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Tutorial : Using flash to make your photos stand out!
On December 29, 2007 in Co-Writer, Haha, How To, Photography, Tutorials, Weird
I’m sorry I can’t post up an in-depth tutorial to mark the year’s end. I’ve been pretty busy with stuff and making these tutorials really take more time than I care to admit! Heh.
Here’s a short filler one, regarding flash, to allow you to get your tutorial fix while I work on the lengthy new one coming up next month. 
Light is the most crucial part of a good photo. Not the camera, not the photographer, but light. And natural lighting is definitely the best way to go, but if you lack natural lighting, then you can use flash to compensate. I know, I know… Using flash produces such artificial looking photos, right? Well, not if you use flash right! Fill-flash, especially, can be used to make your pictures pop up even more.
Here I will illustrate how using flash can make or break a photograph in this short tutorial.
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Tutorial : How to get perfect skin!
On November 20, 2007 in Co-Writer, How To, Photography, Tutorials
Have you ever wished you could have perfect skin? Have you ever wished you could get rid of all the acne and pimples and blemishes and scars on your face? Now you can!
Well, at least in your photographs. 
Do you have a near-perfect portrait of yourself, that is embellished by a pimple? Don’t you just hate when that happens? In this tutorial, I will show you how to get rid of all the unflattering marks on your face using Adobe Photoshop mostly by just using two tools. Yes, just two! You will be surprised at how easy it is to do it! So, let’s get started.
Step 1:
I’ll be using this photograph below as an example. You, you can dig up a photograph of yourself to try. Come on now, don’t be shy. Bring the photograph in to Photoshop, preferably using the biggest resolution version of that photograph that you have.
At this point, I would colour-correct the photograph first before continuing with the editing. Not sure how to? Feel free to read my tutorial on how to colour-correct your photos first. Don’t worry, we’ll wait.
Step 2:
Here’s the magic tool that you’ve been waiting for : Healing Brush Tool.
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Tutorial : 4 simple steps to colour-correct your photos!
On November 05, 2007 in Co-Writer, Design/Creatives, How To, Photography, Tutorials
I am glad that a lot of you found my previous tutorial on how to create your own clones helpful! And I saw several attempts based on the tutorial which looked so good that I felt like a parent watching his kid graduate from school! You guys rock!
This next tutorial, we’ll take it slow and easy, and touch on colour-correcting photographs for beginners. It’s nothing difficult and by the end of it, you might probably wonder why I even bothered to post something so simple. It’s just something that I figured most hobbyist-photographers (like myself) would find useful if they had only just started out.
Alright, the image in the screenshot below is what I’ll be using for this tutorial. You can pick out any image from your own collection to play with. If you’ve never colour-corrected your images before, I think you’d be amazed at what the outcome will be.
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Asia Outdoor Advertising 2007
On October 31, 2007 in Advertising, Co-Writer, General Talk
Did you go to the Asia Outdoor Advertising 2007 exhibition at Suntec City between 24th to 26th October last week? I did.
I must say that the exhibition was quite the disappointment. Maybe because it was held during weekdays, the turn out wasn’t as great as the organisers had expected. Plus, the exhibition itself didn’t actually showcase really creative advertising. Maybe that wasn’t the aim, but from the name of the exhibition, I was expecting that. Hrmm. Anyway, most of the booths there were taken up by printer companies, banner-making companies and also erm… More printer companies. There was this one exception though which got my jaw dropping a few times.
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