Digital Background – Digital Photography

By Adriana Bella

Digital backdrops often have themes that help create so much more than just the background in any picture that they are applied to. They set the mood and tone for the onlooker. This may be difficult to understand unless you visualize the outcome of a background that is applied to a photograph. Take for instance a picture of a little girl. If you set this photo against a backdrop full of flowers and greenery it will look like summer. But with the lovely warm rust and brown colors of autumn the whole tone and the mood of the picture will change so that you will be thinking of autumn. Then again it can be turned into a farmyard look with the appropriate background.

Creating a mood is easy with digital backdrops. At the same time you can improve the photograph for an onlooker by enhancing a background that is already there. For example, if the sky was overcast on a certain day when the photograph was taken and you want to present it in a better light, then all you have to do is add a background that is clearer and sunnier. This will give you a picture that evokes happy thoughts and not give a chilly look that the overcast sky originally gave. So, you can see how important a background can be for a photograph and for the onlooker.

As a photographer it is important to learn how to use this tool to your advantage. When you learn the basics of digital backdrops and how to use them to set a mood or tone of a certain photograph creating delightful and professional looking photographs will be very easy to do. The one aspect that will be left entirely up to you is the choice of what background is suitable for which photograph.

The choice of the digital background has to be done carefully. Although anything is possible it should be done tastefully so that it will compliment the photograph and not make it look absurd. If you use a nursery background for a wedding photo it will look thoroughly out of place and silly. But, on the other hand, if you use a fantasy digital background for a children’s photograph it could turn out to be rather magical. So, in creating beautiful, tastefully done photographs with appropriate backgrounds you will be setting the mood for the onlooker.

Creating these moods can be easy with the digital backdrops from http://www.artcodesign.com and its counterpart http://www.premiumbackdrops.com . They offer a variety of digital backdrops that will suit any theme that you wish to set your photographs to. Try them today and feel the magic ooze out of your professional looking photographs. Be brave and experiment and this way you will learn how best to use these digital backdrops in your photographs and enhance their mood.

By Gavin Smith

By Angel Wood

A few years ago the digi-world was more of an out-of-sight and out-of-mind concept but when its capabilities were realized, it was understood to be one best technical medium and large format film has better resolution than the cameras that are available in today’s time. The advantages of shooting film are far better than thought. It could be said that a majority of portrait photography professionals are making use of digital technology now. Newness has been seen in digital backdrops. More number of photographers is making use of Chroma key background when shooting. Initially photographers showed reluctance in terms of making use of it but as time passed, the technique demonstrated its capabilities and thus gained ample popularity all through the world. If you are still in a state of perplexity then here are a few benefits mentioned relating using green screen backdrop while shooting.

• Possibly the best money saving means is this! Traditional backdrops if you have been planning to buy then you might need spending quite an amount on it.

• Portability! What do you think about it? Definitely, it is just one thing that you would have to carry with you everywhere whenever you want to shoot a movie or still photographs.

• Whether it is a sight of sea swamped with aquatic animals is what you want to show or a wilderness covered in green with exotic animals, all can be done easily as you have the liberty to select the background of your choice.

Shooting with the help of this technique isn’t tricky at all. However it is essential that when using, backdrop is evenly lit in order to get good quality results. With the latest technology, you could alter the background like in Photoshop. If you take up the help from here then it would be wise to make use of range of colors or eraser for background. When you need placing something in the background, digital images could be used in every form. Shooting with Chroma key gives you all the freedom to do whatever is desired and this means that a photographer can literally create a magic.

Myself webmaster of 123videomagic.com from where you can buy chroma key backdrops, background images and hardware for green screen studio that helps in customizing video and images by replacing their background to make them look more appealing.

By Jeff Walton

The world is filling up with great phones, that run email, internet, and amazing applications for games, utilities, networking, you name it and there is an application that does it. And we’re not limited to one option either.

There are a number of options for smart phones that offer great features to meet all of our everyday needs, and pass-time habits as well. Oh, and they also make calls and send text messages, image messages, video, calendars, so on and so on.

It’s also really awesome that you can make your phone personalized. Not only do you personalize your voicemail greeting, but you personalize your settings. This includes how your phone behaves when certain things happen. Vibrate, ring, buzz, sing a song, light up, the list goes on.

My favorite part of my phone is that I can customize the background wallpaper. I change the background every few days just to jazz up my phone so I remember how cool it is and how much I enjoy having it. The best part is, there are a number of great and easy ways to customize the background wallpaper on your mobile phone. You can create your own if you have the right software, and there are tons of great websites that offer free or very cheap downloads of wallpapers.

If you would like to create your own wallpaper, here are a few easy steps.

1) Create an image of some sort that you think will make a great wallpaper. Keep in mind the device you are creating the wallpaper for and do your best to size the art appropriately so that it fits the screen. You want the art to fill the screen at full resolution so that it will appear crisp, but you do not want to have to crop too much of the wallpaper art to where it is not visible.

2) Save the image to your hard drive as a JPeg image file with RGB color settings.

3) Load the JPeg image onto your cell phone or mobile device. Most phones have a photo library, this will be the best place to save the image on your phone.

4) All operating systems are a little different, but you will need to go to the Settings menu and select the Wallpaper section. From there you will be guided to selecting the image to use as your wallpaper background. Many phones will let you scale and scroll the image to where you would like the wallpaper to fit.

5) Save the wallpaper background and you are done.

Each screen size is different, so before creating and finalizing the image you should find out what the screen resolution is of the device. This screen size will be in the form of pixels. Obviously, screens range in size from large desktop screens, to tiny mobile phone screens.

An examples for what these numbers will look like would be 640×960, which is a very modern, high definition screen size for a mobile phone. The first number is the width of the screen in pixels, the second number is the height of the screen. So the screen size is 640 pixels wide by 960 pixels tall.

As stated before, there are many options for customizing your wallpaper background. You may have a photo you like that you think would make a great wallpaper. Using that image, follow the steps above to turn your photo into a wallpaper that will make your phone your own.
There are also a number of websites that offer free wallpapers for download, such as Digital Art Depot http://digital-art-depot.com. Many sites offer the wallpaper in different formats, so do a little research to exactly what size wallpaper you need to fit the screen you are wishing to add the image background to.

Needless to say that the possibilities for jazzing up your phone, the only limit being your imagination. Want a screen background of a solid color? Create one for yourself. Want a crazy design? Create or add one of those as you please. Looking for a sexier background? Those are available too. It all depends on your preferences.

Now find a background for your phone and have fun. Change it twice a week if you like. That way your friends will always wonder if you have a new phone.

Digital Art Wallpaper Backgrounds.

By Mandi Pralle

A Photoshop Action is a preprogrammed command or series of commands that one can record and replay in order to save time and reduce the monotony of the repeated actions often required during the development of visual media. It includes all automated commands available within the program through its various menus. For example, if there are a series of steps that a designer prefers to follow in order to achieve a certain effect, that artist can program those steps into one Photoshop Action with the option to create a shortcut key for that action so that this effect can be applied automatically. As another example, if there is a certain format in which a designer must save all of his or her work, a Photoshop Action can be recorded that goes through the entire “Save As” process. This would result resulting in a save that can be completed with the push of a button similar to how one would save a project with the default extension, which can save a good amount of time.

How It Is Done

A Photoshop Action is programmed as follows. Initially, one must ensure that the History/Action window is visible. If not, one can select “Show History” or “Show Actions” from the “Window” menu. Once the History/Action window has been identified, select the “Actions” tab. From there, select the right-pointing arrow just below the “Exit” (“x”) button, which opens up the window’s menu. From the menu, select “New Action…,” which appears first on the list. One can then name the action, select the set under which the action will fall under (this does not need to be changed if one is not interested in stratifying his or her actions), set the color scheme that is associated with this action, and select the shortcut key that will initiate this action, if desired. Once this is completed, click the “Record” button that appears above the “Cancel” button.

The window will disappear and the user can then perform the set of commands of which he or she would like the Action to be comprised. Although the program would then be recording the commands input by the user, it does not record the amount of time it takes to perform these commands. Therefore, any amount of time can be spent recording the commands so that no mistakes are programmed into the Action as well. Once all of the necessary commands have been performed, the user can then open the menu from the arrow in the Actions window and select “Stop Recording,” which will likewise be the first option on the list. The Photoshop Action is thus created. A user can then apply this action whenever necessary by either selecting it from the list within the Actions window or by pressing the designated shortcut keys.

One must bear in mind that Photoshop Actions only apply to automated commands within the program. Subsequently, it excludes all actions performed through the tools menu, such as hand drawn lines, selections, erasures, and paintbrush functions. It is merely used for a series of steps that would otherwise require navigation to various menus followed by numerous selections. In other words, one can program an automated shadow rendering Action by manipulating various menu settings such as the creation of adjustment layers, copy-pastes, the application of bevels and other filers, layer property adjustments, and rasterizations. Alternately, one cannot automatically shadow an object by recording various maneuvers using the dodge and burn tools.
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