Hot Spots, Dead Pixels and Photography

posted by thesaint, Dec 24, 2006 9:33 AM — 9 comments

When selling, printing or generally admiring your prize winning photograph you’ll want to make sure there are no dead pixels in the way.

Dead pixels or dust on the sensor show up on a photograph as a brightly coloured pixel, mine are usually pink. When viewing your photo at 100% in a photo manipulation program such as Photoshop, these blemishes will range from being very clear to very subtle.

Finding these hotspots is usually tricky and searching across a 4000 pixel wide image can take some time. So, this is what I do…

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Handy Curves Tute

posted by thesaint, Jan 10, 2006 3:11 PM — 23 comments

Taking Professional Looking Photos Without a Professional
http://www.theswitchboards.com/articles_professionalphotos.html

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