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www.kelbytraining.com — Part 3

Posted by Steve Herzberg on Apr 20, 2010 in Quick Focus | 0 comments

4. From Laurie Excell: Lessons on My Camera and How to Take Care of It When I was an embryonic lawyer, my office had an IBM system that created templates for most legal forms and allowed the secretaries to fill in blanks rather than type long originals; the computer took up a full sized office. Today, my D3...

Protecting Our Work: Watermarking Part II — Batch Processing

Posted by Steve Herzberg on Feb 22, 2010 in Featured Articles | 3 comments

In the last post, we created a “brush” to use when signing or placing a copyright notice on our images. Using the brush, one image at a time, works well. But, when we have a big job, a lot of images we want to protect all at once, it’s not the way to get the job done. That’s where...

onOne Suite 5: Diverse and Powerful Plugins

Posted by Steve Herzberg on Jan 28, 2010 in Quick Focus | 0 comments

With the release of Plug-In Suite 5, onOne has raised their prices — including the discount price they have allowed me to offer my students and readers. Graciously, onOne has allowed me to offer my students and readers the Suite at a heavily discounted price — $379.99. The latest version of...

Protecting Our Work: Watermarking Part I.

Posted by Steve Herzberg on Jan 28, 2010 in Featured Articles | 3 comments

Yes, I know. It’s a crime against art and beauty to put a watermark across model Hai Thi Ngo’s eyes. I had to. The placement was dictated by my site software. But, in some ways, the placement is appropriate; it shows the quandary in which we find ourselves when we take desperate measures to...

Self Assignment: No More Pretty Pictures

Posted by Steve Herzberg on Dec 16, 2009 in Quick Focus | 1 comment

This shoot came from my “Dark Side”. The basic concept was simple — to show that contrary to what glossy magazines and movies may tell us, beauty does not necessarily bring happiness. And, that for some, external beauty can be a trap because it blinds many an eye to the internal picture...