Automating Photoshop

What if I told you that by the end of this article I could drastically boost your Photoshop productivity? Interested? That's actually not an exaggeration if you've never taken advantage of Photoshop's actions and batch processing tools. If you find yourself repeatedly performing the same (often mindless) tasks in Photoshop one step at a time, I'm going to show you a better way to work.

Actions are essentially a way to have Photoshop perform a series of predetermined steps on an image. You create them by first manually performing steps for Photoshop to record. But don't worry, Photoshop isn’t timing you when you record an action. No matter how long you take to perform the steps, once the action is created Photoshop will execute it as quickly as possible, which will always be faster than we mere humans could do it. Most Photoshop commands can be included as part of an action, and I'll show you how you can incorporate those that cannot.  

We'll explore how to:

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Learn All About Automating Photoshop From DPReview

Here’s a informative article we found from DPReview that promises to drastically boost your Photoshops skills.

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What if I told you that by the end of this article I could drastically boost your Photoshop productivity? Interested? That’s actually not an exaggeration if you’ve never taken advantage of Photoshop’s actions and batch processing tools. If you find yourself repeatedly performing the same (often mindless) tasks in Photoshop one step at a time, I’m going to show you a better way to work.

Actions are essentially a way to have Photoshop perform a series of predetermined steps on an image. You create them by first manually performing steps for Photoshop to record. But don’t worry, Photoshop isn’t timing you when you record an action. No matter how long you take to perform the steps, once the action is created Photoshop will execute it as quickly as possible, which will always be faster than we mere humans could do it. Most Photoshop commands can be included as part of an action, and I’ll show you how you can incorporate those that cannot.

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We’ll explore how to:

• Create a basic action
• Create an action with a modal control
• Create an action with a stop
• Batch process images
• Create a droplet
• Use Photoshop’s Image Processor

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Europeans Win Underwater Photography Contest

We love underwater photography. It takes a lot of skill to create amazing images underwater. It tests both your photography and diving skills.

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Photographers from Europe triumphed in a marine photography competition organised by printer maker Epson.

Entrants from France, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Slovakia shared 10 of the top prizes in the $80,000 Epson Red Sea contest which is dubbed the ‘underwater photography Olympics’.

Among the winners was Esteban Tore from Spain who said of his winning image: ‘It is not just about doing a portrait. In the Fish of the Year category, for example, you are asked to summarise the behaviour and lifestyle of a fish in just three shoots.

‘You need to stand still, trying not to scare the animal, waiting for the perfect moment to get the perfect frame.’

Kristin Saus-Opuszynski, from Epson Europe, said: ‘As a company we’re engaged in a number of initiatives to highlight and protect global biodiversity and the environment. These competitions offer a different solution though, by using stunning images to inspire people to care about the environment we all share.’

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Photographer In Focus: Christoph Bangert

Christoph Bangert is a great photojournalist and his works are a good source of inspiration.

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Christoph Bangert, 1978, Germany, is a photojournalist based in Switzerland who studied photography at the Fachhochschule in Dortmund and at the International Center of Photography in New York. He has traveled extensively to countries as Japan, Chad, Lebanon, Nigeria and Palestine for his photography. In Pakistan he covered the story of the cold winter after the earthquake hit in 2005. In 2007 he released two monographs. Travel Notes contains images from a 22,000 mile car trip he made from Argentina to New York in 2002. IRAQ: The Space Between shows the work he did in 2005 and 2006 in Iraq on assignment for the New York Times. In the same year he was also chosen for the Joop Swart Masterclass. His images have appeared in numerous publications as Stern, Time, Newsweek and GEO. Currently Christoph is working on a book that will show the images of a 14 month trip in 2007 and 2008 through 36 African countries with a Land Rover. He was exhausted from all the things he in the years before and needed a break to become “a human being again.” The following images come from journeys to Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

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Don’t Throw Your Old Digicam Yet

Here’s a great tip to follow if you have an old digicam.

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If you were one of the people who jumped into digital photography early on then you may be stuck with a few old cameras lying around. Your 5MP point-and-shoot may have been impressive back in the day, but now it’s just sitting around collecting dust, so why not have some fun with it?

Photographer Laura Merz has a clever way to get some use out of that old camera. Gut the camera, remove the lens, add a small light and voila – you’ve got yourself a digital camera nightlight. Laura warns that you’ll want to be careful when disassembling so you don’t crack the exterior case and also because you’ll find more than a few sharp pieces inside.

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Google App Allows You To Check The Most Photographed Locations In The World

This is an awesome way to check out the most photographed destinations. Is your city a hotspot in the Sightsmap?

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Have you ever wanted to know just how many other people visit your favorite hotspot? Ever wondered about the popularity of the places around you? Thanks to a Google Maps application calledSightsmap, you can.

Sightsmap shows a heat map of the world with the most popular photography locations shining most brightly. It may not come as a surprise that Europe is covered with photos, with Northern Italy in particular being a center of photography.

Big cities and tourist spots within the US are hot, including New York, Hawaii, San Francisco, Los Angeles and National parks like Yellowstone.

The heat map only takes into account photos posted on Panoramio, which is a much smaller service than something like Flickr or Facebook. It could, however, be more popular in Europe, accounting for the strikingly higher density of photos there.

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Photographer In Focus: Isa Leshko

American photographer Isa Leshka’s latest photo series is a collection of elderly animals. The photo series is both quirky and touching, a combination of adjectives that is hard to put together but Leshka was able to achieve.

Check her website http://isaleshko.com

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Isa Leshko (b. 1971) is a photographer living in Philadelphia, PA. She has exhibited her work widely throughout the United States, including solo shows at the Corden|Potts Gallery, the Galveston Arts Center, the Griffin Museum of Photography, the Houston Arts Alliance Gallery, and the Richard Levy Gallery. Her work is in numerous private collections and has been purchased by the Boston Public Library, Haverford College, and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston for their permanent collections.

Isa’s work has been reviewed and published widely throughout the globe, including coverage in The Atlantic, The Boston Globe, The Guardian, The New York Times, NPR, Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin (SZ-Magazin), The Washington Post, and Zoom Magazine. She has received four Prix de la Photographie, Paris Awards and was selected to participate in the 2010 Review Santa Fe Portfolio Review. She was named a Critical Mass Finalist in 2010 and 2011 and a finalist for the 2011 New Orleans Photo Alliance Clarence John Laughlin Award. She was recently nominated for the Santa Fe Prize for Photography.

Isa founded Exit 12 Press in 2010 and published Thrills & Chills (ISBN: 978-0-615-35421-7), an exhibition catalog to accompany her solo exhibit at the Griffin Museum of Photography. The publication was named one of the best photography books of 2010 by Larissa Leclair, curator and director/founder of the Indie Photobook Library. The catalog has been added to the holdings of many public collections, including the National Art Library at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Boston Public Library and the Southeast Museum of Photography Reference Library.

Isa grew up in Carteret, an industrial town situated off the New Jersey Turnpike. She received her BA from Haverford College, where she studied cognitive psychology and neurobiology. Isa spent 13 years residing in Salem, MA and has also lived in Houston, TX, Portsmouth, NH, and Providence, RI. She spent the 1990s working for dot.com startups as a project manager and software engineer before she discovered her passion for photography.

Isa’s work is represented by the Corden|Potts Gallery in San Francisco, CA, the John Cleary Gallery in Houston, TX and the Richard Levy Gallery in Albuquerque, NM.

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Photographer In Focus: Rinko Kawauchi

What kind of photography do you enjoy? What kind of images do you want to specialize in as a photographer? For those of you interested in Fine Art Photography, you should check out Japanese photographer Rinko Kawauchi. Ms. Kawauchi’s fine art photos are something to reflect upon. Her story is also somehow inspiring.

Rinko Kawauchi, 1972, Japan, is a fine art photographer based in Tokyo. She studied at the Seian University of Art and Design and graduated in 1993. She started as a photographer on a freelance basis from 1997. In 2001 she launched herself into the photographic world with the simultaneous release of 3 books, UTATANE, HANABI and HANAKO. Since then she has released a large number of monographs of which the latest addition is Illuminance. Her images seem simple, but they evoke primal emotions within the viewer. By paying attention to tiny gestures and incidental details within her environment she finds the extraordinary within the mundane. The editing within her books is crucial to her work and the stories she wishes to tell. The photographs show a large range of emotions and fundamentally adresses life itself, from the good all the way to the bad. Her work has been exhibited extensively in solo and group shows around the world and is in several public collections as the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Phtography and Huis Marseille in Amsterdam. The following images come from the books Illuminance, AILA and Cui Cui.

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Japanese Prosumers Can Grab The Canon EOS C300 Soon

The Canon EOS C300 is pretty pricy, so what better market to launch it than the tech-savvy and affluent Japanese camera crowd.

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We didn’t have much detail on when the Canon EOS C300 would be made available, beyond B&H Photo letting us know it’d be “sometime after January 30th.” It turns out the retailer was pretty much on the money, though, as the 1080p-shooting cinema camcorder will go on sale in Japan the very next day along with its 14.5-60mm T2.6L lens. Chances are the US release will follow shortly after, as we were told to expect a staggered global launch. If you just can’t wait, though, you should know that while it’ll go for a pre-tax price of $15,999 in the US, Canon expects Japanese retailers to sell the C300 for a cool 1.5 million yen. That’s over $19,000, inclusive of 5% sales tax — but if you can afford the camera in the first place, it may be a small premium to pay for the bragging rights.

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Ngoc Trinh model and car

With familiar sexy pictures, the 9X model  - NgocTrinh show confidence her body with bikinicostume beside the stylish cars in the new images collection.

With a pretty face like dolls, Ngoc Trinh also owns a white skin, looks very attractive. 

Entered the model world after 16 years old, farlonger legs born in 1990 achieved many titlessuch as photogenic model, Vietnam supermodelcontest 2005, fashion beauty contests in 2007 ...She also expensive show with  underwear by anumber of  perfect measurements 85-58-91.

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