patdavid

patdavid

Lives in United States Mobile, AL, United States
Works as a Director R&D
Has a website at http://blog.patdavid.net
Joined on Nov 6, 2011

Articles

patdavid | Published on May 7, 2013 |
Noise removal through simply taking a number of the same shot, and median combining them in post.
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patdavid | Published on Mar 29, 2013 |
A complete portrait session walk-through including capturing the image, and all of the step-by-step postprocessing to finish the image.
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patdavid | Published on Mar 12, 2013 |
A method for reproducing Calvin Hollywoods "Freaky Details" effect in GIMP + G'MIC
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patdavid | Published on Feb 7, 2013 |
A (hopefully) comprehensive look at methods for converting images to B&W (grayscale) in GIMP. Covers just about every available option, as well as pointers and thoughts on using them.
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patdavid | Published on Jan 24, 2013 |
Using open source software (Enfuse) to blend focus stacks of images in macro photography to increase depth of field.
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patdavid | Published on Nov 14, 2012 |
"Content Aware Fill" in GIMP using Resynthesizer and the "Heal Selection" script provides an amazing means to build textures to replace portions of an image.
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patdavid | Published on Mar 6, 2012 |
Using a hyper-detailed 3D model as a portrait lighting test for various lighting types and modifiers.
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patdavid | Published on Jan 25, 2012 |
There are many methods of approaching skin retouching and smoothing, but few that provide as much power and capability as frequency separation in GIMP through the Wavelet Decompose plugin.
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