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    How To Play With Texture in Photoshop

    © 2008 Wazari Wazir | Playing With Photoshop Texture Recently someone have asked me how to do Texture in Photoshop, should they do it in colors or should they turn the picture into black and white or sepia before proceed with texture layering. My answer is, up to you. Why? You may ask, it is because there is no rules when doing texture in Photoshop, you can do it in color or in monochromatic image, but there is a guide that you wanted to know in order to make your texture work look great. If you are interested, then read on. First thing first, the number one reason why I…

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    Which Lens To Buy?

    © 2010 Wazari Wazir | A Portrait First things first, If you are a millionaire photographer, please skip this article, don’t waste your time here deciding which lens to buy, since you have a lot of money to spend but if you are just regular photographer like me which must make a hard decision to save our hard earn money then read on. Here I will discuss just about two favorite portrait lens, 50mm and 85mm lens. For this shot I use Nikkor 50mm f1.4 lens, much cheaper than legendary Nikkor 85mm f1.4 lens. Here I will discuss about this two lens, 85mm and 50mm and why I choose 50mm…

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    A Child Mind

    © 2010 Wazari Wazir | A Portrait of My Son “We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today”. ( Stacia Tauscher ) My Son HaiQal is getting harder to photograph these days, he got his own mind already, in fact it was too difficult to get him out of the house because he know that I will be taking his picture, instead he like to be in the house watching cartoon on the television. Lately he like to watch Mickey Mouse cartoon, keep on repeating playing that cartoon, he is the Boss in the house, I wish I have another television…

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    The Artistic Touch

    I’m in the process of making my second Photoshop eBook, my eBook will show you how to play with Texture, my first eBook is about Photoshop Tone, how to get vintage or old school kind of effect, so this time I will share my texture technique, how do I apply texture from scratch. A lot of people can get texture for free but most of them have very little idea how to apply them and blend it well with the picture. I’ve been playing around with the texture for more than two years already and I’ve learn a lot from trial and error. In my eBook I’ll try my level…