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Holiday Video Disasters: Common Issues and How to Solve Them

Best Software Aug 28, 2024

The arrival of summer is often accompanied by cameras ready to capture every special moment of our vacations. However, too often we discover upon returning home that those memories have various types of errors. From videos that won’t play to corrupt files that prevent us from reliving our experiences, it’s…

August 24 Tech news roundup: Windows will remove Control Panel soon, Chrome gets a critical security update, Access Apple Podcasts on any browser

News Aug 24, 2024

Windows 11 Control Panel will be removed soon Microsoft has confirmed it will remove Control Panel from Windows 11. This has been coming for a long time, since 2015 to be precise. A recent update to a document on Microsoft’s website reveals that the legacy app is being deprecated, in…

July 6 Tech news roundup: Netflix is discontinuing its Basic Ad-free plan, Authy suffers another security breach, Google Translate supports 110 new languages

News Jul 6, 2024

Microsoft’s Weather app is displaying more ads Microsoft has made a server-side update to its Weather app. The desktop app, which is pre-installed in Windows 11, now displays multiple advertisements. This is not the first time that the Redmond company has made such a change, it did something similar last…

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12 Ridiculous Photoshop Fails

News Photo and Image Editing February 24, 2015

This week marks the 25th birthday of Photoshop, the Adobe software that was created back in 1988 so that people could enhance their images. Sadly the software has become synonymous with celebrities and fashion houses using it to produce ridiculously tiny waistlines and slim thighs, leading to the inevitable... Read more

How To Use Content Aware Fill in Photoshop

How To Photo and Image Photo and Image Editing February 14, 2015

Introduced in Photoshop CS5, the Content Aware Fill tool is a handy way to remove objects from an image without resorting to fiddling around with the clone stamp tool. With Content Aware Fill, Adobe Photoshop will try its very best to fill any selected area with a best guess at... Read more

How to use Puppet Warp in Photoshop

How To Photo and Image Photo and Image Editing February 13, 2015

Introduced in Adobe Photoshop CS5, the Puppet Warp tool is just one of the many ways you can transform an object, but it’s probably the quickest and easiest path to a slick end result. Unlike the tools that allow you to play with the edges and aspects of an... Read more

How To Look This Good In A Selfie

How To Photo and Image Photo and Image Editing February 1, 2015

Whether you love them or loathe them, it looks as though the selfie is not going away any time soon. They have been criticized for making people narcissistic but is there anything wrong with documenting your life and sharing it with those who love and know you best? That... Read more

Need A Solution For Editing Your Icons? Try IcoFX

Photo and Image Editing Software Reviews January 19, 2015

IcoFX is an all-in-one solution for icon creation, extraction and editing. With a stack of tools and more than 40 effects at your fingertips, there is virtually no limit to the icons that you can create. You can easily convert your favorite images into icons, or icons into images. IcoFX gives... Read more

How To Use Dodge And Burn In Photoshop

How To Photo and Image Photo and Image Editing January 18, 2015

Back in the olden days of photography, when you needed a dark room and trays of exotic chemicals to develop a photograph, rudimentary photo alteration was still going on. The Victorian equivalent of Photoshop was double exposures, aperture techniques, burning and dodging. To burn and dodge was to cover... Read more

Need To Use 2D and 3D Modeling? Try Blender

Photo and Image Editing Software Reviews January 13, 2015

Blender is an integrated application that enables the creation of a broad range of 2D and 3D content. Blender provides a broad spectrum of modeling, texturing, lighting, animation and video post-processing functionality in one package. Through it’s open architecture, Blender provides cross-platform interoperability, extensibility, an incredibly small footprint, and... Read more

Need to Create 3D Models? Try SketchUp Make

Photo and Image Editing Software Reviews December 21, 2014

SketchUp Make is software that you can use to create 3D models of anything you like. SketchUp lets you get started right away. Most people get rolling with SketchUp in just a few minutes. Dozens of video tutorials, an extensive Help Center and a worldwide user community mean that... Read more

Need A Photo Editing Suite? Get PhotoDirector

Photo and Image Editing Software Reviews December 2, 2014

Corel’s PhotoDirector is a complete suite for all your photography needs. The application includes photo management and advanced adjustment & creative editing tools. PhotoDirector’s photo management software will give you the tools that will assist you to rapidly sort through your images and locate the ones you need. PhotoDirector provides... Read more

How to Use the Gradient Editor in Photoshop

How To Photo and Image Photo and Image Editing December 1, 2014

Using gradients of colour in Photoshop often produces very pleasing, professional results, mainly because producing nice smooth transitions between the colours is something a digital platform does very well. The Gradient Fill Tool in Photoshop, located on the left hand sidebar, sharing the same button as the Paintbucket Fill... Read more

How to Use the Extrude Filter in Photoshop

How To Photo and Image Photo and Image Editing December 1, 2014

In recent versions of Adobe Photoshop, more geometrical effects have been added to the default filters library. One of the eager newcomers is the Extrude filter. This takes any selection, image or layer and pushes it outwards using a series of cubes or pyramids. It’s one of those new... Read more

Adobe Lightroom 5.7 Released

News Photo and Image Editing Software Reviews November 23, 2014

Lightroom is Adobe’s state-of-the-art professional photo development, manipulation and organization software. Lightroom’s powerful features enable users to transform RAW photographs into beautiful images of any kind. Sharpness, contrast, tone, white-balance and color can be adjusted in fine detail manually or through a large range of default and downloadable presets.... Read more

How to use Custom Brushes in Photoshop

How To Photo and Image Photo and Image Editing November 20, 2014

Many users only ever use the circular brush tool in Photoshop and miss out on one of the most satisfying ways of freehand digital drawing and a quick, simple way to create interesting effects. Click on the brush tool on the left hand toolbar, it’s the eighth one down,... Read more

How to Navigate & Zoom Images in Photoshop

How To Photo and Image Photo and Image Editing November 14, 2014

With the mega pixel count on cameras getting higher and higher, and the display resolutions on monitors and televisions increasing to suit, the image sizes we now work with are significantly higher than they ever used to be. This can bring with it a few navigation issues when you... Read more

How to Swap Heads in Photoshop

How To Photo and Image Photo and Image Editing November 1, 2014

Sometimes you don’t want to spend hours creating the perfect image, you don’t want to carefully fix every small mistake and make the most convincing photo collage the world has ever seen, sometimes you just want to stick someone’s head on someone else for humorous effect. Here’s a quick... Read more

How to Mask Layers in Photoshop

How To Photo and Image Photo and Image Editing October 31, 2014

All images, like onions, have many layers, in a photo these layers are flattened, but they are still there, the sky, the foreground, the subject, all fall into different planes and the mind splits them up. If you are trying to give the impression of layers in an image,... Read more

How to use the Stained Glass Filter in Photoshop

How To Photo and Image Photo and Image Editing October 31, 2014

All graphics packages come with pre-set filters that new users like to play with when they first get the package, but then never use again. Let’s face it, if everyone used the default filters, with all images subjected to the same process, it would turn the internet into a... Read more

How to Use the Clone Stamp Tool in Photoshop

How To Photo and Image Photo and Image Editing October 27, 2014

Arthur C Clarke’s third law of prediction states – “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” and if you’ve ever used the clone stamp tool in Photoshop, you’ll know exactly what Arthur was talking about. Using a very simple technique of allowing you to sample areas of an... Read more