PPS has added greeting cards and Press products to it’s ROES product lineup- just in time for the holidays!
In addition to ordering your photographic printing needs thru PPS’s ROES ( Remote Order Entry System) , you can now place orders for greeting cards, folded specialty cards, or design your own to upload to us!
click the link below to get started!
Due to the declining demand for slides, PPS has dropped E-6 film processing from it’s list of services we offer.
We do however, continue to offer C-41 as well as Black and white film processing.
We regret any inconvenience this may cause for our clients.
PPS’s Clayton Spangler was asked to be one of Three selected speakers and lead a Photo Walk About for the Professional Photographers of West virginia’s Fall Convention to be held October 11th and 12th in Oak hill, West Virginia.
( Must be an active PPWV member and registered participant of the PPWV Fall Convention to participate )
The Walk About will be a social gathering of photographers, meeting in a specified area of town or other location to walk around, shoot photographs, get to know one another, learn and have fun!
Attend the Artist’s Vision before dinner on Sunday afternoon, to learn more about the walk, where it will be, what we will do, and why we are doing it.
Then meet in the lobby of the Holiday Inn on Monday morning to travel together to the location, armed with your cameras. Casual dress and comfortable walking shoes are recommended.
Clayton will choose the starting point and basic route. Once the walk starts, you may move at your own pace, photographing things you find of interest—shooting and exploring along the way. At 11:00, the group will return to the hotel for wrap up, with instructions about what to do with the images.
Images from the Walkabout will be posted to PPWV’s website and facebook page for all to enjoy!
Original
With contrast mask applied
Ever have an image where you need to see some detail in the dark areas, while bringing down some of the highlights? Then contrast masking may work for you!
Start by creating a duplicate layer of your image in Photoshop ( LAYERS palette, left click on your image and drag to the bottom right side-open folder Icon- to create a new layer )
Invert ( Mac: CMD+I PC: Ctrl + I) and desaturate the copy to give a Black and White negative appearance.
Go to the layers palette and under Blend Mode, change to Overlay .
The last step is to go to FILTER > Blur> Guassian blur and raise the radius level ( start around 4, you’ll be able to adjust this and see what works best for you)
If you need to tone down the look, change the opacity of the copy layer via the opacity control in the layers aplette.
The effect is to open up your shadows with more detail while bringing down the highlights.
Starting May 1st, 2009 PPS will be closed on weekends.
Regular business hours will be weekdays from 9:00am til 5:30 pm
PPS will be closed April 11th and 12th ( saturday and Sunday) for the Easter holiday.
We will be back to our regular hours on Monday April 13th.
Photo Courtesy of the Southern WV Photovoice Project; Photo by Vernon Haltom
PPS has been working on the printing and mounting of the display images for the Southern West Virginia Photovoice Exhibit ( at the Clay Center, Charleston- April 17, 5-9 pm)
For the past seven months, 40 women from five communities in Southern West Virginia have been participating in a Photovoice project to “tell the story” of their communities. This project is an effort to increase civic engagement in rural communities and to give voice to residents’ concerns and ideas for change.
Want more infor mation on the Southern WV Photovoice Project? CLICK HERE
PPS is pleased to announce a special introductory offer for purchasers of photoDUDS new line of DUDdrops !
DUDdrops are HUGE graphic files that let you design custom backdrops. Simply colorize, print, hang, then start shooting!
PPS will print out your DUDdrop background as a 4′x8′ large graphic print for only $115.00 +shipping
( regularly $160.00-that’s a savings of $45.00! )
don’t have a dudDROPS product yet? CLICK HERE
After you’ve purchased your DUDdrop , make any changes you need then utilize PPS’s FTP site to send us your file to print!
To take advantage of this special offer, you will need to contact PPS to access your FTP account.
You may either call 1-800-579-2464 or email us at support@photoproduction.com with DUDdrop in the subject line *please include your contact information in the body of the email.
If you have a Bogen tripod or Bogen tripod head, you know they are very well made pieces of equipment.
What you may not know is how hard it is to get a part to fix one if something breaks!
While you can go to the Bogen website and look at schematics to get part numbers, they don’t actually have an “online” part order system.
To this end, you have to search the site a little to come up with the following information:
Bogen imaging
parts@bogenimaging.com
Tel 201 818 9500
Fax 201 818 9177
Be ready with the model information and part number ( if available) to expedite your service needs.
Ever wonder how people make those “sketches” of people and places in Photoshop® ?
Here’s how it’s done:
Open the image to be transformed
*Optional step – Desaturate layer *
Make a duplicate layer of original (Control/Command + J )
Inverse layer ( Control/Command + I )
Go to Layer > select Layer Style> Blend Options > Color Dodge> Click OK
* your image view will turn all white- it’s supposed to look that way*
Go to Filter > Gaussian Blur > adjust to taste.
That’s all there is to it- a cool “sketch” effect made easy
