Monthly Archives February 2012

Edit Digital Photography – Choose Your Own Photo Editing Software

February 24, 2012 Editing Photography  No comments

The ability to take quality photos has become much easier to achieve through the use of digital cameras. Even with these camera’s amazing abilities, we still sometimes face the fact that we are not completely happy with the image before us. However with digital photography software available to us today, we have the ability to change and edit our photos to perfection right at our fingertips.

Some examples are listed of the digital photography software you can use and are available on the market today.

Infran View — This software program can edit graphics at the same time cropping and cutting graphics, produce slideshows and even enhance images. Perfect for group processing. All of these features are available in one simple software program available free.

Image Force – A great free software program with editing and painting tools. These tools have an image editor and will let you transfer images from digital cameras and scanners. It is widely used for editing, printing and sending photos. Provides high quality but takes a bit more practice to master.

Kodak EasyShare Freeware – Simple to use and is highly recommended for the novice. Broad area of uses, mostly for the modifying, sharing, and printing of photos.

PhotoFilter – Another s...

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Study at Home Digital Photography Classes

February 18, 2012 Digital Photography  No comments

For anyone interested in study at home digital photography classes, there are a wealth of options available on the Internet. From professional online photography schools to free online photography lessons, there are truly more study at home digital photography classes available now than ever. Given that digital photographs are so widely distributed on the Internet, it makes sense that so many online resources are available.

This article will guide you through the three most common options for study at home digital photography classes.

Online Digital Photography Schools

For the serious student of digital photography, there are accredited universities that now offer entire photography degree programs online. The Academy of Art University, founded and based in San Francisco, CA, is one such school that offers a completely online photography degree program.

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Black and White Photography – How to Use It Effectively

February 11, 2012 Black And White Photography  No comments

Black and white photography is something that is very popular amongst photographers and their clients. You can use black and white photography in many different ways, you can use it to create a “vintage feel” for your portraits or a very “classic modern feel as well”. There are also different types of coloring tones you can use, sepia, chocolate, blue, etc. Vintage and assorted overlays also look very nice on black and white photography and can completely turn the feel of a photo into something else in a few minutes.

Editing

To edit black and white photography properly a good way to do it is to edit the photo in color first. Then when you turn the photo to black and white (which can be done many different ways) use the “curves or levels” tool in Photoshop and play around with the contrast. You can go a little more harsh on the contrast with black and white photos. Also, I always sharpen the photos up as well. For some reason black and white photos look way better when they are sharper in my opinion.

One other tip I love to do is sharp...

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