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Links for 2011-01-02

January 2, 2011 by Mike Cohen

Links for 2011-01-02:

On entre OK; On sort, KO! Franco & the All Powerful OK Jazz | MetaFilter – When he was seven years old, Francois Luambo Makiadi built his own guitar. He would become one of the titans of 20th Century African music, Le Grande Maitre of the All Powerful Orchestre Kinois Jazz.
Franco and his band Tout Puissant OK Jazz were the foremost practitioners (and transformers) of rumba Congolaise, arguably the most popular music in Africa, but Franco is still largely unknown in the US and non-francophone Europe, even among aficionados of "world music." He barely toured the US, never sang in English and rarely adapted his music to international tastes, in part a reflection of his agreement with the government policy of Authenticitie.
Guerrilla Business Tactics for Indies [Shane Crawford, Blue Lightning Labs] –
The Top 50 Best Photoshop Tutorials from 2010 | CreativeFan –

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Links for 08-09-08

August 9, 2008 by Mike Cohen

Links for 08-09-08:

Tutorials :: Photoshop at Imaging Insider – Using adjustment layers, removing wrinkles, and turning images into winter scenes.
PHOTOSHOP : Simple Tutorial on “Retouching an Image” – Demonstrating various photoshop techniques for retouching images.
Shifting Mind » Postalicious – Postalicious is a WordPress plugin that automatically posts your delicious, ma.gnolia, Google Reader, Reddit, or Yahoo Pipes bookmarks to your blog.

Photoshop trick of the day

April 10, 2008 by Mike Cohen

You’ve probably seen photos where most of it is black & white with one bit colorized. If you have a photo with a strong contrast between subject and background, it’s pretty easy to do in Photoshop.

Earlier today I took this picture of roses blooming in my neighbor’s garden. I used the largest aperture for my lens (F5.6) to bring out the subject and blur the background slightly.

Since there was a pretty strong contrast between the flowers and the background, it was pretty easy to use Photoshop’s color range selection tool to select the flowers only. I then inverted the selection and made an adjustment layer based on the selection. In the adjustment layer, I used hue/saturation to desaturate it and darken it slightly.

Here’s the final result.

Aging Photos

April 8, 2008 by Mike Cohen

I really like the aged photo effect you can create at this Japanese website, so I attempted to duplicate the effect in Photoshop. These pictures I took in San Francisco last year seemed to be a good subject.

For my first attempt, I used the Aperture 2.1’s sepia tone & vignette effects and then used Photoshop’s film grain filter. The result was a little too bright and didn’t really look aged enough.

Finally, I got an effect I really like with a few Photoshop actions. I used the Sepia Tone Grayscale action, the Spatter Frame action, and the add noise filter.

Here’s the original version of the second photo.