when we learn to cultivate relationship
Neil August 2nd, 2010
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Pay Yourself First – So You Can Pay Others Too
Neil March 21st, 2010
Pay Yourself First – So You Can Pay Others Too
Anything you do requires energy. And everything you do creates energy. Anything. Even reading this article. You’re spending energy by focusing on the text, processing the info in your brain and matching it against what you already know. At the end of this process, you get some energy back in the form of new ideas, new approaches or possibly some answers. Hopefully, you’ll get some positive energy by reading this :- ).
Have you ever thought what happens with this energy you get back? How much of it you really use? How much of it you discard unconsciously? We’re usually thinking in spending patterns rather than in receiving patterns. We think: how much it will cost me to do this, or how much I will have to give to make this happen. But we almost never think in terms of: what’s the reward of doing this?
Finish this intriguing article about energy balances and you
The Wacom Bamboo Pen Tablet and Evernote « Evernote Blogcast
Neil February 18th, 2010
The Wacom Bamboo Pen Tablet and Evernote « Evernote Blogcast
Annotating images
On bother Windows and Mac, use the Wacom Bamboo Pen tablet to annotate images in your favorite image editor, then bring those annotated images into Evernote. We’ll process them and make the handwriting searchable. If you already have an image in Evernote, right click and open it with your image editor. When you’re done annotating, hit save, and the image will automatically update in Evernote thanks to our Live Update feature.
Twitter giveaway time!
The great folks at Wacom are generously offering three (3) Wacom Bamboo Pen tablets. Here’s how to enter:
A snow based photoshop toning tutorial
Neil December 29th, 2009
The Seduction of Potential Podcast
Neil November 3rd, 2009
Methings | Podcast | Episode: LW0562: The Seduction of Potential Podcast
“I think this is one of the great barriers in the creative life. It’s so seductive to spend all of our time and energy developing potential; that is to say learning techniques, gathering equipment, putting our life and our creative life in order, cleaning up the darkroom…….but if we don’t actually make something – then all that time goes to naught.”
“Am I doing it because I need it – or am I doing it because I might someday need it in theory – but never in practice. There is a bit of a hoarders mentality in this.”
40 Incredibly Inspirational Retro & Vintage Photoshop Tutorials
Neil September 2nd, 2009
40 Incredibly Inspirational Retro & Vintage Photoshop Tutorials | Photoshop Tutorials
The memories of yesteryears invoke in us a sense of nostalgia as we long for the days gone by when life seems so much simpler. Technology was not as advanced as it is today, and things were changing at a slower pace. Retro and vintage years usually refer to the decades before our present day, up to the last century.
Vintage Pinup and Boudoir Retouching tutorial
Neil April 18th, 2009
Vintage Pinup and Boudoir Retouching
tutorial is sponsored by the generously donated pinup images of Kelly @ Bay Area Pinups
This is some of the fun vintage effects achieved with the Vintage packages, video guide after the jump:
Black and White film Lightroom presets
Neil April 14th, 2009
Black and White film Lightroom presets
A set of three Black and White Lightroom presets to mimic film Contrast management techniques to mimic the tonal response of black and white films
Click to download other free photoshop actions and textures
Read more about the LIGHTSPEED – Adobe Photoshop Lightroom enhanced workflow seminar
Free Light Friday: 3-27-09
Neil March 27th, 2009
Double header today!
In reference to creating vintage and antique photo effects, we want to achieve the elusive ‘light leak’ effect…
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The ‘light leak’ effect is a partial bleaching or lightening of the image plane caused by a leak of light at exposure, development, printing, or uneven fading of the image in the aging or weathering process. A light leak layer is included in the Vintage Multiple choice workflow action.
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To read a concise tutorial on creating the faded - light leaking look try this tutorial by Wharf 8
Now comes the toning of the image. Again, I used the curves layer to adjust the reds, blues and yellows as well as to slightly fade the image.
If you’d like the Golden Touch in your light leaking adventures – buy the texture set:
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Creative light leaky blessings this friday!
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