Everyone loves customizing new toys and making wallpapers for your phone is probably one of the easier ways to do it (a lot easier, for example, than trying to find an inexpensive yet good-looking protective case!). I took a selection of images from Project Koru are turned them into three thematic wallpaper sets for my iPhone using this great Photoshop template.
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Ben Long nicely summarises the capabilities of Bridge (included with Photoshop CS3) in the context of dedicated workflow applications like Abobe's Lightroom and Apple's Aperture. The last word? "No piece of software will make you a better photographer... Instead, go out and shoot!". Perhaps too much efficiency could mean missing valuable lessons if not enough time is spent analysing individual images in order to improve capture, composition, and processing technique?
We end this month in New Zealand with a sense of achievement: we walked the Tongariro Crossing without significant pain nor injury. We had good weather and got some great photos of the beautiful volcanic landscape. Our 18.6 km walk began early morning in the shadow of Mt. Doom, as Ngauruhoe is now popularly known following its role in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings. In the bright sunlight at altitude, capturing well-exposed images of the dark landscape required extra care to avoid blown highlights.
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Every time you swap a lens you risk dust getting inside the body of your SLR. It can settle in front of the sensor and appear in every image that you take thereafter as an indistinct spot (dust on the lens apparently makes for a more defined dirty spec, although it depends on aperture). While many of these artifacts can be effectively dealt with using Photoshop's invaluable healing brush (working at 100% image size), sometimes they fall on an image zone that makes correction difficult. At some point they become to numerous to ignore; that's when I decided to get some CCD housekeeping organized.
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For those who don't know Wellington, New Zealand's capital is located at the bottom of North Island. The central business district sits right on the harbour edge, and is surrounded by green-clad hills upon which the inner suburbs perch. A great view over the city can be had from the lookout on Mt. Victoria; it just asks for a panorama.
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Veerle has posted a great Photoshop tutorial that visually walks you through the process of creating a 3D "page curl" effect—something I've wondered how to achieve for quite a time.
