McFarland Photography » Free http://www.mcfarlandphotography.org/blog Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:02:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Poladroid: A Free, Fun Tool! http://www.mcfarlandphotography.org/blog/2009/03/03/poladroid/ http://www.mcfarlandphotography.org/blog/2009/03/03/poladroid/#comments Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:09:02 +0000 Carol http://www.mcfarlandphotography.org/blog/2009/03/03/poladroid/ Warning: call_user_func_array() [function.call-user-func-array]: First argument is expected to be a valid callback, 'Array' was given in /home/billmcfa_1/mcfarlandphotography.org/blog/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 166
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poladroid, originally uploaded by calligraphycarol.

Heather from Heather Green Photography posted a link about a new free software you can use to make a nostalgic polaroid-type look out of any digital photo file. It’s easy to use and it looks and sounds just like a polaroid camera, right on your desktop. The image appears slowly, just like it used to with a polaroid camera. Try it for yourself! And then join their Flickr group.
www.poladroid.net/index.php
www.flickr.com/groups/poladroid/

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Together forever, originally uploaded by calligraphycarol.

I made a storyboard of a client’s photos from a session with them. They were really fun to photograph. The husband kept cracking me up. My husband and I both took pictures, so these are from both of us. Check his photostream out here: www.flickr.com/photos/billmcfa/
Adapted from DawnMPhotography’s free template for photographers.
Thanks Dawn!

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You make life worth living, originally uploaded by calligraphycarol.

This is my son and the girl he’s courting. :)
I used some free presets for Lightroom, and a free texture (image 1273) for the background, and one of my own wordarts. Here are the links to these products:
www.presetsheaven.com/2008/11/19/5-new-free-presets-creat…
www.bittbox.com/category/freebies/page/5/
www.1hourscrap.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_in…

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books are his life, originally uploaded by calligraphycarol.

My DH loves books! See how he’s totally immersed in this one?! HA
You can make your own fun, realistic photos here:
http://www.photofunia.com

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]]> Thanks to a flickr friend for the link to this website: obamiconme.pastemagazine.com. You can do your own poster! :) If you visit, add mine as a favorite! :) This is my daughter, Rebekah…she was a very willing model.

You can make your own Obamicon, too!

You can make your own Obamicon, too!

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It IS a pretty cool place to go if you want to make an interesting avatar. You can have your face on a museum wall, or made into a puzzle or Rubik’s cube, or be the center of attention for the paparazzi.
Try it yourself, it’s fun!

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I came across a website that gives away Photoshop actions yesterday and tried one of them out. It makes a Polaroid photo (called A2D Polaroid600) out of your photo. :)

I had already figured out how to make polaroids, but this is nice that someone has made up an action plug-in and you can get a polaroid just by clicking the play button!

This a polaroid of Renée I made from a picture I took yesterday while we were on location shooting the www.absolutiontv.com promo. The little kids were having fun with an outdoor air conditioning unit making their hair blow.

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