Tag Archives: Photography
My Cat Has Mono
Monochrome disease, that is. A complicated problem, not simply black and white. When a cat has lost its colors, it might just be good night. My silver tabby cat has more stripes today, thanks to the shadow lines thrown by … Continue reading
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Tagged black and white, cats, monochrome, photo, Photography
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More on Photoshop Style Neural Transfer Filters
[NB: I do not own the copyrights to any of these images.] Getting the results below previously required an expert hand or buying actions. Actions are small programs that perform a number of steps in Photoshop on an image automatically. … Continue reading
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Tagged actions, adjustments, editing photography, editing photoshop, filters, neural filters, Photography, Photoshop, Photoshop CC, saturation
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Primitive Folk Art Made Possible by Photoshop
First time experimenting with Photoshop’s A/I powered style transfer filter. Bottom line? The filter I chose would best work with a landscape since people are more forgiving of an altered landscape than a human face. Still, after endless tweaking and … Continue reading
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Tagged fake Japanese, filters, neural, Photography, Photoshop
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On Colorizing and Different, Not Better
NB: Unknown photographers, various magazines. I do not own the rights to any of these images. Original monotone: Here’s a colorized version produced by Photoshop’s colorize filter. (internal link) Corrected the skin color a bit, that’s all. Comment: I think … Continue reading
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Tagged color correction, glamor photography, Kate Moss, monochrome, Photography, Photoshop, Photoshop CC
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Photoshop’s Smart Portrait Neural Filter
I’ve written on Photoshop’s neural filters before (internal link). Here, the Smart Portrait filter transforms the ever angry and sullen Megan Fox into something less gloomy. The first photo is the original. You can see how overdone the last photo … Continue reading
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Tagged neural filters, Photography, Photoshop
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More Colorizing With Photoshop’s Neural Filter
Adobe recently come out with filters which rely on downloading additional software and then real time processing in the cloud. In other words, for these operations, Photoshop is not a stand alone program but instead relies in part on harnessing … Continue reading
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Tagged monochrome, neural filters, Photography, Photoshop, portraits, still life
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Original Photographs and the Impossibility of Everything Connected to Them
After your article proposal has been accepted your next challenge will be providing photographs to accompany the text. I hope you can take them yourself. The world of Nat Geo doesn’t exist anymore for freelancers. You will not have a … Continue reading
I Know it When I See It
“But to live outside the law, you must be honest.” Bob Dylan United States Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart struggled in 1964 to define pornography in the landmark case of Jacobellis v. Ohio. In his concurring opinion, Stewart wrote, essentially, … Continue reading
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Tagged art, penthouse, photographers, Photography, playboy, pornography, Roversi
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More on Neural Filters
This photo is from the New York Public Library Digital collection. Here’s the original. Here’s what a one click colorization produced in Photoshop. Now, one click on “Auto” using the curve controls for an image. Quite amazing.
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Tagged filters, history, photographs, Photography, Photoshop
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