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How to Create Professional Watermarks for your Photos
By creating a custom brush and using clipping groups, you can create dazzling looking watermarks. This tutorial covers how to create a custom brush, make a clipping group and watermark your images for the Internet. To get the © copyright symbol, hold down the left alt key on your keyboard and type 0169 using the 10-key pad.
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Magazines that Take Pictures from Amateurs
by laurie
Photography: Daniel Y. Go
Landing an assignment to shoot the cover of Vogue or fill the pages of the New York Times Magazine isn’t likely to happen to everyone. You’ll need a resume filled with publications, years of professional experience, and a contact list that contains the names of some top editors. But the giant publications aren’t the only magazines that take pictures. There [...]
Filed in: Photography Tips, Photography: The Basics
4 Easy Photoshop Techniques to Make Your Pictures Pop!
by Darren Rowse
#1: blur/overlay
Duplicate your picture layer by dragging the layer to the ‘new’ icon in the layers palette (ctrl+j).
Apply a gaussian blur (Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur…). Blur it enough that the detail disappears but the shapes mostly keep their form.
In the layers palette, change the blending mode from ‘Normal’ to ‘Overlay.’
If you look at the before and after, [...]
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Learn Digital Photography – The Best Time to Shoot a Photograph
by Wayne Turner
Have you ever been in the position where your shutter finger is just itching to take some photos? You look outside and the weather is overcast and the sun is nowhere to be found. Take heart you don’t always need the sun. Here’s why.
I was always lead to believe that if there was no sun, then there wasn’t an opportunity for good photography. So during the winter months and overcast [...]
Creative Ideas for Photography Books
by: Dean
Photography: chotda
The photography books that line the shelves in bookstores and fill your Amazon wish list might all contain wonderful images and beautiful pictures but they also tend to follow a format. The photos focus on a theme, are accompanied by short passages of text, and each photo both stands alone and contributes to an overall impression of the book’s subject. When you’re [...]
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Beginning in Photography – Understanding the Light
by Mark Eden
Understanding how different lighting affects an image is half the work of creating better photos. This article aims to give a brief overview of the different types of light you might encounter as a photographer and how to use them to your advantage.
Direct light
Looking through the family photo album the other day, I noticed a recurring theme; photo after photo of us squinting into the [...]
Photography in Extreme Cold
by Sherry Osborne
Sometimes some of the most striking pictures are those taken in the dead of winter. There’s something beautiful and serene about a blanket of snow lying over everything. I live in a part of Canada that is known for extreme amounts of snow and temperatures that are accompanied by the terms “Arctic cold snap” on a regular basis so I get to practice taking photos under these conditions [...]
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Surviving Weddings – Amateur Wedding Photography Tips
by Peter Phun
In the eleventh hour, your best friend who’s getting married is in tears.
The professional she hired to photograph her wedding bailed. You happen to have a digital SLR and all of a sudden you’re it. Here’s my survival guide for you.
In the eleventh hour, your best friend who’s getting married is in tears.
The professional she hired to photograph her wedding bailed. You happen [...]
10 Reasons to Turn off Your Autofocus
by Alistair Scott.
When I started using a camera autofocus was something out of science fiction. I mean … it would never work in real life, would it? Apart from anything else, how could it know what you wanted to focus on?
Now fiction has become fact, and pretty well every camera has AF as standard. It works, and works well. But it doesn’t always work perfectly. It can pick up the wrong thing [...]
Growing a Baby Photography Business
by Dean
Photography: Carrie Sandoval
Becoming a successful photographer means learning how to handle a camera, understanding how to work with light, and figuring out how to edit and produce an image. You also have to learn business skills, marketing and promotions. And you have to know how to work with people. That can be the biggest challenge of all. While professional models are paid to deliver [...]
Get Silly for Serious Lifestyle Images
by Matthew Dutile
If you’re interested in diving into the world of lifestyle and portrait photography, or a veteran stuck in a rut of bland photos, and want to bring out some great emotions from your subjects – it’s time to get silly for serious images.
Chances are, unless you’re a natural born comedian or were from a large family where you had to ensure your meals by gaining mom and dad’s [...]
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Quick Tips to Learn How to Use a Digital SLR Camera
Posted by BenGsKe on December 17, 2009 · 5 Comments
by Peter Phun
If you’re the typical digital photographer, you have to wonder if there is a faster way to learn how to use your camera. The owner’s manual is written by a technical writer often not a practicing photographer.
Follow these step-by-step, using your manual as a guide and you should be taking pictures in no time.
Take some pictures on automatic, program, aperture or shutter priority
Download [...]
F-Stops and Shutter Speeds – Camera Lessons
by Gene Rodman
How is an exposure made and what does the camera do to make sure an image is recorded? There are two parts involved in exposing film or a digital sensor to light. One is the intensity of the light and the other is the length of time the light is allowed to strike the film or sensor. Exposure= intensity x time. Above the door in my photography class was this sign: E=IxT. Some students [...]
Sin City Effect
In this tutorial I am going to teach you how to create effects like in the movie “Sin City” using. For this tutorial I have selected a picture of German actress, Yvonne Catterfield. You can use any photo with any colour of dress. Now lets carry on with this tutorial.
Step 1:
Open a file document and set the layer in RGB mode. Double Click the background layer. Rename [...]
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Reduce Camera Noise in 3 Easy
by Guest Contributor
Shooting with a higher ISO can sometimes solve low light shooting situations but it can also present a whole other set of problems. Higher ISO’s allow you to shoot in low light situations but the combination of low light and high ISO creates a perfect storm when it comes to camera noise and texture.
Camera noise is most obvious in the darker midtone and shadow areas of your [...]
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DIY Reflector for Natural Light Photograph
by Natalie Norton
I la la lava me a nice white photo reflector. Catch me out on shoot or at a wedding and chances are, 9 times out of an even 10, I’ll have my trusty ol’ reflector in tow. However it’s important to note that it’s also highly probable that I’ll have an assistant at my heels making certain I’m able to make good use of said reflector. What if an assistant isn’t a luxury [...]
Create a Powerful Mental Wave Explosion Effect
Apr 15th in Effects by Fabio
Step 1
Open a new document. I used 800x600px. Look for a road photo on the Internet. The one I used can be downloaded here. After downloading, place the photo in your document.
Step 2
Now we need a photo of a person. The one I used can be found here. Once you have your photo, it’s time to extract the guy from the background. Using the Pen Tool(P) create a path like [...]
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Vignittes – Lighten or Darken?
by:Elizabeth Halford
When adding vignettes to your images or correcting accidental ones, you have two options: lighten or darken. Darkening the edges of your photos can add a deep, dark, vintage or even macabre quality and feel to your image and you might not even entertain the option of doing the opposite and lightening the edges.
As with any art, you must let your heart guide you, but I always find [...]
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15 Digital Photography Tips for Christmas
by: Darren Rowse
It’s just a few days until Christmas so I thought a quick tutorial on the topic of Christmas Photography might be appropriate. Hopefully this will give you some good Christmas photo ideas.
Here are 16 Christmas Photography tips and ideas to try that come to mind for digital camera owners wanting to capture the big day:
1. Prepare – Making a List, checking it twice….
Making sure [...]
Better Sunset Photography
by: Patrick Ryall
Basked in golden light as the sun shimmers over the water; the sunset can truly be a magnificent sight. When you are traveling or even exploring your local area, try to be a little more creative with your sunset photography, too often we see the standard sunset shot with little to remind you of where it was taken.
Although it can be tempting to have a clear sunset shot, you are really [...]
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Ethereal Ghost
Posted by Kirin Knapp in Miscellaneous
We’ll be altering a photo of a beautiful woman walking in a wind, into an ethereal ghost haunting the grounds.
This is a very easy tutorial, that once you learn how to do it, it will only take you a few minutes to make anyone into a ghost.
Starting with our lady:
Desaturate the whole picture CTRL+SHIFT+U.
Duplicate the woman/background image in the layers [...]
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How to Shoot in Direct Sunlight
image by 油姬
Shooting in direct sunlight can lead to images that have high contrast, blown out highlights, lens flare and colors that might even look overly saturated. If you’re shooting portraits they can also lead to the ’squint factor’.
So what’s a photographer to do?
Here are eleven quick and simple tips at combating the problems that bright sunlight might bring when shooting outdoors:
1. [...]
White Seamless – Studio How-To
In a recent post, I referred to studio photography with a white background and bright lights as being ‘high-key’and got quite a bit of flack about it.
While calling this style ‘high-key’ may be a deviation from the original definition, it’s a heck of a lot easier than always calling it ‘photography with a white background and bright lights’. Recently, I read a blog from a photographer [...]
How to Create Your Own Textures
Here at DPS, we’ve already covered how to use textures in your photos to give them a completely different look and feel, but now it’s time to get inspired and create your own textures – all around your house.
Finding Textures
I typically shoot landscape photography. And when I’m shooting a landscape, I’m looking at the big picture – where the horizon is, where the sun is at, the reflection [...]
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