Michael Nielsen on February 6th, 2009

While trying to become a better photographer, one of the skills I need to master is the ability to retouch the pictures afterwards. Inspiration can be found everywhere, on a lot of photographers blogs, and YouTube also has videos describing steps to edit for example the eyes or the skin.
Last week I found a video [...]

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Michael Nielsen on October 29th, 2008

In the previous post I started out with an old JPEG file that had a bad tint, and through Adobe Camera RAW and Photoshop CS4, I managed to get a somewhat decent picture out of it – Not something I would’ve sent to the printer – But if it was a one unique shot, I [...]

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Michael Nielsen on October 29th, 2008

Okay, some of you might not have a camera that is able to save the RAW format, I myself even have a Nikon L11 for the snapshots. And my Sony Ericsson cell phone can’t store the pictures as RAW, only 5 mpix JPEG.
But in case you got RAW capabilities, use it – or as the [...]

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