http://macmost.com/ Learn how to wrap text around images using either a one or two column layout. Find out how to use images with an alpha channel, images with a s...
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http://macmost.com/ Learn how to wrap text around images using either a one or two column layout. Find out how to use images with an alpha channel, images with a solid background, or define a shape to wrap the text around. Also, find out how to crop images.
Episode 136: Shrink...
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I got the planned episode 136 nearly ready – a photography trip to Hamburg. But then came an urgent job from Chicago and overturned the schedule. (No, John, it was...
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I got the planned episode 136 nearly ready – a photography trip to Hamburg. But then came an urgent job from Chicago and overturned the schedule. (No, John, it wasn’t urgent, it was convenient to have a bit more time to edit the Hamburg show). A big portrait had to be downsized from 3504×2336 to 95×125 pixels. And of course this postage stamp then should still have some atmosphere and style. How much damage this does to the details is visible in the animation on the right. I never have done this before in such an extreme way and found out, that scaling down in steps is really better than doing one big step. Beware, this is not the last word about downscaling. There are plugins at the Plugin Registry and we have a discussion about this in the Forum. For making the image interseting and informative enough for web use I tried to change the contrast with the curve tool, burned and dodged and even made some duotone images. The TOC 01:48 Find a crop / crop tool and aspect ratio 03:00 What has to be in? 06:00 Cloning out a disturbance 08:20 Make a copy and add an alpha channel 08:40 Curves tool to change contrast 09:45 Dodge and burn to give more light to the bass 14:00 Second approach 14:15 Give names to layers 15:00 Curves again 16:15 Make a Duotone 17:00 Adding two layers with layer masks 18:30 Chose colours 20:00 Fine tuning with the opacity slider 20:30 Instructions for experiments 22:40 Scaling down 25:00 Correcting scaling artefacts 27:00 Better scaling down in steps 29:30 Why is it better?