Tag Archive: Gaussian

May 10 2013

Creative Camera Raw: Faking Neutral Density with Clarity

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Damien Parker, a friend of mine from Australia, asked me about faking Neutral Density Filters in post processing.  At the time I was kind of stumped, but gave him a quick answer, “Try using masks and Gaussian Blur in PS”.  However, his question planted the seed in my brain, and I was hooked on finding …

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Sep 24 2012

Shooting Into The Sun

Some people say you shouldn’t shoot into the sun, however, I think you can get interesting results sometimes.  The sun flare provided by the sun can be a cool effect.  I really like it on the image below.  I could have easily avoided the sun flare by adjusting my angle, but the flare really gave …

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Apr 06 2012

Photoshop CS 5: Selective Focusing

      Last week I showed how to Selectively Blur an area of your photo using Adobe Photoshop CS 6 Beta, but did you know you can do this in past versions of Photoshop very easily, and with even more control?  It is pretty simple actually and uses many techniques you already know, such …

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