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Canon Digital Photo Professional video tutorials

January 28th, 2008 by Antoine Khater

If you are struggling with DPP 3.2 ”1” than check this Canon site. It has good and downloadable video tutorials explaining in details the different tools and functionalities of DPP 3.2.

I think we can all benefit from these, newbie and advanced users alike since there is always something we might have missed. I know I did miss the batch renaming part !


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Photoshop tutorial: Fix blown skin highlights

January 3rd, 2008 by Antoine Khater

This post is written by RedCrown, believe me it is a powerful trick try it out it might save you some pics

Blown skin highlights is an unfortunate but common problem on portraits that are otherwise well exposed. I’ve read and tried many techniques with mixed results. So I developed this technique, using the best steps I’ve found in the work of others. Would appreciate feedback and improvements.

The process uses three common techniques. First it targets “blown” highlights using the Threshold adjustment. Then it changes that target area to a light neutral gray using Levels and Hue/Sat. Finally it paints color over the target area.

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Photoshop Calendar 2008 templates

November 23rd, 2007 by Antoine Khater

If you’ve been carefully following adidap through out this month, then you should have done by now your Christmas cards. But Christmas is not the only thing happening, in just over a month we will kiss 2007 goodbye and we “should” be ready for a new year.

So don’t wait, grab these great and free adobe photoshop calendar templates gathered from the internet & make your own calendars.

Before hitting the list I would like to thank each author of the below templates for making them available free of charge.

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Free photoshop Christmas cards templates

November 20th, 2007 by Antoine Khater

After the collection of 300+ free photoshop Christmas brushes I will share with you today a collection of free Adobe Photoshop templates that we can use for this year’s Christmas cards (thanks to the efforts of fellow photographers that decided to make them available for us)

Before hitting the list I would like to remind you about the cool snowglobe action that can turn very handy too.

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Early Christmas present: Photoshop snowglobe action

November 13th, 2007 by Antoine Khater

photoshop christmas snowglobe action
Honestly guys I would have loved to tell you that I am the author of this photoshop action but I can’t :) But it is still an early Christmas present from PhotographyBB to all of us.

This VERY cool Adobe Photoshop action will turn any of your pictures into a nice Snowglobe and is compatible with all Photoshop versions starting version 7.

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300+ Free photoshop Christmas Brushes

November 12th, 2007 by Antoine Khater

As December is growing nearer, I am trying my best to gather resources that would make it easier for all of us to prepare for this Christmas.

So here is, for your eyes only, a collection of the best free Christmas Adobe Photoshop brushes that I was able to find here and there on the net.

N.B.: Most of the original websites contain a lot of other free brushes make sure to visit them

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Download Canon Digital Photo Professional 3.1 today

September 19th, 2007 by Antoine Khater

I don’t think it is new news to you if I tell you that the Canon EOS 40D ships with Canon Digital Photo Professional ”1” version 3.1. However this version ships only with the 40D and is not available for download through Canon website.

However if, like myself, you don’t own the 40D you can still get your hands on DPP 3.1 (Windows version only tho), and the good thing is that this version will install on a clean system even if you don’t have any previous versions of DPP installed.


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Get this “Kinder Surprise” Photoshop action

September 19th, 2007 by Antoine Khater

Today I am sharing with you a really cool Adobe Photoshop action I called it “Kinder Surprise” simply because I am not going to tell you what it does.

Sorry guys but I have to play by the rules since his author, Mike Warren, himself named it “surprise action” but I think you most of you will enjoy it.

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2 Free noise removal programs

March 22nd, 2007 by Antoine Khater

Noise is often introduced in digital images due to many factors like, high ISO, long exposure, sensor technology, low light etc…

To reduce noise in the digital dark room there are well know, but rather expensive, commercial tools like Neat image and Noise Ninja.

Here are two free noise removal programs to download and use

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Free Presets for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom

March 9th, 2007 by Antoine Khater

Photoshop Hall-of-Famer Jack Davis, has recently developed a collection of more than 80 presets to work with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. Price : FREE !

Let’s see what Jack is saying about his PhotoPresets

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