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100+ Useful Textures for Your Next Photo Manipulation Project

by Bill Jones

If your like me, you love to layer up texture to create some interesting effects with your photos. Here is a collection of high quality textures for you to play with in your next photo manipulation project.

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How to Capture Bold Colors in Your Photography

by Bill Jones

Photography is a great way to “learn by doing”, and in the digital age it is no longer a costly thing to experiment with photographs. Memory cards are relatively inexpensive and taking one hundred photographs costs nothing except the time the photographer dedicated to making them.

Tutorials

Combining Images to Create an Antique Look in Photoshop

by Christopher O’Donnell

Whether for business or pleasure, creating antiqued images in Photoshop is always a creative way to edit your photo. In this tutorial, we are going to add a few simple textures that will have people convinced you found a photo album in your great-grandmother’s attic.

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40 Breathtaking Examples of Serene Sunrise Photography

by Bill Jones

The first few moments we find right as the sun breaks for a new day is a very special time. The quality of light is usually amazing and makes fantastic images. Below is a collection of beautiful photographs captured in the light of the breaking dawn.

Tips

Quick Tips to Help You Take Sharper Photographs

by Bill Jones

There are many reasons that photographs end up a bit less sharp than desired. Sometimes it is an accident such as the subject moving slightly and blurring the scene, but at other times it is something to do with camera settings and the subject.

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Tips For Macro Photography – The Extreme Close-Up

by Christopher B. Derrick

Marco photography has always fascinated me because practitioners of the art/craft continually amaze me with the small details of our gigantic world. Much like a Seinfeld bit, Macro photography typically consists of finding an everyday object and photographing it at such close proximity that the perhaps mundane — now taken out of context — is startling and interest-piquing. Marco photography can be extra enjoyable and elucidating, as you’ll be pleasantly surprised by the myriad of minute details your camera records. Icicles hanging on a tree branch or side of house can become surreal when viewed through macro photography.

Tutorials

Website-Ready Your Images with Photoshop Actions

by Christopher O’Donnell

Photoshop actions have become a fundamental part of the workflow to many photographers. However, they are not just limited to the automation of editing techniques. If you have an online portfolio to display your photography masterpieces, then you must have developed a certain system to preparing and saving your photos for upload. In this tutorial, I will show you how to easily use Photoshop actions to automate that system and avoid those repetitive steps every time you wish to save an image for your website.

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Useful Tips for Shooting in Low Light Situations

by Christopher B. Derrick

Since photography means to “write with light”, it is at one of its most challenging moments when you are shooting in low-light conditions (this could also mean the practical absence of light). Many a photographer has made his or her name from taking provocative and arresting images at night (Brassi immediately comes to mind). And as a practitioner of the art & craft you’ll want to experiment with night and low-light photography. Much like shooting in snowy conditions, you have pay extra special attention to your exposure when shooting at night. Those pockets of darkness will be much more evocative if there is a hint of shadow detail hiding in there, as opposed to uniform chunks of black.

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Quick Tips for Photographing Wildlife

by Bill Jones

If you are like many photographers you will eventually find yourself trying to capture great images of wildlife with your camera. Because you might want to take pictures of hummingbirds, bison, or whales there are no “standard” settings or rules that apply. There are, however, some good tips followed by leading photographers who are known for their wildlife work.

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