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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
There is a new version 4 of Artweaver available and this is important for a number of reasons. First, as one of the group of free PC photo editors, Artweaver like the others continues to upgrade and improve on a timely basis. Second, Artweaver is a Photoshop clone which provides basic color adjustment, masking+selection and layering …