Accenting Light in Photos with Topaz Star Effects: 50% Off

Accenting Light in Photos with Topaz Star Effects: 50% Off
Winter Photography: 12 Examples of How to Photograph the Cold Season
Stunning Timelapse Photography from the International Space Station (Video)

Posted: 19 Dec 2013 05:24 PM PST

Star Effects from Topaz is designed to help you bring out the best of any light sources in your photograph. With a variety of fully-customizable effect options for modifying sources of light, you can easily add a creative or dramatic flare to lights or reflective surfaces to draw attention. They are offering it at half off until month’s end, simply remember to use the voucher code DECSTAR at checkout. Deal found here: Topaz Star Effects at 50% Off

Topaz Star Effects for Accenting Light (Click to Learn More)

There are some photos with powerful elements that grab your attention. You almost can’t look away.

A great way to achieve this in your own work is to add light effects that naturally accentuate your photo, like light rays, lens flares, and sun beams.

See more example photos here: Photos Processed with Topaz Star Effects

Some of the unique features in Topaz Star Effects:

Great lighting effects - Choose from a variety of beautiful star effects like traditional, starburst, cross, hollywood, and more.
Auto-detect light sources - Use a single click to apply your lighting effect at exactly the right place in your photo.
Completely customizable - Adjust any part of the light effect that you can think of, and never create the same effect twice.

Topaz specifically designed this product to make this process easy. Star Effects includes features to create natural and compelling lighting effects that will make your photos shine.

How to Get a Copy for Half off this Week:

The tool is very easy to install and then appears under your filters menu in Photoshop or other programs. Currently 50% off until the end of the month, simply remember to use the voucher code DECSTAR at checkout.

It can be found here: Topaz Star Effects at 50% Off

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Winter Photography: 12 Examples of How to Photograph the Cold Season

Posted: 19 Dec 2013 03:03 PM PST

Winter is here! I am not talking about the motto of House Stark from Game of Thrones, but a reality. Days are shorter, nights are longer. Temperatures are going down and it’s hard take your camera and leave warm house to wonder around. That’s why we picked out some photos to inspire you a bit. Check it out:

photo by Andrea S.

photo by Mona Lise Normandeau

photo by Lubica

photo by Barbara

photo by Arvidz

photo by Alexey Kljatov

photo by dave murray

photo by Mike Beauregard

photo by Doug Wheller

photo by Alan Grinberg

photo by santo rizzuto

photo by Maarten Takens

There are tons of articles to learn something more about it, so take a look. You can start with Winter Landscape Photography, maybe check some tips, or explore something different like Winter Sports or Winter Lifestyle Fashion Photography! Layer up and enjoy the winter.

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Stunning Timelapse Photography from the International Space Station (Video)

Posted: 19 Dec 2013 10:38 AM PST

Some of the most beautiful and moving photography in the world is the photography done in outer space. For the vast majority of us, space exploration is an impossible dream, but thankfully, there is no shortage of astronauts willing to document their extraterrestrial experiences and share them with the world:

Australian filmmaker David Peterson has always dreamt of exploring space. Using photos taken by astronauts aboard the NASA International Space Station, he combined them to create this timelapse sequence “The World Outside My Window” to give his viewers the sensation of flying through space.

In a previous video, entitled “All Alone in the Night,” (see below) Peterson used images of the Earth’s surface from the space station to similar effect; in this film, he focuses more on the actual experiences of the astronauts, with interior shots of the station and one of the astronaut-photographer himself (Don Pettit).