Photo Finishing manipulations have been used from the earliest days of photography. No less a photographer than Matthew Brady in 1860 altered a portrait of Abraham Lincoln by adding Lincoln’s head to the body of political rival, Senator John C Calhoun of South Carolina: The Daily Show crew would be proud & applaud M. Brady By the late […]
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This year, Spring has been late and then sparing in time and warmth in the Northumberland Hills of Eastern Ontario. It is already the second week of May and the tulips and daffodils are just appearing while lilacs, magnolia, iris and spirea will definitely be late. So instead of using the usual Spring blooms in our background
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In November of last year, thePhotofinishes looked at Corel Painter Lite as a possible economic version[$50 vs $300] of full Corel Painter X3. But what we discovered was a program that was so severely stripped of painting features it was really only good as a Paint program with a reasonable set of brushes and layering
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Despite having 2 PhotoBlogs, Picsof Canada and PixofToronto [and a few defunct one], this photobug is also an avid PhotoAlbum user of such services as Flickr.com, Fotki.com and Facebook. But over the past year I have found myself migrating to the Photo Albums on Google Plus. Here are 5 reasons why and then 3
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The screenshot above is appropriate bcause Corel Painter Lite is ripped out of Corel Painter. Corel has stripped away Painter’s Clone, Trace, AutoPlay and most of the Effect commands but has left in 15 brushes including Acrylics, Airbrush, Digital Watercolor, Impasto, chalks, pastels among others. Their are 7-10 presets for each brush and you can
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Adobe Flash and PDF continue to thrive despite all the efforts of Steve Jobs and Apple in the case of Flash plus Google and Microsoft in the case of PDFs. Microsoft’s first incarnation of Metro was an XML-based alternative to the PDF format spawned in 2004-5 and then retired in 2008-2009. Google would like to
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Dirty Dog Photos has a rough and tumble meaning – something that you might see on the mean streets of Toronto [or City Hall]. But they actually turn up on Flickr, Facebook, Google Plus albums, and even on commercial websites. Dirty Dogs are photos that are in focus but off on exposure or tinting or
Digital Photography has become one of the most popular leisure activities. One can literally see its cornucopia like flow on social media sites like Facebook, Google+, Instagram and Pinterest. For example, Instagram alone gets over 5 million image uploads per day. Web images are key to story telling on diverse sites like NYTimes, Sports Illustrated,
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