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Starting With Strobe Photography Without Breaking The Bank

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If you want to get your toes wet with studio strobes you most likely don’t want to break your bank account. This is especially true if you are on a budget. But this shouldn’t withhold you from getting started either.

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A Solution For The Firefox Not Responding Issue

No, this blog isn’t suddenly about browsers and this kind of stuff but this post is much less off topic than you might think in the first place. There is one issue with Firefox that annoyed the crap out of me lately.

It’s not the one that Firefox doesn’t start because it’s already (invisible) active in the background. No, as with every application you can easily solve this by shutting down the task in the task manager.

The most annoying issue is that Firefox will freeze ten or twenty times a day stating that it’s not responding. Sometimes it will come back to life again sometimes it will not before my patience has vanished.

So it was time for a solution.

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The Weird Pricing Of Mediamarkt’s Printing Service

Recently I’m testing some photo printing services over here in the Netherlands. When I reached the order page of Mediamarkt during the process I was faced with a very weird pricing system.

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RAW Edit For The Fro Week 60

This time the image for the RAW edit of the week is taken by Adam Lerner backstage at the New York Fashion Week.

Other than I say in the vid the bit off focus on the eyes is caused rather by the the slow shutter speed than the shallow DOF.

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5 Minutes Freestyle Drawing #8

It’s a boy!

Yes, for the first time since I started this little series I could resist the temptation to draw a female character.

Another premiere is that I’m in real time in the video itself rather than speeding it up and doing the voice over. I thought this would cause me to stay within the five minutes.

And as you can see: forget about that!

This time you see me obey the guidelines I prepare for this drawing in Manga Studio entirely. This is because I want to give you a basic of how you can create something just by starting with some basic lines and shapes and then going from there.

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Ageing – How To Let Your Character Look Older

There is a little fact to know if you want to let your character look a little bit older. Let’s have a look at it in todays short video.

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Manga Studio Quick Tip #17

In today’s quick tip we have a look at how useful it can be to import a layer from a former drawing we made.

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RAW Edit For The Fro Week 59

As this week RAW file by Jared Polin contains without a doubt a cool looking model it’s time to participate in the weekly RAW edit thing. Yes, again.

This time I also have a little critique on the image itself.

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