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 Wrapping text around a face in Photoshop by Patrick McNair (patmcnairphotography.com) This video, from Pat McNair Photography, demonstrates one way to wrap text around a headshot or portrait image in Adobe Photoshop.

What do we mean by White Balance?

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What do we mean by White Balance? An Article by Patrick McNair  Amongst all the settings on your camera you ’ ll find one for White Balance usually contracted to WB. This might be a button on the camera body or a menu option or both. When we photograph a scene we usually want all of the colours in our scene to be reproduced faithfully in the photograph. That is unless we are trying to be more creative. If we were shooting in white light or daylight the chances are that all of the colours in our image would be the same as the colours in the scene but of course we aren’t always photographing in this type of light and it is more likely that we would be taking photos when there are clouds in the sky or in low light when we need a flash, or under fluorescent lights indoors. If we don’t have some way of ‘telling’ the camera what type of lighting that we are photographing in then it would probably ‘assume’ that we were shooting in white light and the result would be that our photo would