What makes holiday cooking so special? Fresh herbs! What makes holiday cooking so expensive? All those fresh herbs. You have to buy the whole bunch even if you just need two leaves, so why not spread the wintry wealth with friends and make sweet little herb bundles as party favors or host(ess) gifts?
I think we all know about the controversy surrounding the TSA and their new body scanners that can supposedly see through clothes.
I thought you might appreciate how to make one of these things at home. It is very technical, but what do you expect? If you want to X-ray some of your friends from a distance, that could be a little bit of a problem. It apparently works very well up close.
Spoiler alert: If you were expecting some X-ray-ted body scans at the end, you are not in luck. What you get is some pretty bad jokes.
onOne Software has released Perfect Photo Suite 5.5 for Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and Apple Aperture.
Lightroom has tools for correcting color not just across the entire image but also for correcting individual colors.
This image was captured in New York?s Time Square where the light is unpredictable at best especially at night because of the bright advertisements and neon signs. Because the colors of the lights change constantly it?s impossible to correct the color in camera using its white balance adjustment. Instead this has to be handled in post production.
To start off color correcting an image in Lightroom?s Develop module, open the Basic panel and click the White Balance Selector which is the eyedropper in the top left corner of the panel.
Deselect the Auto Dismiss checkbox on the toolbar so the tool remains visible. Click on the image in a place that should be neutral gray to adjust it. If you don?t get the right correction the first time, click again on a different area of the image until you get an adjustment that looks correct to you. What you?re looking to do at this point is to remove the overall colorcast in the image.
Notice as you hold the White Balance Selector over the image that the Loupe shows a gird of pixels around the area you have the mouse held over and it also shows the relative percentages of red, green and blue in the pixels over which the mouse is hovering. Where the color in an image should be neutral grey, these values should be the same and if they are not, there is a color cast.
When you have a result you like, either return the White Balance Selector to its position in the Basic panel or press Escape.
If some individual colors are still incorrect you can adjust these using the HSL panel. To do this, select HSL and then Saturation and use the Targeted Adjustment Tool to drag on an area of the image downwards to decrease or upwards to increase the color saturation at that point in the image. In this case, the skin needed to be desaturated because of the color of the light reflected on it.
When you have adjusted Saturation, click Luminance and, if necessary use the same Targeted Adjustment tool to increase or decrease the Luminance in areas that are too dark or too light.
For this image I decreased the Saturation and increased the Luminance of the skin tones until I had a result I liked.
Once you?ve fixed the color problems, you can return to the Basic panel and continue to adjust the image using the tools there.
While sites like Times Square will never be an ideal place to capture images you can compensate at some level for poor color using the tools you have at hand in Lightroom.
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Lightroom has tools for correcting color not just across the entire image but also for correcting individual colors.
This image was captured in New York’s Time Square where the light is unpredictable at best especially at night because of the bright advertisements and neon signs. Because the colors of the lights change constantly it’s impossible to correct the color in camera using its white balance adjustment. Instead this has to be handled in post production.
To start off color correcting an image in Lightroom’s Develop module, open the Basic panel and click the White Balance Selector which is the eyedropper in the top left corner of the panel.
Deselect the Auto Dismiss checkbox on the toolbar so the tool remains visible. Click on the image in a place that should be neutral gray to adjust it. If you don’t get the right correction the first time, click again on a different area of the image until you get an adjustment that looks correct to you. What you’re looking to do at this point is to remove the overall colorcast in the image.
Notice as you hold the White Balance Selector over the image that the Loupe shows a gird of pixels around the area you have the mouse held over and it also shows the relative percentages of red, green and blue in the pixels over which the mouse is hovering. Where the color in an image should be neutral grey, these values should be the same and if they are not, there is a color cast.
When you have a result you like, either return the White Balance Selector to its position in the Basic panel or press Escape.
If some individual colors are still incorrect you can adjust these using the HSL panel. To do this, select HSL and then Saturation and use the Targeted Adjustment Tool to drag on an area of the image downwards to decrease or upwards to increase the color saturation at that point in the image. In this case, the skin needed to be desaturated because of the color of the light reflected on it.
When you have adjusted Saturation, click Luminance and, if necessary use the same Targeted Adjustment tool to increase or decrease the Luminance in areas that are too dark or too light.
For this image I decreased the Saturation and increased the Luminance of the skin tones until I had a result I liked.
Once you’ve fixed the color problems, you can return to the Basic panel and continue to adjust the image using the tools there.
While sites like Times Square will never be an ideal place to capture images you can compensate at some level for poor color using the tools you have at hand in Lightroom.
Helen Bradley is a Lifestyle journalist who divides her time between the real and digital worlds, picking the best from both. You can view her site at helenbradley.com. She writes and produces video instruction for Photoshop and digital photography for magazines and online providers world wide. She has also written four books on photo crafts and blogs at Projectwoman.com.
The New-York Historical Society is soliciting digital photographs of contemporary Times Square from West 42nd to 47th Streets at Broadway or Seventh Avenue.
First Rodeo Software has released Face2Face 3D 1.0, billed as the first 3D face swapping and blending app available on iPhone and iPod touch. The app lets you swap and blend faces within your photos by manipulating 3D models of the faces using the touch interface of the iPhone.Unlike traditional 2D methods, which often make it look like a cutout head has been pasted onto a body, Face2Face’s 3D algorithms automatically determine and compensate for the orientation and shapes of the heads. “This allows for faces to be rotated away from the camera, and provides very convincing blends with the user required to position only a few points within the images,” the company said.Face2Face 3D 1.0 is $1.99 and available through the App Store in the Photography category.
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First Rodeo Software releases Face2Face 3D face blending iPhone app
Vancouver based First Rodeo Software today announces Face2Face 3D 1.0, the first 3D face swapping and blending app available on iPhone and iPod touch. The app lets you swap and blend faces within your photos by manipulating 3D models of the faces using the great touch interface available on the iPhone. Face2Face finally makes it easy to create smooth blends between faces, even if they were not directly facing the camera when the photo was taken.
Vancouver, Canada - First Rodeo Software today is pleased to announce the release of Face2Face 3D 1.0, a new face swapping and blending app for iPhone and iPod touch. Requiring minimal user input, the app lets users swap or smoothly blend between pairs of faces in photos. The results are often startling and hilarious.
Unlike traditional 2D methods, which often make it look like a cutout head has been pasted onto a body, Face2Face’s 3D algorithms automatically determine and compensate for the orientation and shapes of the heads. This allows for faces to be rotated away from the camera, and provides very convincing blends with the user required to position only a few points within the images.
The app creates a full 3D model of each face which is fun to play with using the iPhone/iPod touch screen. Users can rotate, translate, and zoom the 3D “masks” to achieve exactly the effect they want with the overlaid face. When the creation is complete, it can be shared via email or Facebook, or saved for later viewing. A short video tutorial is bundled with the app so that users can get fantastic results immediately.
Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod touch
* Requires iOS 3.0 or later
* 16 MB
Pricing and Availability:
Face2Face 3D 1.0 is $1.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Photography category.
Face2Face 3D 1.0: http://www.firstrodeo.ca
Purchase and Download: http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/face2face-3d/id404882288
YouTube Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-E1GKoU-E
Screenshots: http://www.firstrodeo.ca/gallery.html
App Icon: http://www.firstrodeo.ca/PR/Face2Face3D/Icon.png
First Rodeo Software is a 2-person company based in Vancouver, BC, Canada, specializing in advanced image processing and visualization. Copyright (C) 2010 First Rodeo Software. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.
