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January 5, 2014 | Leave a Comment |
Check out The Complete Photography Bundle.
This amazing deal for ebooks, videos, presets/actions, software and more by great contributors including Lindsey Adler, Martin Bailey, Alister Benn, Richard Bernabe, Jim Goldstein, Joel Grimes, Karen Hutton, Eddie Tapp and many others.
Plus you can enter to win prizes free!
Offer ends Jan 10th. (It’s available for 5 days only.)
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Category: Discount Limited Time Tags: actions, eBooks, photography education, presets, Software, videos
June 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment |
Get %15 off all NIK software products with this code – JPCNIK.
HDR Efex Pro Color Efex Pro Silver Efex Pro Sharpener Pro Dfine Viveza Capture NX
NIK software is among the best of the best in the digital imaging industry. Just look at all the awards it’s won.
It makes complicated tasks easy. How?
“Photoshop plug-ins take away some of the most labour-intensive photo manipulations and replace them with an easier to use “script”, or presets. Nik plug-ins go one step further and provide the user with a unique ‘U-Point’ technology, allowing for customisation of individual image parameters. And all presets can be further customized to each photographer’s taste.”
With so many great choices, where do you start? I recommend you look very closely at HDR Efex Pro (the most visual and intuitive HDR interface available) and at Tonal Contrast in Viveza or Structure in Sharpener Pro (Clarity or High Pass sharpening on steroids).
Find NIK Software products here.
Category: Discount Limited Time, Software Tags: automation, Capture NX, Color Efex Pro, Dfine, HDR Efex Pro, NIK, plug-ins, Sharpener Pro, Silver Efex Pro, Software, Viveza
March 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment |
Get 15% off Photomatix with this code – johnpaulcaponigro.
Beyond Photoshop, there are a number of HDR software options, both plug-ins and stand-alones. Some of the better-known programs include Artizen HDR, easyHDR, FDRTools, pfstools, HDR Efex Pro, and Photomatix. HDRsoft’s Photomatix is the longest standing and perhaps most robust and sophisticated solution.
Photomatix can be used either as a Photoshop plug-in or as a stand-alone product. It offers a variety of ways of combining exposures, including some non-HDR options. Photomatix offers impressive controls over essential image elements affected by HDR merges. Chief among these are control over halos, micro-contrast accentuation, micro-smoothing and control of saturation in highlights and shadows (areas that tend to need aggressive tone mapping).
With a little care and attention, the effect you produce with these tools can be one of your choosing. If used aggressively, you can produce a contemporary HDR effect that can give your images a new look. If used conservatively, you can produce a classic effect that’s virtually unnoticeable.
Every photographer can benefit from learning HDR techniques …
Read my review of Photomatix here. Stay tuned for the update.
Read more about HDR techniques here.
View more about HDR in my DVD Extending Dynamic Range – HDR Imaging.
Learn more in my digital photography workshops.
Category: Discounts, Software Tags: discount, hdr, hdr soft, photomatix, Software
February 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment |
The folks who make the software I use pass on great discounts to my readers. That’s you!
Here’s a list of links to the codes you’ll need to get them.
Discount Adobe Discount Epson Discount FotoQuote Discount Imagenomic Discount OnOne Discount PhotoKit
Stay tuned! There are more discounts coming! You’ll find a growing list of links on my blog sidebar.
Learn more about the tools I use here.
Category: Discounts Tags: adobe, discounts, Epson, fotoquote, imaenomic, OnOne, photokit, Software
February 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment |
Get 15% off of Pixel Genius products with this code – JPC15CPN.
The people at Pixel Genius (Martin Evening, the late Bruce Fraser, Mac Holbert, Andrew Rodney, Seth Resnick and Jeff Schewe) produce terrific production tools for use within Photoshop – PhotoKit, Photo Kit Color, and Photo Kit Sharpener.
PhotoKit automates a variety of tasks including color correction, color to black and white conversion, toning, and basic sharpening. PhotoKit Sharpener automates some of the most sophisticated sharpening routines ever devised. They’re so sophisticated they were licensed and modified for Adobe’s Lightroom.
Read more
Category: Discounts, Software Tags: bruce fraser, discount, Jeff Schewe, mac holbert, martin evening, photo kit, photo kit sharpener, pixel genius, real world image sharpening, seth resnick, Software
January 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment |
Get 20% off Imagenomic products with this discount code JPC2007.
Noiseware is the most robust noise-reduction software available. Ironically, while it offers the most sophisticated feature set, very often the default settings when you first open an image are all you’re likely to need. In many cases, very little, if any, additional tweaking is necessary.
In part, this is because Noiseware analyzes the images you process and creates “profiles” or saved settings that it uses every time you open a new image. It intelligently learns your needs by tracking your past images and analyzing your new images. You can also use Noiseware’s tools to create your own profiles, which can be saved and reused. You can save your own Preferences for how you’d like Noiseware to behave and learn. Noiseware also offers 13 default settings (like Landscape, Night Scene, Portrait, Stronger Noise, etc.) and allows you to save your own custom settings, which can be created from scratch or by modifying the provided presets.
Noiseware’s ability to target noise reduction to specific aspects of an image is what makes it unparalleled. You can adjust Noise Reduction based on Luminance or Chrominance; higher settings produce stronger noise reduction. You can target Noise Level based on Luminance or Chrominance; higher settings tell the software there’s more noise. You can target Color Range; Noise Reduction and Noise Level can be customized by hue—reds, yellows, greens, cyans, blues, magentas, neutrals. You can target Tonal Range; Noise Reduction and Noise Level can be customized for shadows, midtones and highlights. You can target image areas based on Frequency (or amount of detail); Noise Reduction and Noise Level can be customized to High, Mid, Low and Very Low frequencies. Finally, you can enhance detail, first, by using Detail Protection to reduce the effect based on Luminance or Color, and second, by using Detail Enhancement, which provides Sharpening, Contrast and Edge Smoothening.
Noiseware’s ability to provide this level of selectivity is extraordinary. It allows you to easily customize noise reduction for separate areas of an image without making complex masks. You’ll want to do this. Here’s just one example, among many, of why you want to do this. Smooth image areas reveal noise much more readily and they support more noise reduction, while highly textured image areas hide noise, but don’t support as much noise reduction without compromising apparent image sharpness.
Read my full review on Digital Photo Pro.
Find Imagenomic’s Noiseware here.
Read more in my digital photography resources.
Learn more in my digital printing workshops.
Category: Discounts, Software Tags: discount, imagenomic, noise, noise reduction, noise ware, Software
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