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Creative Evolution     posted on 27th of march, 2012
>The following is from a short piece written by Pete Collins from the National Association of Photoshop Professionals regarding a quote that deals with the nature of creative evolution as I like to refer to it. Thought I'd share it on this venue as it is relevant to all those who are fairly new to photography.

I came across this quote for the first time when it was shared by Jeremy Cowart… and then Scott posted it on his page… I was then reminded of it again this weekend when Jeremy was giving his talk at the “Art of digital photography” session at Photoshop World in D.C.

I wanted you to have a chance to read and reflect on this quote if you haven’t read it before… and if you have… how has that changed your thinking about the hard things that you are working through right now?

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Thanks for sharing! This fits the slogan: "There is no short cut for success". - posted by Jdanne on March 31, 2012
Very interesting and thanks for sharing. Malcomb Gladwell wrote a book called "the Outliers". In the book it talks about success and how extremely successful people (athletes, business people, artists, etc) become successful. There is one key element.. how many hours did they put in? He then goes on to talk about the 10,000 hour rule. Wikipedia does a nice little summary The Outliers - posted by Littlemacproductions on March 29, 2012
I read this quote a while ago but forgot it. Thanks for the lovely reminder :) - posted by Dark3y3s on March 28, 2012

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Photoshop's Chameleon Features     posted on 28th of march, 2012
>What I appreciate most about Photoshop CS5 (soon to be 6), is the depth of its features and the endless ways that it allows users to synthesize, combine, and devise new and subtly different ways of accomplishing a particular look or feel to an image. I learn a new way of doing an old task almost daily, and each one provides a little different advantage and appearance to your image. This ‘fungibility’ of product features is the most compelling aspect of this marvelous software.
For instance, you want to selectively lighten or darken (or both) different areas of your image there are numerous ways to accomplish this task depending on the composition and characteristics of each image. You can choose to simply create another duplicate background layer and use the stock ‘dodge and burn’ tools...

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When you create a %50 gray dodge and burn layer, just remember to change it's mode to "soft light" :) I think Lightart forgot this simple step mistakenly while he was writing this helpful blog :) thanks for sharing - posted by Parkinsonsniper on April 24, 2012
Michal, many thanks for your insights! :)
I did not actually find any CMYK feature in my GIMP. Strange they would not introduce it. As for the canvas, one can increase it manually if needed (if that's what you meant). Still need read more of comparison reviews of the two... - posted by Andromantic on April 09, 2012
Thanks for sharing - posted by Gennaro86 on April 04, 2012

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>Creation stands on its own. Any meaning or value is derived by each viewer solely from within the boundaries of the work itself. Photography, to me, is simply a wonderful method to express that primal desire to reflect and thus express truth or beauty (some say they are the same thing). It also may be simply the desire to convey a profoundly moving effect. To that end, the viewer either 'gets it' . . or is not moved.
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