PhotoFrame 4 Review by PC World

May 11, 2009 by Mike Wong • Comments Off

pframe_box_2-webSally Wiener Grotta & Daniel Grotta have posted a review of PhotoFrame 4 Standard Edition over at PC World's website. My favorite quote from the review is "Luckily, with this well-designed plug-in, you don't need advanced imaging skills--your pictures will simply look like you already have them."

Create your own frames for PhotoFrame

February 25, 2009 by Mike Wong • 3 Comments

If you've ever wanted to create your own frames for PhotoFrame 4 but didn't know exactly how to go about it, this video is for you. Dave Cross has created this video to show you how he creates a customized frame using a variety of Photoshop techniques and then how to import it into PhotoFrame 4 so you can use it and get the benefits of PhotoFrame with it.

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsG1QNX9nao]

Another way Dave Cross uses PhotoFrame

February 19, 2009 by Mike Wong • Comments Off

Here's another video from Dave Cross from the National Association of Photoshop Professionals on how he uses PhotoFrame 4. If you use Adobe Bridge and PhotoFrame 4, this is a must-watch video. Dave shows how to create an Action in Photoshop that calls a PhotoFrame 4 preset and then how he calls that Action from within Adobe Bridge. Very slick.

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvkwviwr0LE]

Rick Sammon on PhotoFrame 4

February 12, 2009 by Mike Wong • Comments Off

Rick Sammon was kind enough to put together a quick video on how he uses PhotoFrame 4 on his photos. Check it out!

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhod91yjHfo]

You can watch a larger version here.

My Take on Polaroid in the Digital Age

December 8, 2008 by Mike Wong • 1 Comment

Mamiya Super 23 polaroid tribute
Creative Commons License photo credit: dsevilla

This month's issue of PC Photo magazine has a nice article by Mark Edward Harris on learning how to keep the creative look of Polaroid film alive in the digital darkroom. You can read the article online here.

While the article (and the images by photographer Sachi Kato) are very nice, it assumes that you, as the photographer, have a library of old Polaroid film edges at your disposal to recreate this look.

If you don't have a these for whatever reason, there's another way that you can do this in a very quick and easy way.

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