April 28th, 2011 admin Location: Raleigh, North Carolina
When it comes to fighting one thing is sure, if the fight takes place, there will be a winner and there will be a looser. Both GSP and Shields are very used to winning. Both are good at the game of fighting. Both fighters have important weapons that they will use to their benefit. To name just a few, Jake Shields has a great Jiu-Jitsu game, great resiliency, he knows how to stay out of trouble on the ground, he also knows how to capitalize on small mistakes, he is good at conserving energy and he comes to this fight as an underdog and therefore nobody expects him to win, the moment he walks into that octagon his pressure is only going to come from the size and energy of the crowd and what this represents in his career. No surprises here. Read the rest of this entry »
May 28th, 2010 admin Location: Raleigh, North Carolina
If you have ever opened a magazine like Cosmopolitan or Glamour, you have seen this effect. The skin is really soft and edges seem to be glowing. Now, the problem with the traditional way of creating this effect is that you loose the edge. Traditionally this effect is accomplished by duplicating the layer and applying a Gaussian Blur to the new layer in Overlay Blending Mode. Now that we have Photoshop CS5 we don’t have to do that. We can actually use HDR tone mapping in a single image to preserve the edges of the image. If you are thinking that HDR is only for a composition of images and not for single images you are right, however, the HDR tone mapping is available to single images in CS5. Take a look at my tutorial on how to accomplish the dream effect with HDR tone mapping and start taking your model images to the next level. Read the rest of this entry »
May 25th, 2010 admin Location: Raleigh, North Carolina
Ready for more masking advice? I thought so, in this episode I uncover some important techniques utilizing CS5 to achieve best results with Masks in Photoshop CS5. Be careful to watch both parts of the video. After learning this technique I assure you you won’t want to create masks any other way.
October 8th, 2009 admin Location: Raleigh, North Carolina
In this video tutorial I show an advanced technique for making accurate masks based on channels. Once you have selected the appropriate channel, and you have modified it, you are able to get a high quality selection.
December 19th, 2008 admin Location: Raleigh, North Carolina
Alex Centeno
So you might be thinking… Why is this guy using a WordPress theme for his site if he is a media designer, right? Well…let me explain. Have you ever seen those fancy pages that say something like: “we are under construction – please visit this website in the near future…” well, instead of posting that, I decided to bring my old WordPress installation into place, upgrade it to the latest edition (which by the way looks great) and finally put up a post about why I did what I did.
Now, I had planned to use a full featured content management system in this site. Something along the lines of Drupal. Nonetheless, I think I might consider WordPress since I already installed it and it is looking pretty good.
I like the new interface and the fancy AJAX they have going all over the place in the Dashboard.
Anyways, if you are here looking for some of my latest projects then make sure to visit my portfolio page (which by the time you read this should be up and running) and let me know if you have any questions.
August 24th, 2006 admin Location: Raleigh, North Carolina
Welcome to AlexCenteno.us. This is my personal website and I will be using it to inform my friends and family about what is going on in my life and the life of my wife: Ann. Please take the time to register and write some comments because they make me smile. Greetings to everyone in Costa Rica!
