Jun Miranda

Guides on Resizing in Photoshop (Last Part)–
7.  Smart Objects
To minimize the loss in quality whenever you change (transform) the size of elements in an image, Adobe introduced Smart Objects in Photoshop CS2.
Smart Objects are special kind of layers (Image 15) that preserve its source content with all its original characteristics, allowing you to perform non-destructive [...]

Guides on Resizing in Photoshop (Second Part)–
Here’s the definition of each method:
Nearest Neighbor is the simplest interpolation method and primarily used for resizing images with hard edges, i.e., graphics. Image 07 shows the difference when a square image is resized using Nearest Neighbor method (A) and when Bicubic is used (B). You will notice that [...]

Guides on Resizing in Photoshop (Part 1) –
1.  Two Resizing Methods in Photoshop-
In Photoshop, there are two ways of resizing an image: changing its physical dimension without resampling and changing its pixel dimension.  This is found in the Image Size menu dialog box, which is the primary technique used in Photoshop for resizing images (See [...]

Creating a Test Print in Lightroom 3  (Last Part)–
During the film days, when we printed our own black-and-white photographs in the darkroom, we used to create test prints to check out which exposure time was suited for a particular photo. A test print consists of strips of photographic papers we use to print certain critical [...]

Lightroom 3 –Online Publishing? (Last Part)–
5.  Publishing Your Photos
Click the publish folder and the thumbnail window will show you the photos that you have chosen (Image 7). (If you don’t see them right away, click on the triangle next to New Photos to Publish section of the thumbnail window).

On the extreme right end of the [...]

Lightroom 3 – Is it Worth Upgrading?  (Last Part) –
8. Improved Slideshow Soundtrack
Soundtrack was one of the weak points of the Slideshow feature of Lightroom: (a) you are limited to iTunes’ playlist; (b) you cannot sync the length of the slideshow to the music; and (c) you cannot export the slideshow with the soundtrack, as [...]

Lighroom 3 – Is it Worth Upgrading?-
(First part of a series)–
Finally, the commercial version of Lighroom 3 is here! And you can now sigh with relief, or with regret, depending on your expectations.

Unlike Lightroom 2 which introduced  killer features—localized adjustments and gradient tools, Lightroom 3’s outstanding features were mostly under the hood, not easily visible [...]