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    Taptile – Ditch the switch One-Touch mood lighting and
    dimming solutions for the bathroom and kitchen

    WELCOME TO TAPTILE

    Taptile is a simple, clean and safe lighting solution, uniquely providing touch sensitive lighting control systems for your entire home including wet areas such as your bathroom, kitchen or even outdoors.

    These favorite spaces have evolved rapidly in recent years and have been subject to technological advancements in keeping with the rest of our homes. Subsequently the need to simply and stylishly control lighting and other electrical appliances in these wet environments has become an ever increasing problem.

    Waterproofing traditional switch technology is expensive and often results in controls which are far from aspirational, discordant with the environment they are designed to work in. Water and or steam tend to find its way into moving parts and often cause damage resulting in dangerous, unreliable and unsightly products.

    Only now with the invention of Taptile technology can we affordably control our lighting, to create mood scenes whether outdoors in the cold rain or in the warm glow of a hot shower, by way of a simple touch of a virtual switch with out fear of electrocution.

    TAPTILE BENEFITS

    Taptile is simple and safe to use both in wet and dry environments.

    Using Wi-Fi technology Taptile is easy to install, either to existing or new lighting schemes.

    Multiple sensors can be subtly placed around the room offering absolute flexibility of lighting control as never seen before.

    Taptile can control multiple mood scenes as well as electrical appliances such as extractor fans or AV equipment.

    The face of Taptile is fully customisable to ensure it fits in with the aspirations you have for your home.

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  • pseudo-HDR effect with local contrast – Pluginin.org great Photoshop headsup!!

    PSU-Create a pseudo-HDR effect with local contrast

    June 25, 2012Leave a comment

     

     

    Source: Ben Secret www.computerarts.co.uk
     
     
     
     
    Video tutorial: Create a pseudo-HDR effect with local contrast

     

    Want to add HDR-like detail enhancing effects to your images? Ben Secret shows you how

    • SoftwarePhotoshop CS3 or later
    • Time needed5 minutes
    • Skills
      • Create a multi-stage processing chain
      • Balance tones across an image
      • Add local contrast and detail to images
     

    This tutorial covers a simple and versatile Photoshop process for creating a local contrast effect much like tone mapping. It involves using a low-frequency (blurred) duplicate of your source image to throw controlled light into darker imager regions, and to darken bright image regions.

    The overall effect helps balance the tones used across your image, and should help ensure details in the highlight and shadow regions are more clearly rendered. For some interesting variations, you can use this technique with different blurring modes, or try running multiple instances of the effect to enhance different detail regions.

     

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    01 First, load your source image into Photoshop and duplicate it (Cmd/ Ctrl+J). With the top layer selected, set its blending mode to Overlay. Now create an Invert adjustment layer, and clip it onto your top layer by Opt/Alt-clicking in between the two layers (in the Layers panel), or by selecting Create Clipping Mask from the Layers menu with the Invert layer selected.

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    02 Now select your middle layer again, and choose Convert for Smart Filters from the Filters menu. Next, select Gaussian Blur from the Filters menu, and notice how changing the radius of the effect affects the tonality of the image. Once you’ve found a radius that enhances the details and balances the tones in a useful way, select OK.

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    03 Now select the source image again, and duplicate it. Bring this duplicate layer to the top of your Layers panel, and change its blending mode to Linear Light. Now bring the layer’s opacity down to around 5%. This is an optional step that enables you to reintroduce some of the overall contrast and tonality from your source image, and it can be mixed in to suit.

     

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    04 As is common with tone-mapping effects, the colours may be a bit messed up at this point. A simple fix is to go back to your source image, duplicate it, bring the duplicate to the top of your Layers panel and set its blending mode to Colour. This should now straighten out your colours, so the tone-mapping effect is only affecting luminosity.

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    05 You can create a group layer now, and put all of your layers, apart from the source image, into it. Using the group’s Opacity control, you can now mix this effect in and out. Experiment and change the size of the radius for anything from a hyper-real effect at lower values, to a broad tone-balancing effect with larger values.