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Chromatic Aberrations and HDR

Get an automatic 15% discount on any Photomatix product.  Simply enter the coupon code photoluminary during your order. Chromatic aberrations, which are also commonly called “color fringing”,  are a common problem in HDR photography.  This is a type of distortion caused by a lens, typically a cheaper model or a wide angle lens.  The lens […]

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Texturevault

Texturevault, which is a premium source of royalty free textures, has only been around for a few years now.  Despite their relative newcomer status in the world of microstock, they have garnered quite a bit of success. As a contributor at Texturevault, I make nearly as much on only selling my textures, as I do […]

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Free Textured Backgrounds

There are a a great many sources of free textured backgrounds Online.  While these days I generally make my own, in the past and sometimes still today, I go on a hunt for the perfect texture or background to use in my art and design.  I’ve also collected textured backgrounds and modified them to suit […]

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Shutterstock – Submit Photos For Money

When I first began to submit my photos to Shutterstock, I wasn’t sure that I was going to make any money.  I must admit that it took more than one try to be accepted there as a contributor, and my current portfolio is very small, but it was more than worth the effort.  I consistently […]

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Noise Reduction – Photomatix Pro

For a 15% discount on any Photomatix product, enter the coupon code photoluminary during your order. The newest version of Photomatix Pro, version 4, now offers a very high quality noise reduction option.  The previous version of Photomatix Pro only applied noise reduction to the merged 32-bit result, rather than to the source images.  With […]

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HDR Tutorial – Photomatix Pro 4

Welcome to my HDR tutorial and Photomatix Pro Version 4 Review Get a 15 % discount on any Photomatix product by entering the coupon code photoluminary during your order from HDRsoft.com.  Photomatix Pro is typically $99, so that’s quite a discount! Last July, I wrote a Photomatix tutorial which was aimed at beginning HDR photographers. […]

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