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Creating a 3D Globe in Photoshop CS4 Extended

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

Note: This technique creates not merely a 3D-like globe, but an actual stereoscopic image when viewed with 3D red and blue glasses.

Using surface textures from NASA and a bump map from another online source, I created a fully rotatable, 3D globe of the Earth in Photoshop CS4 Extended. It can be viewed or lighted from any direction. There is also a separate cloud layer I can turn on, edit, and move around. My master file is a very large image (6000 × 6000 pixels), more than ample to fill a full spread at 300 ppi.

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Editable Fisheye Lens Effect in Photoshop

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

The fisheye lens effect, used judiciously, has great creative uses. Although your best bet is to use an SLR camera with a real fisheye lens, you can achieve a similar effect in Photoshop without such a lens.

Although creating a fisheye lens effect in Photoshop might seem very easy, using the built-in filters such as Spherize, the advantage of the technique I am sharing is that the original image remains fully editable and distortion-free, and any future edits do not require repeating the distortion effects. (more…)

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Rachel Oakes Preston Facelift

Monday, June 29th, 2009

For the “Our Heritage” series I’ve been writing for 3ABN World, I wanted an illustration of Rachel Oakes Preston. Unfortunately, the best I could find was the one shown first, below. I don’t have much experience with traditional art (painting, etc.), so the best I could do was modify the image into what I wanted. The image shown next is the result after retouching in Photoshop.

Rachel Oakes Preston, original image

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Musical Chairs for Board Members (With Photoshop)

Friday, March 27th, 2009

For a magazine project I am working on now, I had to update a photograph of our board members, to reflect changes that have occurred since the original photograph was taken.

The original photo was shot in 2007, I believe. Even then, not all of the then-current board members were available at the time of the photo shoot. I arranged for one of my coworkers, Kenton Rogers, to take one photo without the missing members, who were added later when they were able to come and sit for a photo.

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Moving Subjects Within a Photo

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

Composition is one of the areas that distinguishes experienced photographers from amateurs. Part of learning composition is learning to see a photograph for only what is in the photo itself. In other words, don’t assume the person viewing the photo will understand the bigger picture — the parts of the scene you have cropped out, or the relationship between objects that would be clearer when seen in real life.

Another important part of composition is learning how to honor the subject. Although the background may be really awesome, if the subject is a person, the focus needs to be on them — even if it means cropping part of that oh-so-inspiring background out of the photo.

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