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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...

Survival Tips From Hanson Fong

Posted by Steve Herzberg on Jan 16, 2010 in Survival Stories | 6 comments

Nowhere is the pressure of competition greater than in the world of wedding photography. So, I turned to one of the world’s best known and most successful wedding photographers, my friend Hanson Fong, for answers to the question “How can wedding photographers survive in this economy and in this...

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...