In its efforts to compete with Bing, it looks like Google has rolled out larger pictures for female celebrities. After a couple of searches over the past week I though I saw a trend, but to confirm it I Googled the names of the winner of the best actor/best actress from the last five years and sure enough found Google was doing this.

For easy reference I have included the links below:

Female Actors
Reese Witherspoon
Helen Mirren
Marion Cotillard
Kate Winslet

Male Actors
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Forest Whitaker
Daniel Day-Lewis
Sean Penn

If you’re like me most of your photos are taken in portrait orientation. Unfortunately most monitor are designed for landscape presentation, so you’re photos are never displayed in all their glory. Windows 7 now offers a feature where you can orient your monitor to display on the portrait. This is great for those with laptops, tablets, and even swivel LCDs. To change this setting in Windows 7 go to your desktop, right click somewhere on the background, and then select the option for screen resolution. A screen opens up, and next to the label that says orientation select either portrait or portrait flip.

Congratulations, you should now have oriented or flipped your screen from landscape to portrait mode. If you have any tips on better displaying your photos feel free to leave a comment.

Have you ever had hot spots (over exposed areas) on the skin that needed to be edited out in Photoshop? I’ve had this problem with hot spots many times before, and this is how I remove them. 

1. Go to the clone stamp.
2. Set the blend mode to darken, set the brush opacity to around 40 percent.
3. Find a good area of skin, and then clone this onto the hot spots. 

The result is pretty convincing and easy way to correct this type of lighting error in post production using Photoshop.