Posted by David Peterson on 12 May 2008 as Composition, Image Editing, Tips
In my very first tip, I recommend moving closer to your subject. Almost any shot will look better if you take two or three steps closer.
It works especially well on faces because when you fill the frame with your subject’s face, there is less clutter to draw the viewer’s eye away from the pleasing face.
Posted by David Peterson on 20 Oct 2007 as Image Editing, News, Online
I’ve long been a fan of Picnik - a free online image editing program. In some great news today, Picnik has been announced as the long-awaited Flickr photo editing software.
Posted by David Peterson on 30 Aug 2007 as General, Image Editing
Every year or so, something radically new invades our digital photography world. I predict this technique for image resizing will be this year’s contribution.
Until now, if you wanted to resize a photo, you could either resize the whole image, or crop parts of it. This means you either lose detail of your subjects, or lose [...]
Posted by David Peterson on 04 Mar 2007 as Image Editing, News
Well, it’s not Photoshop CS for free, but Adobe plans to release a cut down version of Photoshop as an online web application. The application will be ad supported, so free to use.
Posted by David Peterson on 18 Feb 2007 as Image Editing, News
Picnik is a new online image editing program.
It handles all the image modification operations that you would expect - rotation, cropping, brightness/contrast, white balance, and sharpening. Most of these have ‘auto fix’ buttons where Picnik will make the change for you to the best settings.
You can transfer images from your computer, your webcam, a website [...]