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Faking DOF with Adobe Photoshop
A quick tip to enhance digital images
by Stephen Schleicher

Digital cameras are great, but sometimes they are just impossible to use to get a decent Depth of Field. In this quick tutorial, you’ll use Adobe Photoshop to tweak those digital images.
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Creating a Bloom Effect with Adobe Photoshop
By Stephen Schleicher

Want to make you rendered images pop?  Here is a really quick tutorial on how you can apply a bloom to your final image, without spending the time doing it during the render process.
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November 12, 2004
Instant Web Gallery
Adobe Photoshop Action
by Stephen Schleicher

Whenever I get a new version of software, I usually check out the big new features and then get to work using the application.  This means there are a number of new feature step children I have forgotten about until I make a discovery late one night.  Such is the case with Photoshop ’s Web Photo Gallery feature.
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July 11, 2005
Photoshop Montage
Using Photomerge to create photo montages
By Stephen Schleicher

If you are using Adobe Photoshop CS2, chances are you didn’t realize there was a handy feature to automatically stitch your panoramic images together.  What you may not realize is you can also use this feature to create a photo montage.
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June 23, 2006
HDRI With Adobe Photoshop CS2
Camera Raw and script make it a snap
By Stephen Schleicher

For anyone doing 3D work or compositing for film, using 32-bit images for light probes and exact light interactions is vital.  The ability to create HDR images has been somewhat difficult to achieve with some other software out there, but with Adobe Photoshop CS2 it’s as simple as 1, 2, 3. 
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