There are three Photoshop Plugin vendors this photofinisher pays attention to: Flaming Pear, Mehdi, and Redfield. Each delivers innovative plugins at scintillating prices. Yet despite their creative plugins there is little overlap. Even better, all three have some great freeware plugins. It is a newly discovered Redfield freeware plugin, Fine Touch, which is worth bringing to […]
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Painting photos has come of age. It got its push with mobile phone photo apps like Instagram, PicMonkey, and Pixlr with their huge set of effects have made painting photos a popular pastime among smartphone users. And as a result, one can see both on online sites like Google Plus and Facebook as well as
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For this photographer and web developer, compression of bitmap images is vital. It was a topic of discussion here before because in web development full width and supersized images are used in sliders, backgrounds, and splash pages all the time. But these large images exact the price of slower load times which is a killer
Just over 5 years ago thePhotoFinishes.com did a review of online color design sites. Ye Editor was astonished to find over 27 sites available for painters, designers and photographers. Then a year ago, a photo colleague pointed out some new sites and said they deserved coverage which these new color sites got here. this last few
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Following the free tutorials of this past Spring, two free Summer PhotoFinishing tutorials at the Quinte West Library near Belleville Ontario will be offered in the first half of July. The tutorials will cover some topics featured recently in thePhotoFinishes posts. Polishing Your Photos Despite the sophistication of digital cameras , it is remarkable the number of photos
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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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Ever since Adobe transitioned to a profit maximizing for itself plan of annual charges for Photoshop and its suite of products, this reviewer has been looking for alternatives to Adobe’s offerings. The reasons are simple: 1)the hefty price increases based on my 4-6 year upgrade cycle; 2)Adobe’s overweaning prescription of how files and resources are
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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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Adobe faced 3 perilous marketing conundrums where almost all its sales options look like Lose-Lose More propositions. The first conundrum is the emergence of Freemium pricing where core app software is given away for free and money is made on add-ons, plugins, plus special editions. Freemium pricing has taken over the mobile world and will
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