When my dear friend and co-blogger Giuliana Abbiati coded a free Photoshop CS5 extension called “False Profiles” I suggested her to add some quick and dirt illustrated examples; then we started wondering that false profiles are a simple yet powerful tool, which may...There have been several public announcements about Dan Margulis’ retirement from his teaching career, most of which made by Dan himself. Yet the time hasn’t come yet, apparently, because a new round of his famous ACT (Applied Color theory) classes is about to take...ALCE2 is a deceptively easy tool that enhances the contrast of an image to really give it some punch. Unlike some filters that have hundreds of options and boxes to click – this one is simple: just one slider. You dial in the amount of effect you want and off it...I use ALCE as part of my main workflow. Very few images will not benefit from a bit of a boost and, remember, what you see on your screen will be much more contrasty than a print. Giving an image a quick once over with ALCE will lift your print quality without a...Normally, when scanning an original photo to obtain a tiff or jpg file, it is necessary to establish a series of settings that are adjusted, as close as possible, to one’s requirements. The quality of this scanning process, therefore, is directly proportional to the...Sharpening with Gaussian and edge-aware blurring kernels; a new experimental approach on High-Radius Low-Amount sharpening; how to separately target edges and texture in the same high frequency range. Gaussian, Bilateral and Mixed pyramid decompositions, efficient... 