Digital Camera Exposes Original Paintings

Digital cameras have come a long way in the past ten years. The quality of the pictures continue to improve. The number of megapixels continues to rise. There is a digital camera today that is truly mind-blowing. It shoots at 240 megapixels.

This camera was specifically developed to photograph "Old Master" paintings. You can read about how it was used to restore one of Leonardo da Vinci's paintings. The detail was so good that you can actually distinguish da Vinci's fingerprint in the paint!

What is truly cool about this is that the technology allows the painting to be virtually restored to how it originally looked. Colors that have been hidden for years will suddenly emerge. Dirt creating a haze can be removed and none of this poses any danger to the original painting.
You can read even more if you go to Lumiere Technology's Web site.

For example, there is a press release describing the virtual cleaning of the Mona Lisa. If you go to the home page of the site, there is a twelve minute movie showing how the Mona Lisa was photographed and how the technology works.

All in all, it is just fascinating. Check it out.

VerteX - a new way to FLASH!

May 23, 2008 -- Presslite has announced a new product called the VerteX™.

The VerteX™ is a flash attachement that can project diffused and specular light at virtually any angle, in multiple directions simultaneously from a single flash unit. This introduces on-the-go lighting solutions never before possible.
PRESSlite™ will be selling the VerteX™ for $49.95 but is currently offering special discounts of up to 30%. Read more here

Add a Flower background Collage in Photoshop

How to add a flower background collage to your photos in Adobe Photoshop.

Here is a neat tutorial you will get some great tips from.

Check it out here

Add Watermarks to your images with a simple batch action

Learn how to use actions and batch automation to automatically add signatures or watermarks to your images.

Check out the tutorial here

Graduation Brushes for Photoshop

Just in time for some graduations this year!

Scrapbookers, be ready!

This brush set will help... maybe just a little bit.

It’s made up of all kinds of stuff along the whole graduation theme.

Caps and tassles galore, of course.

Some being worn by silhouettes of various graduates (along with the gown, of course!), some being thrown up into the air, some vector-like, some sketchy, etc.

Also includes some class rings (University and High School, along with one generic), some balloons, a few diplomas, etc.

Get them here

The Six Basic Controls in Photoshop

Bring impact to your photographic storytelling...

Jonathan Penney will show you how to use six of the most basic controls in Photoshop to transform your images from ordinary to spectacular.

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7 Reasons to Borrow Grandma’s Egg Timer

7 Reasons to Borrow Grandma’s Egg Timer

If you’ve been looking for the edge in getting your task list done, you should consider investing in a timer. Picking up a timer stands out as the one thing I’ve done that significantly increased my productivity.

What’s so great about a piece of plastic with a couple of wires on the inside? After all, something that you can pick up at the dollar store can’t be a huge influence on our ability to get things done, or we’d all have one already.

It turns out that it isn’t the gadget that really provides the benefit, at least for me: it’s the ability to set firm boundaries on my time . . .

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Free Book - 101 Tips, Tricks & Techniques

Download SitePoint's entire 270 page "Photoshop Anthology: 101 Tips, Tricks & Techniques" book free of charge for the next 30 days.

CLICK HERE

Giveaway expires: Friday June 13th, 2008

Printer in a Bucket???

Canon Introduces SELPHY CP760 and Printer In a Bucket SELPHY CP770

Wednesday,

05/07/08

Canon today introduces a new generation in the continuing evolution of its SELPHY compact photo printer line-up: the essential new SELPHY CP770 portable printer, and its affordable sister model, the SELPHY CP760.

The two models offer a convenient combination of lab-quality photo printing and supreme ease of operation.

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B*Gallery-FREE

B*Gallery is freeware

Cerebrosoft has announced that B*Gallery, their Java-based image publishing application, is now available free of charge with "no strings attached."

B*Gallery was originally launched as shareware in 2003.

B*Gallery is a Linux, Mac OS X and Windows application that makes it easy to create HTML image galleries that can be updated, extended and shared.

Unlike most Web gallery applications that create simple, static galleries, B*Gallery makes it simple to add, update, customize and connect content into meaningful photo albums.

And did I mention it is FREE?

click here for more information or visit their website

Makeup Tips

FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY

Makeup basics for fashion photography...

Have you ever wondered how to get your face "picture perfect" for photos?

Whether for professional sessions or group gatherings, here are a few tips to get your face ready for your closeup!

To read the full article, click here.

NEW free Tutorial for Adobe Camera RAW

• NEW free Tutorial: Powerful color luminance adjustments in Adobe Camera RAW

From David Saffir's Photography and Digital Fine Art Printing Newsletter, May 2008

David is sharing a new, free tutorial on one of the "hidden" tools in Adobe Camera RAW - it is amazingly powerful - you can improve color and dimensionality in your images with a few sliders.

Click here to see the Camera RAW tutorial.

Use Liquify to make 'em smile!

If you have a nice photo of a model, but she or he wasn’t smiling and you want the photo to feature a smiling face, or vice versa, you can use Photoshop to slightly tweak the facial expressions.

The key is to be subtle in your approach, unless you are creating a caricature or cartoon. With the Liquify tool, we can create some subtle changes to model photos that can affect the overall mood of the face and therefore affect the mood of the photo.

Learn how