Jay Arraich Photography
and Photoshop Tips

Photoshop Tips
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  • Photoshop Tips - Clear, simple, instruction intended for beginners. Find extensive coverage of the tools, palettes, effects, and filters. Step-by-step, well illustrated tutorials cover all the basic editing procedures.
  • Photoshop Elements Tips - Elements is a new application that Adobe has introduced to replace Photoshop LE. It is based on the PS 7.0 code, but sells for as little as $99 with special offers from places like Amazon as low as $29.00. Find tutorials, and thorough coverage of its tools and palettes.
  • Advanced Elements - For those Elements 2 and Photoshop 7 users who are interested in making quality digital art and who are ready for more advanced tutorials, I have written an electronic book (.pdf on CD). It is accompanied by linked Quicktime screen capture videos. Now available for sale via PayPal.
 
Free Photos Index
  • Free Photos - Eighty black and white prints (and eight color) that you can download for personal use. Landscapes, animals, flowers, fruit, pickled things, and lots of snakes.
    Go to Free Photos
 
Animal Rights short story
  • Animal Rights - This is a short story about a woman who has a very strange visitor that she can’t get rid of.
    Go to page one of ‘Animal Rights’
 
  • The Belief Game - When a ten year old girl plays a game of belief with her great aunt, the line between imagination and reality blurs.
    Go to page one of ‘The Belief Game’
 
Contact Sheets sequence
  • Contact Sheets
    Look at my unedited contact sheets. See just how bad I can be.This should be a source of inspiration for young photographers who think they’re the only ones who make lousy pictures.
 
compare 4x5 and 35mm quality
  • Technotes - A few details of my camera, and developing techniques.
  • Darkroom - Photos, and description of my darkroom.
  • View Camera - What is a view camera and why are they better? Take a look at mine.
  • Quality Comparison - Image quality comparison of photographs produced from 4x5 and 35mm film.
  • Film Comparison - If you have never seen a sheet of 4x5 film, take a look. Size makes the difference.
  • Why Black and White? - See why I think black and white is better.
  • Favorites - Links to outstanding black and white photographer’s sites.
 
 
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