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Photoshop Action (with Color Efex Pro 4)
If you have Color Efex Pro 4 from Nik Software installed on Photoshop, you’ll know it has some pretty amazing features. Of the many filters and recipes that are in Color Efex Pro, I really love the Image Borders. In fact I like...
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Wireless Flora Lightbank ~ Review
Back in September 2011 I reviewed the Flora Light Bank from Linco and found them to be excellent for video work and not so bad for photography too. Now the people at Linco have come up with a new wireless version. So lets find ...
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January Photo Challenge
January here in the UK is often cold and wet so to make sure my photography doesn’t dry up I’ll often set myself a photographic challenge. So now it’s your chance to get involved and take up my January Photo Challenge. The them...
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WhiBal Grey card ~ Review
When it comes to getting very accurate colours in your photos, you’ll need to start with a known colour reference. That’s where a grey card comes into it’s own. I’ve used several grey cards in recent years, but the WhiBal from ...
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Christmas Photoshop Quiz
If like me you love a good quiz at Christmas then here’s 10 questions that will put your Photoshop knowledge to the test. They range from quite easy to very tricky and all the answers are multiple choice. Getting the answer to ...
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Welcome to Facebook
Casual visitors to my Facebook page may notice something a little different right now. A few days ago I added a welcome page to my facebook site. If you’re not “liked” my page this is where you’ll land but if you have “liked” t...
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Shutter Failure
They say nothing lasts forever and so it is for my much loved Canon 40D. It’s with much sadness that I have to report that my trusty war horse has taken it’s last shot. Over the past 4 years my Canon 40D has been in my camera b...
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Building a Photoshop Power PC – Part 3
This is the third and final part of my PC build (subject to some horrible disaster befalling my PC) so if you missed part 1 in which I listed the parts I used or part 2 which I described my experience of the build, then it migh...
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Lexar USB 3 Card Reader ~ Review
Hopefully every photographer reading this already knows that the best and fastest way to get your images from a memory card to your computer is via a card reader. For the past few years I’ve been using either the internal card ...
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All New RAW to the Core T-Shirts
The original RAW to the Core T-shirts have been around for less then a year, but they’ve proved incredibly popular. In fact we expanded the first order by adding two extra colours and sizes, many of which have now totally sold ...