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		<title>Pixelation Blog is moving &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t updated since September, so I can&#8217;t justify spending another year on site hosting &#8230; however, I&#8217;ve transferred all of the tutorial posts over to a free Wordpress blog at http://pixelationblog.wordpress.com
Please update your links!!   Thanks!! 
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		<link>http://www.pixelationblog.com/?p=372</link>
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		<title>Tutorial: Calibrating Your Monitor with an i1D2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Working on a calibrated monitor is critical for color-conscious photographers. I calibrate my NEC 3090WQXi and Wacom Cintiq 21UX (I highly recommend both of these monitors!) with an X-Rite i1D2. Here&#8217;s how I do it:
Before you begin, make sure you have
* Installed the driver for your Eye-One Display.
* Installed the software for the X-Rite Match [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pixelationblog.com/?p=350</link>
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		<title>Golden Hour Calculator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, this isn&#8217;t a Photoshop tip &#8230; but as we all know, Photoshop can make a good shot great and a great shot amazing; if you nail your shot in camera, it&#8217;s that much more fun to play around with in post.
Thought some of you (especially natural light photogs) would appreciate this:
The Golden Hour Calculator

From [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pixelationblog.com/?p=348</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Lightroom&#8221; Adjustment Actions for Photoshop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have Lightroom, but I often find myself wanting to make small White Balance, Clarity, Fill Light, and other adjustments on pictures that I&#8217;m working on in Photoshop, and I think it&#8217;s kind of a pain to take those images back into Lightroom or ACR to tweak them in the middle of my PS processing, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pixelationblog.com/?p=338</link>
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		<title>Color Correcting when there is no Neutral Gray &#8211; Part 1 of 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Basic Color Correction: Black, White, and Gray Points
Many people already know that there are three basic steps for achieving accurate white balance / overall color in a photo:
1) Set black point
2) Set white point
3) Set gray point
The quickest (and easiest) way to do this is by opening up a curves (or levels) adjustment layer in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pixelationblog.com/?p=304</link>
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		<title>Correcting Skin Color / Skin Tones in Lightroom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This tutorial is directed primarily at those who use Lightroom in lieu of Photoshop.  There&#8217;s really no substitute for the power of curves, masks, and CMYK number evaluations &#8212; none of which are available to those who do all of their processing in Lightroom. With that said, reasonably accurate skin color corrections can be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pixelationblog.com/?p=252</link>
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		<title>Using Multiple Anchor Points and Correcting &#8220;Gray&#8221; Skin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Little Color Theory
Up to now, we&#8217;ve been pretty focused on skin the context of CMYK colors. Let&#8217;s switch it up for a minute and talk about skin as expressed in RGB values.
You already know that when skin is &#8220;correct,&#8221; Y&#62;M&#62;C (yellow is the highest; cyan is the lowest.).
How can you express that in RGB? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pixelationblog.com/?p=218</link>
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		<title>Creating a &#8220;JPEG&#8221; Profile for your RAW Photos (Lightroom Only)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Think RAW processing is a pain? Want the polished look of JPEGs with the flexibility of RAW&#8217;s uncompressed data and detail retention? You can have it all (or very close to it).
1) Create a custom Camera Calibration Profile 
The first thing you need to do is make sure that you&#8217;ve created a Camera Calibration profile [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pixelationblog.com/?p=190</link>
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		<title>Super Skin Mask: The Magic of the Red Channel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, Jodi Friedman reviewed the basics of masking. I find that, more often than not, some masking is necessary over the course of the skin correction process. It&#8217;s critical that you understand the fundamentals of masking, but I&#8217;m also all for any technique that can make masking (and post processing in general) more efficient [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pixelationblog.com/?p=160</link>
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		<title>Creating a Natural Looking Vignette</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thought I&#8217;d pass along my favorite vignette technique this morning. I like this one because it doesn&#8217;t turn bright areas along the edges gray &#8212; it just darkens that edges that were already darker to begin with.
1) Create a flattened master version of your image (Merge All Duplicate Layer: CTRL+ALT+Shift+E).

2) Select All (CTRL+A or Select&#62;All)
3) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pixelationblog.com/?p=137</link>
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