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Another fantastically useful Adobe Photoshop tutorial for our blog, this time taken from the “Quick N’ Easy” series on YouTube.

We hope that our featured tutorials inspire our readers to start tricking out their best photos, ready for a lovely Picture Frames Express frame.

Until next time, The Picture Frames Express Team.

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Just to round off todays earlier post, we’re back with another of ‘Richard Harrington’ A.K.A rhedpixeltv. This one continues on the theme of blending, but also introduces the brilliant Photoshop feature of – ‘Filters’!

Watch this space for more useful Photoshop tutorials to help you spruce up those dull photos, making them worthy of framing!

Until next time, The Picture Frames Express Team

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Here at Picture Frames Express we love pictures! Originals, replicas, manipulations and  all kinds of photos.  As long as it can be framed of course!

We believe that image manipulation programs like Adobe Photoshop for example, are the perfect aid to help you enhance any lifeless photo, to one that is more than worthy of one of our frames! In light of this, we will be featuring a number of photoshop tutorials for all you amateur digital artists and photographers out there!

So get dug in and start making your photos worth framing!

Part 1 features a simple tutorial on Photoshop blending effects, very well explained by ‘Richard Harrington’ A.K.A rhedpixeltv of YouTube fame.

This video is number 156 of a long running series – “Understanding Adobe Photoshop”.

Feel free to look it up and pick  up a few extra skills!

Until next time, The Picture Frames Express Team

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Landscape photography is arguably the most common form of photography, showing wide open spaces, most often devoid of life to express the vastness of area pictured. The only time people are involved in landscape photography is normally for scaling purposes, to convey the size of an object, or to add depth to the photo by giving an idea of distance.

Prior to the California Gold Rush, which gained momentum around 1848, explorers headed west. They brought cameras with them. Beginning around 1860, photographic prints were developed and became widespread. – Source: www.ehow.com

Areas like ‘Monument Valley – Utah’ in the American mid-west are hailed as being the beginning of landscape photography and who could blame them for taking cameras, with immense shots like this just asking to be captured. An endless sprawling desert broken only by huge sand mesa’s. Natural skyscrapers jutting out of the ground in such an unbelievably sparse environment… Beautiful!

The sprawling desert landscape of 'Monument Valley' - Utah

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Alice in Wonderland is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll . It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar and anthropomorphic creatures. Read the rest of this entry »

Top 10 Biggest and Best Jumps Ever

Regular readers will remember our piece on taking the perfect action shots.

Well we have found some stunning examples action photography and some equally stunning Jumps!

In some of those jumps (the parachute one especially) framing the action is as dangerous as performing the stunts!

The result are incredible though, until next time,
Picture Frames Express team.

Painting, Radiohead & Nico Di Mattia

Anyone who reads this blog regularly will know we often post work by the speed painter Nico Di Mattia. His work is amazing and show what can be achieved with photoshop and a LOT of Skill.

Nico has done another piece as a tribute to Radiohead and it does not dissapoint!

Radiohead is one of my favorite bands in all the world. After enjoying their amazing live concert in Buenos Aires, I had to do a special tribute to them. So, I made this particular time lapse speed painting video.

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The use of mirrors and reflections varies from the simple use of checking one’s appearance, to deceiving even the most trained human eye with complex illusions. In photography however, if used correctly – a reflection can double the perceived size of any object or area; so shiny surfaces like water, mirrors or clean glass are powerful tools for photographers.

Extending a space

This technique is most commonly used in landscape photography, focusing around large masses of water like lakes and ponds etc. A good example of this is the photo below, the use of the water helps to double the sense of space in the photo by extending the open sky in both directions. The land edging the water is no longer isolated from the sky, but acts as a divider, suspended in-between 2 alternate and reflected worlds.

Reflections from water used to extend the reach of the open sky in both directions.

Objects or landmass isolated in the water are no longer lost in an image, but become the central focus of the photograph. As demonstrated here, the building shown would only be half the size and lost amidst a field of grass; if it wasn’t for the clever use of the water! Now it appears as a huge castle-like structure floating between two huge layers of cloud and blue sky, no longer lost in the landscape – but the focus of your eye. Read the rest of this entry »

Today’s post will be looking at the wonders of “tilt-shift” photography and the brilliant effects that can be achieved by using this technique. The most common use of this technique is known as “miniature faking” and so will be the focus of this article!

Tilt-Shift miniature faking is a creative technique whereby a photograph of a life-size location or object is manipulated to give an optical illusion of a photograph of a miniature scale model.

Below are a few featured examples of “tilt-shift miniature faking” in action, you won’t believe your eyes!

A full size kids playground, visually tweaked into an ant's playground

Hard to see it as a 1:1 scale, full size and distant shot, isn’t it? Read the rest of this entry »