12 Jan 09 Alien Skin – Bokeh
Hi
After a long time working on our main site we are back with review. Alien Skin has provided us with their collection of professional photoshop plugins and we will start reviewing them in the next few week. It takes that long we they have a lot and are very, very good so we want to grill them 
I have started to have a first look at Bokeh which I wanted to use for one of my own photos. The photo “Life Goes By” is a nice photo (see below) but the man isn’t really standing out due to the big depth-of-field and That is what Bokeh does best.
Having never worked with the plug-in before I had first a look at the videos on the Alien Skin website and saw how easy it is altering an image with this software. The steps I took where:
1. Selecting the man with the “quick selecting” tool in Photoshop
2. Create a channel mask of the selection
3. Used a Gaussian blur for the edges of the selection
4. Opened the Bokeh plug-in
5. Selected a 20% Nikon 105mm 2.8 prefix
6. Selected Bokeh – selection – plane
7. and altered the top part of the images
8. Save the work the plug-in had done
9. Opened the plug-in again and repeated step 6
10. but now altered the bottom part of the images
11. saved my work
This all was around 15 minutes work and I hope you agree that it has improved the image a lot.
Our first impression: This plugin is its money worth
The Team
Tags: Alien Skin, Bokeh, photoshop, Plugin
13 Oct 08 The new photoshop CS4
Hello,
Just a quick update. I have tried to get the new Photoshop CS4 from adobe under a student license and they are recognize the professional photography course. This means that you can get your adobe software from very low prices. I have pre-ordered the adobe create suite 4 premium, which have a full license price of £1.467.58, for £276,12 which is 19% of the shop price!!!
Ask for an proof of student from the professional photography course and order at : https://store2.adobe.com/cfusion/store/html/index.cfm?store=OLS-EDU-UK&event=displayCatalog&catalogOID=1781053
And the course has already paid for itself.
Happy shooting
Tags: adobe, cs4, photoshop, professional photography course, professional photography diploma, the photo student
