A Thing of Beauty is a Joy with PhotoshopWritten by Granny's Mettle
Human nature always seems to have this predilection with beauty and what society believes is beautiful. When we are fat, we want to be slim or thin. When we have so-called “love handles”, we decide we do not love them anymore, so we go to gym and exercise until our tongues fall out from fatigue. We are blessed with dark colored skin, so we try all new bleaching products available in market to lighten our color. We have white skin so we go to tanning salons to get olive skin, and out-in-the-sun color to your skin. We are naturally brunette but we go to nearest salon to get our hair done and died to blonde because they said “blondes always have such fun”.And digital technology is also banking on partiality of people to not have fun with what Lord has blessed them with originally. I have been in digital business for quite some time now, and what I regularly encounter are numerous questions on how to remove blemishes from photos so that their faces would look great and give that “fashion-magazine look” that media is glamorizing so much nowadays. Here are a few suggestions then from a photographer on beauty retouching. (Now, if I could just do it in real life, I would be a millionaire by now.) Beauty Retouching with Photoshop 1 – Try to improve colors on face in your photo as far as you can go. To edit, it is better to do it in RGB rather than CMYK. With RGB, editing is more flexible and easy. And explore all selections in various feathers. Do not be afraid to experiment. After all, being creative is all about using all choices available. 2 – After editing your color, it’s now time to create a new layer. This is also a tool for you to be able to control your work. Begin your retouch using a heeling brush and cloning stamp to remove things you want removed. Start with bigger imperfections and move your way to littlest blemish. You could also use heeling brush to remove lines under eyes to create that young look to face.
| | A familar problem for everyone. Is ther now a solution?Written by Chris Cameron
Lost & Found for 21st Century In today’s hectic world more and more people are turning to those handy gadgets and mobile products that can be taken with them anywhere they go. The more things consumers own, more they're prone to lose them. This in mind we actually went out and tested a new service on UK market from Want it Bak. Lets see what Londoners are really made of.We left a Palm m130 PDA on Jubilee Line of London Underground, a Sony Ericcson Mobile on number 15 bus route, a Blackberry “email on move” gizmo down in a local pub in South West London and a rucksack sitting in Starbucks Chancery Lane area. Lastly we left a digital camera sitting out in open in Hyde park. Not easiest thing leaving items lying about in this highly security conscious world we live in these days. Here in 21st century our lives have become more and more reliant on mobile items. As we go through our days, keeping a mental log of everything we have and where we have it becomes more and more difficult. It is inevitable that some things get lost. In fact as stated in a recent research “Around 62,000 mobile phones were left in London taxis during last six months. That's an average three phones per taxi, according to a survey of licensed London cabbies by Taxi Newspaper and Pointsec Mobile Technologies. Absent minded and drunken travellers also forgot 4,000 laptops and 5,000 PDA’s when exiting cabs”. So what can we do to have give us some reassurance that we have at least a chance of getting our valuable or even sentimental items back. In steps lost and found for 21st century in form of Want it Bak. The service is based around belief that most people are actually honest and will do right thing if a method is offered to them. This feel good factor is enhanced by added incentive of a reward for doing right thing. Anything you can imagine, mobile phones, keys, cameras, PDA’s, laptops, binoculars, backpacks, passports, briefcases, wallets and purses, golf clubs, power tools, textbooks, credit cards, cheque books... you get picture, it can all be protected using their simple system. How does Want it Bak work? Simple. You purchase a range of security tags each with their own unique id number. You register them with Want it Bak and that’s it. If you ever lose item and someone finds it they contact Want it Bak directly using their website or their 0800 number and they arrange a courier to pick it up and return it to owner for a small admin charge. One of best things about this service is confidential nature of it. The “Finder” never knows who owner is and vice versa. Reassuring for owners of expensive items, they can now safely retrieve their possessions. "It's a great incentive for people to do right thing", says Chris Cameron from Want it Bak, "Our research shows that most people are actually honest and biggest barrier they have to returning items is hassle of finding out who it belongs to, arranging delivery or pick up, getting time to drop item off at local police station. Now they don't have to do anything except ring us or visit our website, and they get a Reward for their troubles".
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