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Artisan du chocolat photographs
Delighted to be working with Artisan du chocolat – check out the front page of their web-site to see my images and their amazing chocolates! http://artisanduchocolat.com/
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Front page image on Photographers Direct
Extremely pleased to have one of my portraits displayed on the front page of the Photographers Direct Web-site today….. http://www.photographersdirect.com/ If you are after a stock photo then this is a great place to look. Professional images from professional photographers. … Continue reading
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Ashford Arts and Technology Festival details
Looking forward to attending the Ashford Arts and Technology Festival in September along with Ashford Photographic Society – Pop the date in your diary now – it will be an annual event and one not to be missed – see … Continue reading
Keeping up to date with my activities on Facebook
If you are a fan of facebook why not check out my page here www.facebook.com/GalileoSolutions. It will feature some of my recent work and I’m hoping to add some more tips and techniques soon….
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Making the most of moody skies
Last week when I was in Aberystwyth with hubby Gordon and daughter (who was Uni visiting) I had a 1½ window to do some photography one morning. Not perhaps the best time between 10.30 am and noon but better on … Continue reading
Byte order in Photoshop CS6
Since getting CS6 one of the things that puzzled me when saving Tiff files was the default setting itself to the Macintosh instead of IBM PC for the byte order. I have a PC so naturally assumed that I should … Continue reading
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Photographing chocolate today – a dream commission!
Starting work with a new Company today photographing some amazing chocolate – watch this space
An easy way to move layers in Photoshop
If you’ve ever tried dragging layers up and down one place you know what it’s like – sometimes they don’t move at all and at other times they move up or down two layers instead of one! Well here is … Continue reading
Fine Touch: Photoshop plug-in for fine-artistic effect
One of my favourite suppliers of plug-ins – Redfield have given us all another freebie to experiment with and it’s well worth a go. Click here to take a look at the styles available and to download the plug-in. Experiment and enjoy. … Continue reading
A quick Photoshop tip – how to view only the background layer
Ever got frustrated when you’ve been working in Photoshop having produced a multi-layered file and want to do a quick check to see what your original background layer looked like without having to click on each eye to turn off … Continue reading
Top Ten Photoshop tips
You’ve read Martin’s Top Ten Photography tips and here is my Photoshop Top Ten. 1. PANIC NOT Don’t be afraid of the program! At first sight mild panic is often followed by clicking the little red cross in top right … Continue reading
New Topaz Star plug-in just out
Introduction Here at Galileo we are great fans of the Topaz range of plug-ins (our favourite being the “Adjust” variant which is brilliant for HDR effects and all manner of other lighting effects, detail control and so much more) Anyway, … Continue reading
Get Creative with type in CS5!
Continuing our theme of creative type ….. In my previous blog I showed you how to create type filled with an image and promised I would continue with the next step of adding further enhancements such as a stroke (key … Continue reading
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Tagged bevels, creative, CS5, embossing, photoshop, stroke, text, type
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How to fill type with an image in Adobe Photoshop CS5
Introduction If you have checked out our home page you will notice that our New Year message is type that has been filled with an image. The process to create this is fairly easy: Simply apply a clipping mask (for … Continue reading
Photoshop keyboard shortcuts for Windows
If you would like to save time in your Photoshop workflow then please read on……. When I first started using Photoshop many years ago my father was constantly nagging me to try and use shortcuts. I rarely did and still … Continue reading
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How to make a signature brush in Photoshop
Introduction If you are posting images onto the web you may wish to add a personal signature/watermark that you can add to all your images. The best way to achieve this is by making a specific signature brush in photoshop. … Continue reading