Questions tagged [photography]
Questions about taking pictures with a camera.
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Why is the effect called Dodge?
In the process of answering a question on Reddit, I got curious about why the Dodge and Burn tools are named as they are. I understand now the terms relate to photography, and "Burn" makes sense to me,...
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Plagiarism vs Inspiration
Artists, writers, musicians, designers, businesses, even the creative DIY blogger mom at home must decide for themselves where to draw the line between being “Inspired” and “Copying” other’s hard work....
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How do I fix this photo (poor quality, saturation, color) in GIMP?
I have a photo with poor quality and lighting that needs to go in a print newsletter. There is some lighting issues, and a blue-ish color in part of the image. I'd like to fix the image using GIMP.
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What is the name of a photographic effect where there are subtle shadows in corners?
If you take pictures and the aperture settings are not ideal, you will see a light shadow in the corners.
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This effect is a sign of bad quality, but is also often used as a design element ...
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Gimp: removing background from product images
I often have the task of making the background of product images pure white.
While preserving the best possible image quality, what is the quickest way to adjust colors such that the background ...
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Is holography technology accessible?
A client recently asked me if I was able to help him with a project to create a holographic 3D model on their business card, whose perspective would change as you orient the card, such as the mouse on ...
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If a photographer wants to sell product image of a shampoo bottle, does he need to take permission from shampoo brand?
I want to understand the copyright situation when it comes to selling stock images of products. Are they supposed to be editorial use only? Let's say if there is an image of a particular brand shampoo,...
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Which file format is best for printing? [closed]
What would be the best image format for printing images or designs created with Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator or to print images form a digital camera?
If I have the option of exporting different ...
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How to give photo credit in a book
A client of mine wants to use photos off the internet for her book that will be printed on a small run from 50-200 for clients of hers for a training manual.
How do i cite them properly to cover both ...
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Can I use my own photographs of a company's product for commercial purposes?
I am designing a music-based mobile app that will need lots of instrument graphics and sounds bytes, etc.
Would I be in legal trouble if I photographed my Fender guitars and
used these photographs ...
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instructions to give photographer when shooting for web
I work with a team of graphic designers. The most common challenge we have is how to use photography which is great by itself, but when it comes to using these on placements across the website or app, ...
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How to achieve better consistency with stock / vendor photos taken from different distances?
I'm working on an e-commerce site and one problem I face is having to deal with furniture vendors and the way they shoot their photos.
Some shoot products photos up close and others from far back. ...
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How do I edit the layer mask selection using the adjustments tab?
I have two layer images imported from lightroom, one underexposed for the background sunset and one overexposed for the subject. How do I make adjustments to the layer mask selection itself without it ...
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How do I create an image with blurred background and focused foreground?
EveryMe.com uses this image as background:
How is it done, and how do I edit an image to look like that?
I use Pixelmator and photoshop, thanks!
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Is there a name for the type of photography or layout where items are arranged on a grid?
Is there a name for this layout?
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Achieve Ludwig Hohlwein style from photograph
I am trying to make something inspired by the look of Ludwig Hohlwein's posters.
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It appears his work primarily involved watercolor painting with different drying times in order to achieve ...
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Editing photo dimensions in large batches
If I had the time, I would go through each and every photo to make sure that the dimensions and quality are pixel perfect. However, I'm in a time crunch, and need to make the couple hundred photos ...
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What items is a company's brand identity typically applied to?
I'm a newbie in Branding of products in the market using Graphics Design and as per my question, I would like to know what items are supposed to be branded for a photographer as a client?
Branding is ...
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Why does an image get Larger when I up the DPI?
I am currently working on a print media project that requires a 300 DPI minimum for all images. I thought I had to discard a bunch of photos that were 180 DPI at their default resolution. However, I ...
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Check EXIF orientation
When you create a photo with your camera, the image stores the camera orientation.
(https://www.impulseadventure.com/photo/exif-orientation.html)
I'm trying to find an app that will show these flags....
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Hands-on design: What material was used for this piece?
I was curious as to how this design was crafted, I'm assuming in a hands on sense. My approach would be to print the original text and pour this liquid material overtop of it to cause the distortion, ...
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How to color correct in Photoshop to match a color card
I'm trying to get accurate colors for a digital-photographed painting. The photo includes a color card ("Kodak Gray Scale", with cyan "C", yellow "Y", magenta "M", and a 19-step gray scale going from ...
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How to enhance text and line drawing scan in photoshop?
I have photographed text and writing with usual camera. Picture contains black printing lines and blue pen writing.
Picture contains the following artifacts:
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Can we create cylindrical panorama from a polar panorama
I have been trying to search a way out to convert polar panorama to cylindrical panorama. But I couldn't get anything on it.
So, I would like to ask if is it possible to do so?
Thanks
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Hybrid photograph video
How do I create these hybrid photograph videos? Only some parts of the photo are moving.
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Are Photoshop skills needed for a Graphic Illustrator?
I am a student who is going for internship soon. However, I am not sure what I would want to do. I'm slightly better at Photoshop than Illustrator. However, there are only 2 jobs available for me. ...
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How to Create a Shiny Colour Swatch Puddle
I was wondering how you would create something like this:
Source: orlybeauty.com
As you can see, there is a shadow in the bottom left, which gets lighter as you move diagonally to the top right. ...
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How to create or take a large photograph for displays? Is it worth it?
I am working on a single panel screen for a display, 106" x 82" (2692.4mm x 2082.8mm). The highest quality photos I have are 18" x 12" (457.2mm x 304.8mm) at 300ppi.
Of course I don't have to make ...
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What are good sets of photographic portraits to use in mockups?
I've been using the same set of photographic portraits in my mockups for a long time, and I'm looking for a more extensive set of square, male and female avatars/photos (portraits).
What are good ...
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What elements go into a successful landscape phototographer's website?
Let's say that I want to design a website to sell photographs of landscape, wildlife, or general interest subjects. What tips, elements, etc. should be incorporated into the design to make it ...
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When to use photos or illustrations in design?
When should I use design based on photos and when based on illustrations? Is it based on the emotional impact which we designers want to achieve?
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Fix or darken overly bright region on photo
I have come across this issue a few times and I finally decided to ask my question here to see if the community could help me.
So, I am trying to make the contrast in this photo look right. I have ...
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What graphics program to use to make 3D scientific illustrations for journal articles? [closed]
I am trying to plot a 3D figure for scientific illustration. Does anyone knows the software type to use to plot graphic illustration such as
I would like to reproduced some parts of this figure and ...
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I have to get a large number of photos approved for my project. Is there an online tool or platform that can help me with this?
We've had a photographer do a three day shoot to provide imagery for the project I'm working on. From the thousands of shots she took we want to get down to an initial set of 75 images that have been ...
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Classification schemes for photos
Those that have seen the moodstream tool at gettyimages.com might have expected that there are better image classification and management tools than what is currently available in Adobe Creative Suite ...
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What copyright do I need to worry about in regards to personal photos of sculptures or famous buildings?
I would like to use my own photos of sculptures or famous buildings that other people made in personal projects (not for real clients) that are poster advertisements and upload them to my Behance ...
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Large Format Photograph Printing
I've got a client who wants me to create a large format banner to go hang at the rear of his property. The bulk of this banner is a photograph of his shop, with some text at the top.
For the ...
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Stock Photo resource collections for Salons?
I apologize in advance if this may be off topic (I'm new here so I am not quite sure)
But I have sifted through many Stock Photography resources and I have found very little to none, reasonably ...
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Reason to use vector art instead of photos (How to convince a client one style is better than the other)
Context: I did some vector art to use in a login page and adverts. I got cool reviews about it, but my boss prefers real photos instead of vector art. The photos and vector art are for a Business ...
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Where can I find celebrity photos for commercial use?
Every commercial-use photograph website I've looked at (flickr, shutterstock, getty images, etc) have plenty of pictures of celebrities, but literally none of them have model releases, so they can't ...
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How can I edit a picture like this one?
I would like to achieve this blurry multiply image effect.
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Create very long exposure clouds with brushes or other techniques in photoshop
I know how to do long exposure, but sometimes, quite often in fact, the end result does not look as good as I wish, in terms of patterns.
An alternative would be replacing the sky, but I'm asking ...
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Regular panoramic photo to iPhone panoramic [closed]
How I can change the format or the register of a panoramic photo made in Photoshop to a iPhone panoramic photo, this is because the new feature of Facebook admit only that ones
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How to achieve this filter/action shown that will give the my pictures a cinematic/lively feel in Adobe Photoshop?
The attached pictures below show two sample of the filter/effect that I want to achieve in Adobe Photoshop. Is this done through a Photoshop action or there is a particular set of steps that will lead ...
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How can I shoot huge cliffs for photogrammetry?
I'm not an expert of photogrammetry, but I'd like to know if there is a specific shooting method for large objects in order to use them into 3D apps.
I'm not talking about textures, but capturing pure ...
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What kind of filter / treatment /lighting / style is done on this photo?
Can anyone help identify what kind of filter / treatment via photoshop was done to this photo? Or is it some kind of lighting treatment? Or perhaps some kind of color grading was done to it?
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DPI/PPI resolution for product zoom images
I'm working on an ecommerce site and I am trying to figure out at which resolution to save product images.
We usually go for 72DPI but I believe now we should be using PPI, but also that to account ...
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Can I sell my own pics with added overlays that are not mine?
I am a stock photographer and just bought a huge pack of photo overlays and backgrounds and more from inkydeals.com to use in Photoshop. Can I use those overlays, brushes and effects on the pictures I ...
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Backup storage solution for video/RAW photographs
I work as a designer/photographer for a <10 person startup. We rely heavily on photography and video in our work. Currently we use Google Drive to store edited photos and graphics, however, have no ...
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2D dimensions from photograph
Suppose I want to take the dimensions of an object of negligible width on a flat surface from a photograph and am able to calibrate in the sense that I know the distance per pixel of some line drawn ...
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