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Preparing a RAW File for Noise Reduction in Camera Raw

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Night photography, fast moving objects, low lighting and other factors can often force you to increase your camera’s ISO settings in order to obtain proper exposure and focus. Once the image is snapped, you might be deceived as there is no evident noise within the image in your camera’s preview mode. Yet, when transferred to the computer and enlarged the grainy substance becomes more apparent. Luckily there is software out there to help eliminate high ISO noise, such as our plug-in, Topaz DeNoise.

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Using Photoshop’s Content Aware Fill Tool to Remove Distractions

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Unwanted objects can be the culprit of distraction and at many times, unavoidable when taking a photo. Traditionally, to remove these objects the clone stamp tool in Photoshop was the most viable option. However a new tool was introduced into Photoshop CS5 and up called Content-Aware Fill, which at many instances defeats the clone tool for it is quicker and does a better job at rendering a more natural result.

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The Ferrari Enzo Workflow

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Guest post by Doug Pittman

A few years back, while watching a local newscast, one of the reporters announced an upcoming car show close to where I live. It sounded to me like the perfect opportunity to put my new camera to the test, so my plans were set for that Saturday. I must have been bitten by some sort of bug while I was there because I now rarely go more than a week without photographing or working on a car image.

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