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	<title>Michael Sweeney Photography &#187; painting</title>
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		<title>Painting for Photographers</title>
		<link>http://www.michaelsweeneyphotography.com/blog/2010/10/30/painting-for-photographers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Oct 2010 17:58:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Sweeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a photographer, I am not a painter or at least I'm not in the classic sense of the word. But, as a portrait photographer, I use light and shadow just like a painter does to add texture and depth to my subject. Karen's book really helps with understanding what makes a painting work and why it is different at times than a picture. I will say that while she is mostly oriented to the user of PainterX or Painter 11, she does not leave out the CS5 users who have the new bristle brushes and blending modes. Much of what she teaches crosses over to both. For example, when painting in the background, things like transitions, blending of hair, using different brush textures are not specific to one application but can be used by many different applications.]]></description>
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		<title>Final Westcott Competition Entries</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Sweeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of you know that Westcott did a pretty crazy cool thing at Photoshop World this year in Vegas. They set up four shooting sets and had live models, lights, props and watchers on hand and then let the public go nuts shooting the models. The payoff if that IF you enter their contest and IF you win, your image will be the Westcott catalog and you get some lighting equipment. And let me tell you that after shooting with their spiderlights, I'm lusting after a set of those lights! Cool, nicely balanced and bright, they are easier than strobes when shooting something like this where a subtle change in position or expression can have a profound impact in the image. Since the lights are continuous, you can shoot as fast as you can click the shutter without worry of the strobe not keeping up.]]></description>
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		<title>Why edit snapshots?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Sweeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The trick is to pick the keeper image and then swap out the subject for a better version. In this case, I swapped out Sara's back side shot to the one of her facing me and put it on the good bubble shot. The magic is in how to use masks and the pain brush. It's effortless since we do not have the cut out the subject, just get around the subject.]]></description>
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		<title>Further Development</title>
		<link>http://www.michaelsweeneyphotography.com/blog/2010/07/18/further-development/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 20:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Sweeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ I love digital painting. I love taking a sharp and detailed photograph and turning it into a painting or close to a painting that lacks the sharp details but has a wonderful texture and feel to it that a photograph is lacking. I will also add that a Wacom or other graphics tablet is pretty much required to do this well. A mouse is painful to use when you want to paint and you will get frustrated with it. In my case, I did try painting without the tablet and then I bought a used tablet for a cheap price to see if I really wanted to stay with it. I just bought a new medium Intuos 4 Wacom so I have committed myself to this style of post processing.]]></description>
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