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Well, we have decided to try blogging. This is the first time we have ever blogged and so it will be a learning experience and hopefully something fun too. To get things off to a good start we have a couple of things of interest to share today.
1. We have posted our video review of Image Trends Inc’s SensorKleen Pro 2.0.2 application. This interesting application takes a series of images from your dSLR (Digital SLR) camera, analyzizes them and then removes dust and other debris that was on the cameras sensor and removes it. While we find this program to be interesting it does seem to have some issues with images that are high in noise (high ISO images). Images with low noise it seems to do a very good job on, but if the noise is too high it will reduce the dust and debris ghosts in the image but will not completely remove them. For that you need to use SensorKleen Pro’s manual Smart Brush tool. Unfortunately you can’t use the manual Smart Brush tool to train SensorKleen Pro where the dust and debris is in the image and then have it batch process the images to remove it. Since the debris is in the same area from image to image it would seem that this would be a good feature to add to the next version of SensorKleen. Personally, I wouldn’t want to have to manually process several hundred images because I shot high ISO.
What our video review and decide for yourself. Even if you decide that SensoKleen Pro isn’t for you, Image Trends Inc. has some other products that are very useful. I especially like the Fisheye-Hemi plug-in for Photoshop. You can view our video review by Clicking Here . If you would like to visit Image Trends Inc’s web site you can do so by Clicking Here.
2. While watching the latest Photoshop User TV episode on my Apple TV unit today the mentioned the Lexar web site and their photography area and that there was a cool tutorial for a Hollywood style effect on there from Scott Kelby. I of course ran right over and took a look. The tutorial is short and sweet. If you do portrait shots and want to add some pizazz to them then you will want to take a look at this tutorial. To view the tutorial Click Here. Look for the tutorial titled “Giving your images that Hollywood look using Photoshop CS3 – Part 1″
