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I received this press relesas in my inbox today: Adobe Introduces New Photoshop Elements & Premiere Elements Best-Selling Photo and Video Software Feature New Levels of Integration and Creativity SAN JOSE, Calif. — Sept. 24, 2007 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced two major upgrades to its digital photo and video software for consumers: …
I previously wrote about white balance and how setting your camera white balance control to the proper setting for the scenario you are shooting will give you more accurate colours. But what if that is not what you want? Overriding your white balance let’s you control how your camera records your images. To maintain the …
Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Photoshop Elements are both powerful photo editors. For the hobbyist, Photoshop Elements can be used to handle most, if not all of your photo editing needs. For serious photographers and professionals, the full version of Photoshop offers more tools for complete control over your photos. Both programs, and many other photo …
Study and Practice Today’s tip could be applied to just about anything you wish to excel at. It is something I have mentioned in the past and is well clichéd: Practice makes perfect. If you aren’t out practicing photography, you aren’t out improving your photography. Of course, you could take tens of thousands of photographs …
Use a wide or ultra wide angle lens to add some extra spark to an otherwise dull image. Using the widest lens or setting you have, move in close to your subject. You will notice that the perspective is distorted as the subject gets further away from you. Some subjects that this works very well …
When I was younger, still in high school, I spent a lot of time learning photography, not unlike today. I read all the books I could, I talked to the guys in the local camera shops and most importantly, I shot a lot. However, back then my choices were all film based which was expensive. …
This weeks tip is a very simple one. Watch your elevations. Simply, if your subject sits at a higher elevation than the camera, place the subject in the top half of the frame. If the subject sits below the camera, place it in the lower half of the frame. Following this simple guideline can help …
I have mentioned in previous tips that I do much of my shooting in the early morning. This is for a variety of reasons, better light than midday, less or no people traffic to interfere with my photos and of course life is busy and shooting in the morning doesn’t interfere with other things leaving …
I saw this at Canoe: Summertime – a great time to take lots of pictures. And with the price of memory cards ar an all-time low everyone gets shutter happy, including yours truly. Now, we don’t want to keep all these works of art to ourselves – we want to share them. We could choose …
From Chemical and Engineering News: Office workers now have reason to think twice before printing out that report the boss is waiting for. In a recent office study, researchers in Australia found that nearly one-third of laser printers emitted high levels of nanoparticles into the air, and on average, particle counts during working hours were …