Design Archive

  • before&after

    Hollywood Highlights Tutorial

    In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to achieve the Hollywood Highlights effect, that you can find in my latest group of actions. 1.  If you have retouched the image and made density corrections, press crtl-shift-alt-E to make a merged copy of the...

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  • action-ss

    Launch of AllyKatDesign Actions

    Hello loyal readers of my blog , I have launched a set of AllyKatDesign Actions to make photoshopping your images a little bit easier, especially if you’re like me and want everything NOW! A couple of the actions are set up for a flattened image,...

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  • dave-hill-style

    Dave Hill Style Photography revisited

    Been a little while since I have written a tutorial, so I thought I would make it a good one I’ve been thinking again about the earlier Dave Hill tutorial that I have written and I don’t think that I did his work justice, so...

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  • Shoot with Spyke

    Shoot with Spyke

    A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of shooting with one of the most wonderful models that I have ever worked with! He was an absolute inspiration and is now my muse. It was incredible to work with someone, where every photo and...

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  • New twist for business cards

    New twist for business cards

    Lately I have been searching for some interesting ideas for business cards as its time to order some more. Of course I’ll be ordering them from Moo.com again as the quality was unsurpassed the last time. I came across a website that will create tag...

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  • Website update for the new year

    Website update for the new year

    Phew has it been a busy start to the year!!! A few restorations, a wedding, retouching jobs and websites to do and I don’t know where the time has gone! I have finally added a restoration section to my portfolio which will be updated again...

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  • Quick & Easy Monitor Calibration

    Quick & Easy Monitor Calibration

    Today I finally set up my second monitor for my computer. A bit of a kerfuffle as I needed to get a DVI To SVGA/VGA adapter in order to plug it into my graphics card. Half hour wait at the computer shop got me the...

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  • Popular AllyKatDesign T-Shirts

    Popular AllyKatDesign T-Shirts

    Phew xmas is over!! What a turbulent time. I apologise for my silence as of late, but it seems that everyone needs a rush job done before xmas! So I have organised a little treat for my loyal readers and gathered up all the popular...

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  • Brendan B Website

    Brendan B Website

    The new look Brendan B Photography website has been rolled out!! Not much has changed for those of you have visited the site previously, except it has become more polished and sleek. It still features the same easy to navigate menu and gallery, and the...

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  • Peninsula Hapkido website

    Peninsula Hapkido website

    The new Peninsula Hapkido website has been rolled out!! There isn’t much content yet, just a home page and a contact page, but its slowly filling up with more content soon The form has also been updated to thank the person that submitted it, which...

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