| Izzy Learned to be a Photographer - and you can too (579K
PDF) includes: |
- The basics of photographic exposure
- Balancing f-stop and shutter speed
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- When it's OK to disagree with the camera
- Photography is an art and you're the artist
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| Get
the Most out of Your Digital Camera (2
MB
PDF) includes: |
- How
to choose a digital camera
- What's
a megapixel?
- Exposure
options... you decide!
- Deep
or shallow depth of field
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- Shutterspeed
choice
- Picture
taking tips
- Composition
tips
- Easy
professional portrait lighting
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| The Very, Very Basics
of
Photoshop (3.25 MB PDF) includes: |
- For real newbies! (others, too!)
- Basics
of the Layers palette
- Painting
on a layer
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- Some
selection methods
- Basic
exposure modification
- Layer
masking
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| Photoshop Techniques (2.25 MB PDF) includes: |
- How
to straighten your photos
- Cropping
made simple
- Selectively
lightening and darkening areas of you photos
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- Making
areas disappear and reappear!
- Blurring
foreground & background
- Saving
for Web
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| The
Stuff I Left Out -More
Photoshop tips (2.6 MB PDF) includes: |
- Who
your friends are
- Shortcuts
I use a lot
- Keyboard
shortcuts made easy
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- Let
Actions do the boring stuff
- Fixing
perspective distortion
- "Why
won't this work?"
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| Masking
Made Simple and
Select>Color Range! (6.5
MB
PDF) includes: |
- Making
parts of a layer "disappear"
- Masking
an adjustment layer
- Selecting
using Color Range
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- Working
with transparent objects
- Painting
on a mask
- "Dedicating"
an adjustment layer
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| Creating
Cast Shadows for
isolated subjects (5.4 MB PDF) includes: |
- Perspective
shadows
- Making
it more subtle
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- Using
an existing shadow
- Enhancing
the shadow
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Adjustment Layers for a Selection (2.5
MB PDF) includes:
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- Requested by Robin Underhill
for
one
of
her
students.
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- Your selection creates
a mask on your layer!
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| Combining Exposures (5
MB PDF) includes: |
- A way to capture extremes of
lighting in your photo
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- Demonstrated in Camera Raw,
but can be two exposures.
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Written
at the request of Robin Underhill on the Photozo:
ImageReady Rollovers (1.8
MB
PDF) for versions prior to CS3 - includes: |
- Creating rollover links for your web site
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- ImageReady: The "other side" of Photoshop
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From the
November/December 2006 Photozine
A
Cloning Tip (192KB PDF) includes: |
- Making
distracting things disappear
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- Continuing
the lines in the background
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Written
at the request of Landis Major on the Photozo:
Adobe Camera Raw (3MB PDF) includes: |
- Using the other third of the twelve bits your camera is capturing
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- Recovering highlight areas you thought were too overexposed
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From the January/February 2009 Photozine
Creating Animations in Photoshop (1.24 MB PDF) includes: |
- Create animations for your web site
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- Attract your viewer's eye with motion
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| Repetitive Task Escapes (118KB PDF) includes: |
- Let your computer do the boring stuff
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- Assign complex tasks to a single key
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| Portrait Lighting - a VERY short explanation (174KB PDF) includes: |
- Showing texture and the depth
of your subject's features
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| My Eye in the Sky - a higher perspective (772KB PDF) includes: |
- Methods of raising your camera
- Ways of triggering your shutter remotely
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- Using an iPod as a remote viewfinder
- Creating an ad hoc network
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PocketWizard™ asked to use this tutorial for their customers:
Using a Ray Flash with a PocketWizard™ MiniTT1 (379KB PDF) includes: |
- Two terrific lighting accessories which
seem to be physically incompatible
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- A workaround using two other
commercially available accessories.
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A review of three of today's best compact cameras for the Photozo
Three Compact Cameras – Beyond Point & Shoot includes: |
- Hands-on comparison of the
features of each camera
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- Critical, 100% examination of the
image quality of each camera
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Another Photozo article:
Super-Wide Lenses for your DSLR This review includes: |
- Pictures showing how
wide their pictures are
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- 100% enlargements to show
image quality
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Photozo article:
Three ETTL Hot Shoe Flashes Compared This review includes: |
- Side by side comparisons of Canon,
Metz and Sigma flashes
- The advantages of ETTL flash
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- Guide Number explained and tested
- How to improve your flash recyle time
- Wireless flash compatibility tested
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