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I have discussed in the past some common problems people often experience with photography and how they can be corrected. Crooked photos, too much background in your images, red eye. When polling some co-workers about a topic they would like to know more about, these were all issues that came up. I have already covered …
As I’m sure you’ve experienced, spam (junk email) is a huge problem. If you have an email address than you’ve probably received junk. Most ISPs now try to run services on their mail server to stop this, but some always get through. If you get spam and want to report it yourself, a good place …
I saw this on Download Squad… Media-Convert is a fairly impressive web service that will convert a file from one file format to another. That sounds pretty benign, but what’s impressive is how many formats it supports. There’s a good chance Media-Convert supports almost every document on you computer, including dozens of audio and video …
This week we had a guest speaker at my camera club speaking about photographing people. The first thing he said in his presentation was to have your camera ready at all times so that you don’t miss a shot. That was my tip last week. This week I am going to talk a little about …
Another good one from Download Squad: If you’re like me… then you probably are a total sucker for any Netscape or digg post that claims to give you information about some super-secret registry tweak that will make your XP box faster. I know I’ve tried every one in the book, and I found the more …
I have been writing these tips for over a year now, and sometime they come to me very easy, others I have a hard time finding a topic. If there is something about digital photography you would like to know about, please leave a comment and I can work at writing on that topic. This …
There are lots of tools out there to help you recover files that you’ve deleted off of removable media (such as memory cards). Some are free and some are not. Today I accidentally came across something that may be helpful. I have a SanDisk card reader connected to my computer. It has 4 different card …
Adobe has released the next beta of the their new Lightroom product. It can be downloaded from the Adobe Labs site: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom/
I first read about this at DownloadSquad… RSS feeds (commonly called blog feeds) are a great way to get quick and current information. However, it normally requires another piece of software or another web site that you need to visit. SimpleHeadlines is a service that tries to simplify this, and send you an email with …
I talked last week about using focus lock to ensure your subject was in focus while still maintaining control over your composition. This week I will discuss using negative space in your photographs. Negative space is the space around your subjects in your photographs. The space of nothingness in your photographs is just as important …