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The Magic of Retouching with Dennis Dunbar

Saturday, July 24

10:00 AM to 2:00 PM

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Los Angeles, CA 90038

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Wednesday, September 22

6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

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Saturday, September 26

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APA San Diego

Affordably Simple Marketing with Juliette Wolf-Robin, VP ADBASE

Tuesday, July 20

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July 16th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: insideColumnist, insideTopic | Leave a comment

Color to B&W: Channel Mixer Vs Black & White

By: Dennis Dunbar, Dennis Dunbar & Assoc.

Dennis Dunbar

When converting images in Photoshop from Color to Black and White there are 2 tools most commonly used, both of these are available as Adjustment Layers: Channel Mixer and Black & White. While the purpose of these tools are similar they work in different ways and [...]

December 5th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , | Category: insideDigital | Leave a comment

10 Channels in PhotoShop?

By Dennis Dunbar, Dunbar Digital 

What if someone asked you “How many channels does your image have?”? My guess is that most people would answer based on the color space the image is in. For instance RGB images would have 3 and CMYK would have 4 right?

What would you say if I told you every [...]

September 24th, 2008 | Tags: , , , | Category: insideDigital | Leave a comment

Divide and Conquer

Color Correction can seem pretty complex at times. For instance when using Photoshop’s Curves adjustment tool every time you adjust one thing it affects something else too. You may have noticed that pulling down on a point in the curves dialogue may also increase saturation, or adding Red will also lighten the image at the [...]

August 17th, 2008 | Tags: , , , | Category: insideDigital | One comment

Nice Print Vs Guide Print

So you get the job, create a great shot and want to deliver a print to your client showing them what your vision for this great image is. What kind of print should you send? One that looks like you want the image to appear right? This is easy to do with your in-studio Epson [...]

April 12th, 2008 | Tags: , , , | Category: insideDigital | Leave a comment

How Big Can you Go?

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Dennis Dunbar

How Big Can you Go?
Dennis Dunbar

You get the job. You get the shot. The client loves it. They want it for more uses. Bigger, bigger, bigger still.  But how big can you go?  One of the biggest questions concerning digitally captured images is “How big can this go?”  Most of the time when [...]

March 11th, 2008 | Tags: , , , | Category: insideDigital | Leave a comment

Communicating Color Effectively

Communicating Color Effectively

Dennis Dunbar

Remember the story about the 3 Blind Men who are shown an animal and asked to describe it? Of course, being blind, they use their hands to feel parts of the animal and then describe what they think the animal is. The first one goes [...]

February 10th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: insideDigital | Leave a comment