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Fixing soft focus in Photoshop

Fixing soft focus in Photoshop

Cameras are much more likely to generate a soft focus under low light. The Smart Sharpen filter has the most options of any sharpening filter built into Photoshop. It allows you to choose the sharpening algorithm as well as control the amount of sharpening in shadow and highlight areas. This filter can produce dramatically better…

Nick Brandt and Jo-Anne McArthur On Photography and Creating Change for Animals

Nick Brandt and Jo-Anne McArthur On Photography and Creating Change for Animals

This summer, We Animals Media Founder Jo-Anne McArthur sat down with world-renowned photographer Nick Brandt for a conversation on spellbinding images, bearing witness to animal suffering, speciesism, the emerging genre of animal photojournalism (APJ), and creating change in a desperate world. With their permission, we’ve republished their discussion here. Find the original article here. James and Fatu, Kenya, 2020….

Sort and edit vacation photos in a snap, part one

Sort and edit vacation photos in a snap, part one

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How to convert Excel to PDF: 3 easy methods

How to convert Excel to PDF: 3 easy methods

But there’s a catch: Spreadsheets can be sensitive. And if you’re using formulas to input information, you need to take steps to retain your formatting. Rather than risk ruining your Excel data summary, many people convert Excel spreadsheets into PDFs to save the formatting and get easily shareable charts. Luckily, learning how to convert Excel…