- FuelBooks Holiday Tip: Get the Most from Your Food Photos, Even When on the Road
- Dec 14, 2013
- Heading over the river and through the woods? Well, you've got to stop and eat at some point. If you want to capture your culinary journey on camera, Nicole S. Young, author of FuelBook Tips from a Pro: Travel Photography, has some tips for you.
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- FuelBooks Holiday Tip: Get the Best Picture of Your Pet for Your Holiday Card
- Dec 13, 2013
- Alan Hess, author of FuelBook Pet Portraits That Stand Out: Creating a Classic Photograph of Your Cat or Dog, offers tips for getting the best picture of your pet.
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- FuelBooks Holiday Tip: Time to Treat Yourself? The Pro’s Secret for Choosing Your Next Camera Lens
- Dec 12, 2013
- Rob Sheppard, author of FuelBook Choosing the Right Lens for Nature and Landscape Photography, offers some advice for how to choose your next lens.
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- FuelBooks Holiday Tip: Compose a Photograph with Multiple People for Your Holiday Card
- Dec 10, 2013
- In this excerpt from his FuelBook, Composition for Portraiture: Creating Compelling Headshots, Group Shots, and Senior Pictures, Dan Ablan shows you that the way you can be more creative with group composition is to photograph them in small groups.
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- FuelBooks Holiday Tip: Less Is More for Your Holiday Card
- Dec 9, 2013
- Khara Plicanic shares a tip on how to get the most out of your holiday card in this excerpt from her FuelBook, Design Your Own Holiday Cards: Three DIY Projects with Photoshop & Photoshop Elements.
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- Perfect Photo Suite 8: Perfect Effects
- Dec 5, 2013
- Dan Moughamian invites you to join him for the second of two articles covering the best new features in Perfect Photo Suite 8 from onOne Software. This installment focuses on the newly revamped Perfect Effects module, which includes many new filters and presets, new masking tech, creative blurring options from the old Focal Point plugin, and a new user interface.
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- Questions for Photographer Frank Doorhof, author of "Mastering the Model Shoot"
- Dec 3, 2013
- International fashion and glamor photographer Frank Doorhof shares stories about sneaking onto rooftops, the weirdest prop he's ever used, and the most common mistake photographers make when lighting a model.
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- Mastering the Model Shoot: Clothing & Styling (The Most Important Things)
- Dec 2, 2013
- In our quest to recreate a certain look, we often forget the most important parts of the image: location, styling, and makeup. Without these vital elements, an image is nothing more than, well, an image.
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- Invigorating Your Photography Portfolio: A Q&A with Lindsay Adler
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- Nov 11, 2013
- Lindsay Adler talks about her new book, Creative 52: Weekly Projects to Invigorate Your Photography Portfolio, which provides 52 weekly challenges that push photographers to experiment with new concepts, techniques, and post-processing tools, culminating in a unique and eye-catching portfolio.
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- Creative Photography Project #4: Use Negative Space
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- Oct 28, 2013
- In this project designed to invigorate your photography portfolio, Lindsay Adler encourages you to play with negative space in your photographs, creating an image in which the negative space is an essential element.
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- Scott Kelby on Shooting Landscapes Like a Pro
- Sep 30, 2013
- Scott Kelby offers tips on shooting landscapes with tricky lighting conditions such as sunsets, water, lightning, and rainbows, and also shares the seven deadly sins of landscape photography.
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- Canon EOS Rebel T5i / 700D: The Creative Zone
- Sep 17, 2013
- The Creative Zone is the name given by Canon to the shooting modes that offer you the greatest amount of control over your photography. Jeff Revell explains how to work with the various modes in the Creative zone, including Program Mode, Shutter Priority Mode, Aperture Priority Mode, and Manual Mode.
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- Peter Read Miller on Shooting Football for Sports Illustrated
- Sep 13, 2013
- Photographer Peter Read Miller discusses some of the aspects of shooting football (and sports in general) that are specific to Sports Illustrated: how SI has adapted to changes in technology, what makes a picture work (or not work) for the magazine, and how SI covers the big games.
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- 10 Tips for Painless Photo Albums: A Guide for Professional Photographers
- Sep 3, 2013
- For a lot of photographers, album design is synonymous with headache. The hours (and hours!) spent designing are usually followed by weeks (or even months) of revisions, making for a painful experience for everyone involved. But it doesn’t have to be that way! Khara Plicanic, author of Album Moxie: The Savvy Photographer's Guide to Album Design and More with InDesign, offers ten tips to make the album creation process a joy.
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- Creating and Organizing Digital Photographs with Adobe Creative Cloud
- Sep 2, 2013
- The exercises in this chapter from Foundations of Digital Art and Design with the Adobe Creative Cloud will explain the camera mechanics involved in creating a photograph and demonstrate how to organize, rename, and set up a digital “contact sheet” via a PDF of your images. You’ll explore your camera and use your files or those from the companion website to learn some of the best file management tools available in Adobe Bridge.
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- Photography Q&A with Zack Arias: Real Questions. Real Answers.
- Aug 26, 2013
- In this excerpt from Photography Q&A: Real Questions. Real Answers., Zack Arias answers questions on cheap eBay lights, gear lust, low light, and more.
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- The Savvy Photographer's Guide to Album Design: Simply Square
- Aug 22, 2013
- Photographer Khara Plicanic shows you how to use Photoshop and InDesign to create a super-quick and easy square album that features a single image per page.
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- Scott Kelby's Editing Essentials: How to Develop Your Photos
- Aug 6, 2013
- Scott Kelby shows you how to develop your photos, including tips on setting white balance, setting your overall exposure, working with the Histogram and Auto Tone, dealing with exposure problems, making your colors more vibrant, and much more. He ends the chapter with some Lightroom killer tips.
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- Developing Raw Files with Lightroom 5 Smart Previews
- Jun 14, 2013
- Adobe Lightroom expert Dan Moughamian describes the new Smart Preview concept available in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5. Smart Previews provide photographers with the means to “develop” their imported raw pictures, even when the computer they’re using is not directly connected to those pictures. You’ll see how easy it is to create these previews, and then integrate them into your workflow.
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- Enhanced Spot Removal in Lightroom 5
- Jun 13, 2013
- Adobe Lightroom expert Dan Moughamian shows how the enhanced Spot Removal Brush in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 can clone or heal regions of pixels using the traditional “spot mode,” as well as the new freehand brush strokes. This enables a more natural, Photoshop-like workflow when retouching odd-shaped spots, linear groupings of pixels, and other challenges.
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