Wide's World
Sharp Money Vignettes
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Widearea
Squeeze Quality from Your Tits
This week we will look at using the cloning tool in Photoshop to retouch images with natural or artificial flaws. Additionally, we will focus on some more methods of enhancing thumbnail images. To reiterate what we know, the quality demands of our content is mandated by the specific application. Much of this is obviously dictated by the individual webmaster's acumen and preference as well. Some argue that quality thumbs on a gallery page will tend to close more sales than crappy ones. On the other hand, the sponsor is supposed to have the stuff of quality you couldn't possibly offer, so why waste time improving free porn? I shall not attempt to answer that query, but rather leave it to the reader's determination.
Regardless, we must posess the ability to manipulate our content for optimal profit, and that is simply driven by the situation for which the content is implemented. Making good sales on thumbnail gallery posts requires that your gallery be the best in its category. To reach that on many TGP's, it has to kick some ass. That can be achieved in many ways -- with hard selling text links, an innovative design and theme, unique and exclusive content, the right niche, and so on. I would venture to say that it is the combination of these elements that makes a thumbnail gallery generate sales. Other adult web entities such as free sites, AVS, premier paysites, etc. of course, will have varied content demands. I will stay out of the argument and simply get on with the wooly Wide's World freakshow.
A new tool from the toolbar
This week we will use the Rubber Stamp/Cloning tool to retouch small flaws in an image. The key to using this tool is to first select your brush from the Brushes palette, then ALT/OPTION click with the Rubber Stamp tool in an area around the flaw. Then it's as easy as painting over the area by clicking and dragging.
Cloning out the
zits and lens hairs
The Rubber Stamp tool is an easy way to retouch an
image. Simply clone an area and paint with it! Let's look at some basic image
retouching and we'll see that supermodels may in fact be human.
1. Select
File -> Open and locate the image file you want to use.
2. Look
for any blemishes, spots, hairs, etc on your image that you would like to
remove. Click the Zoom tool on the toolbar and click and drag in the area where
the blemish is to zoom in. In the example below we will remove a mole from
between the model's breasts, mostly for the hell of it.
3. Click on the Rubber
Stamp tool in the toolbar to select the cloning tool.
4. Select an
appropriate brush from the brush palette (Select Window -> Show
Brushes)
