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TrustedReviews - Digital Photography Tutorial – Photo Printing

With the popularity of digital cameras, more and more people are taking more and more photographs. In fact despite scare-mongering stories about “the end of history” and “the death of photography”, the truth is that there are more photos being taken today than ever before. However most of those photos will never be seen by anyone except the person who took them, because hardly anyone prints their photos any more. This is very odd, because many people have home computers with photo-quality printers that are more than capable of producing first-class prints from almost any digital photograph. Printers are ludicrously cheap, to the point that when your printer runs out of ink it’s almost cheaper to throw it away and buy a new one than it is to buy more ink.
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The Orton Effect is named after Michael Orton who first used the technique is a sandwich of two images, one in focus the other out of focus. Freeman Patterson and Andre Gallant have both used the technique successfully in their work as well.

This tutorial show you how to recreate this in Photoshop etc.

The Orton Effect - Digital Photography Tip of the Week at PCIN.net Update

Alastair Montgomery Photography
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You can create your own photo album to host your picture collection on the web in just a few simple steps. The Digital Photography School has a short (six minute) video tutorial that demonstrates how to create your own web-based photo album using Photoshop. The process is all graphical and automated, so you don’t have to be a techie to get this done.
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Alastair Montgomery
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So I’ve been meaning to do this project for quite a while. You can spend tons of money on a professional rotation tray to create 360 photography, or you can build one yourself essentially free.

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The GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) is a free piece of software available for Windows, Mac and Linux Operating systems for tasks such as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. If you don’t want to pay for Photoshop, it is a viable alternative. To help you get to grips with it, we have dugg out the best Tutorials for you…

http://tutorialblog.org/gimp-tutorials/

Tutorial on how to make seamless panoramas using free software.

http://tinyurl.com/yqqmer

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What do you do when a drop shadow isn’t realistic enough? Create a cast shadow. When you see an object in a spotlight or a setting sun, you will notice the long shadows that are created behind them, this technique will teach you how to add realism to your images.
Create a case shadow in Photoshop

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Useful tip if you want to start the whole macro/ table top photography area on the cheap.
http://tinyurl.com/zskbc

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A collection of Photoshop, Corel, Xara, Painter and PSP Tutorials.

http://tinyurl.com/yzgnyl

Cool way to make a photo holder out of a used tea light.

http://tinyurl.com/ynflkx

Hints and tips on taking better shots at night.

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Web site MediaFire is a free file hosting service that allows
unlimited file sizes and uploads, as well as unlimited downloads of
files.

The service is really well made, especially the upload progress
page, which gives you a nice view of your upload progress, speed, and
estimated time to complete the upload. Add to that the unlimited
everything for free, and you’ve got what looks like a pretty saucy file
sharing service. In the wake of YouSendIt migrating to more of a pay
service, a lot of readers have been looking for a new host; while there
are a lot of options available (see the comments), MediaFire is the only one I’ve seen with the unlimited upload size. -Adam Pash

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Cool idea but don’t forget what was in the tin!

Tutorial on turning cans and bottles into really simple and neat-looking photo frames.


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Learn the hard to die language, it is VERY powerful and VERY useful, it puts the phrase “don’t work harder, work smarter” at it’s zenith.

http://docs.rinet.ru/P7/