VitaminBW: a Steady Path to Black-and-White

An interesting article on Black&White Techniques from moonphotoshop.com, the new website of Marco Olivotto   Black-and-white is pleasure and pain for any photographer – even those who don’t actually use it. About six months ago I stumbled into an interesting...

ALCE and 360° panoramic images

Two suggestion for ALCE processing of equirectangular images to be used building 360 degree panoramas.   By Davide Barranca   Equirectangular images, the ones used to build those beautiful, immersive, 360 degrees panoramas, may require some extra attention...

In-a-Gamma-da-Vida

A false profile (that is, a profile with a non-standard gamma value) can be expressed as pencil-drawn curves generated by Photoshop. While this has little practical relevance, it allows us to understand what assigning a false profile actually does to an image by...

The False Profile – Multiply Technique

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...

Larry Lourcey on ALCE: New Way To Enhance Contrast

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...