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How-to Photoshop: Isolation cleaning stray areas of background white by Adeptris

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:07:00 GMT

I have been asked by several people how-to do a Photoshop Isolation over white effect, to help stop QA rejections for stray Isolation.

We took an image in a studio with a set of cheap studio lights from EBay, the backdrop was just a king-sized white flat sheet, hanging from the wall and draped over a chair.

Keywording Plug-In Tool for Photoshop by Adeptris

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:33:00 GMT

I was looking at Image keyword tools, this Photoshop plug-in that helps photographers to add metadata keywords to their images efficiently and easily. Main tools: spell checker, correction suggestions, synonyms suggestions, sorting, deleting duplicate, and counting. Saving groups of words and complete Templates of Meta-data.

The plug-in has no limitations and is from 2006, I tried to visit the website for Deep Perspective but the link was not valid, but I thought it may be worth looking at the tool anyway.

Are we thinking about diversity enough when doing a family style shoot? by Adeptris

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:03:00 GMT

I was reading a post on “Cultural Diversity, What is Needed in Imaging?” over on the Micro Stock Group forum, quite a lively topic with some good replies.

I posted a couple of replies myself and started to think ”just how diverse in other areas are the stock sites already?”, as we tend to have preconceptions and visual stereotypes, many images I see like this ones here are departmental, as they fit nicely into subconscious boxes, the ones that spring to mind are the many family images which are mostly mum, dad, kids and grandparents, I then considered how many of these typical families I know myself and there are not that many, so what if I had to write an article with a single parent and child as the focus, how diverse is the selection of images and what images to use?