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Bokeh is a photographic term referring to the appearance of out-of-focus areas in an image produced by a camera lens using a shallow depth of field. Different lens bokeh produces different aesthetic qualities in out-of-focus backgrounds, which are often used to reduce distractions and emphasize the primary subject.
How to make that cardboard hood to assist you in making your own custom bokeh when shooting images. More info here >
DIY bokeh from Eirik Solheim on Vimeo.
You’ve seen them before, funny motivational posters that make you ‘ROFL’, ‘LOL’ or erm…. just giggle… yeah well here is your chance to make your own. This easy Photoshop
This is one I created earlier of my partner Zoe.
Credit to Action creator: Bellorinna on DeviantArt
This tutorial will teach you how to use actions in Photoshop
Depending on the action you can achieve results automatically by doing little or nothing yourself. Photoshop comes with a default set of actions that you can start to experiment with but you can download others from the web by performing an appropriate search for them.
To open the actions palette, go to Window and click on Actions or press Alt + F9. This will open a new palette.
Above you can see the Actions palette. Mine doesn’t have the standard set but yours probably will if this is the first time you have opened it.
Actions are organised in folders, each folder can contain multiple actions. To see what’s inside a folder you click on the arrow in front of the folder icon. A list will drop down showing all the Actions.
To execute an Action you must first select it in the list of Actions. Then you click the Play button and the action will be executed. Make sure to use a copy of your image before trying out an Action.
So you have downloaded some new Action sets but now you need to get them into Photoshop
If you want to load Actions you have to click on the little blue round button with the arrow in the Actions palette itself. Now you are shown a drop down menu like the one on the right. From this list select Load Actions.
A navigator window will pop up where you can select the downloaded Actions from the download location. A Photoshop
Once you have down this a new folder will appear in your Actions palette which you can select and use. That’s all folks, enjoy!
Want a powerful font management application that works on both Mac and PC? An app that allows you to manage, store, shop and discover new fonts? A font management app that’s FREE? Then Linotype FontExplorer® X is for you! The PC version has been available for a few years now but the MAC version has just been released this year. I have tested it over several months now on MAC OS X and I’m more than happy to recommend it.
Yahoo! launched this FREE website tool a little over 3 years ago in September 2005, enabling webmasters to explore their own website with data they may have never had access to before. Yahoo! Site Explorer provides information about a site’s visibility in the Yahoo! search engine, what pages have been indexed and which websites are linking to yours.
If you’re not yet familiar with Yahoo! Site Explorer, then I would recommend using it on your web site. It’s a good resource for web site owners to gain insight into their site’s presence in Yahoo!. The tool shows which of the site’s pages are indexed and which pages are linking to the site (inbound links). If you go through the process of verifying that you are the site owner (authentication), then additional information is available, including what subdomains of the site are indexed by Yahoo!, when the Yahoo! web crawler last visited the site, and additional site metadata such as language. Detailed information about Site Explorer can be found in the Yahoo! help area. Note that Yahoo! also recently announced that normal queries on their search engine using ’site:’, ‘link:’, ‘linkdomain:’ will be redirected to the Site Explorer results page.
Website managers should take every opportunity they can to ensure their site content is well represented in the major search engines. Site Explorer is a useful tool that provides insight into a website’s visibility in Yahoo!. Considering the fact that use of Site Explorer is free, it’s well worth the time spent to authenticate your web site with Yahoo! and put this valuable tool to use.
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