Sunday, July 12, 2009

Two useful photo tutorials

CreativePro.com:
Sharpening is a critical step in digital imaging, yet few of us are satisfied with the results. Using research he conducted for a commercial sharpening product, Bruce Fraser argues for a new approach to sharpening that's based on three imaging phases: capture, creative, and output.
ACDSee Pro Blog:

White balance is the black sheep of the family when it comes to ensuring your digital shoot looks its best in variable light. It’s so easy to focus on subject matter, exposure, and composition and then, almost as an afterthought, realize that “Oh yeah, white balance – well, I guess I’ll just leave it on the ‘auto’ setting.”

I can’t tell you how many times this has happened to me, and, to be honest, there’s a good reason for it. Unlike bad composition, the wrong ISO setting, or depth of field that’s too narrow, white balance is something that I really can fix quite easily in post-processing—especially with the tools ACDSee Pro provides.