January 29, 2010 at 8:38 In celebration of iStockphoto's 10th year in business we're launching a new photography competition, celebrating Britain in 2010. There are four categories, each offering a £500 prize – plus a grand prize of £1,500 for the best overall image. What are you waiting for? It's time to get snapping ...
contest, istockphoto in Announcement October 12, 2009 at 20:11 Are you lacking a few marbles, or are you just plain loco? You must be plain crazy and have a ginormous photographic passion to want to hold your own Minilypse. C’mon, how hard could it be? All you have to do is find some models and organize a few locations, right? Well in theory, yes. But like a fancy sports car, there is more to the beast than the design. There is that thing called the engine and its hundreds of moving parts that work in unison to make the thing purr and blow aerodynamically down the road. To hold a minilypse in your area is truly a noble endeavor — and if you put your shoes on the right feet, it may just be a success. I have been crazy enough to spearhead four Minilypses, and to be honest, I can’t get enough of them (RedRockalypse5 to be held in April 2010).
event, istockphoto, lypse in Events, Resources October 11, 2009 at 5:51 RC from Layers TV drops in at the Dollhouse Party
dollhouse, istockphoto, napp, photoshop world in Events, Interviews October 11, 2009 at 5:43 From: Contact Sheet, October 1, 2009
Safe Sharpening
To sharpen your image non-destructively, open it and choose Filter > Convert for Smart Filters, then choose Filter > Sharpen > Unsharp Mask. Enter the desired settings, press OK, and paint with black inside the Smart Filter mask to hide the sharpening (it's the big white thumbnail below your image in the Layers panel). To keep your colors from shifting, open the filter's Blending Options by clicking the tiny icon to the right of the Unsharp Mask layer. In the resulting dialog box, change the mode to Luminosity.
Lesa Snider (Evangelesa), founder of GraphicReporter.com, is iStockphoto's Chief Evangelist and the author of Photoshop CS4: The Missing Manual.
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