Bokeh plugin


For digital photographers that don’t have a large budget for specialized lenses, this is a fantastic plugin to simulate tilt-shift photography on existing images (as seen in the image above).