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Make Your Amateur Photos More Professional | Photography With everyone and their grandmother having a digital camera you can make almost anybody look like a professional photographer, well, better-than-amateur at least. You can use this simple process on almost any photo you take. Let’s start with our regular, old, point-and-shoot photo. This one was taken with a little higher-end camera, but it can still use a lot of work. First, we’re going to sharpen our image a bit using the Unsharp Mask [Filter > Sharpen > Unsharp Mask]. We don’t want anything too drastic, so I used some low settings. Now we’re going to add a Levels Adjustment layer [Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Levels]. Next step is to add a Brightness/Contrast Adjustment layer [Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Brightness/Contrast]. One more adjustment layer… the Hue/Saturation Adjustment layer [Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Hue/Saturation]. Now you can probably already see how much of a difference these few steps make. It’s a subtle change, but it usually makes the photo look nicer.

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How to do HDR Photography HDR how? This is a simple how-to HDR tutorial to help you create amazing HDR photographs that make viewers say, “Wow!” When I saw my first HDR photo, I just had to find out how to take HDR photos, and how to process them. What I now know is that everyone can take an impressive looking HDR photo. Follow these easy steps and you can be creating HDR masterpieces today. "Standing Room Only" captured by Debra Vanderlaan (Click Image to See More From Debra Vanderlaan) What is HDR photography? HDR stands for High Dynamic Range. HDR tutorial – Step one – take three photos Start by taking three photos at different lighting levels. To be clear, the first photo should be taken at minus two EV, the second photo should be zero EV, and the third photo should be plus two EV. "When the sun goes down in Chicago" captured by Ronald Quillopas (Click Image to See More From Ronald Quillopas) To summarize: Of course, you don’t want your camera to move in between shots so a tripod should be used.

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How to Know What F-Stop to Use" Photography deals with capturing light in a way that appeals to your artistic sensibilities, whether you prefer perfectly-lit, tack-sharp portraits worthy of presidential candidates or blurrier, artistic renderings of NASCAR competitors roaring by at 180 mph (290 kph). To consistently create the kinds of pictures that will make your creative spirit soar, you need a firm grasp of common camera settings such as shutter speed, ISO setting and f-stop (or focal stop). F-stops in particular have a tremendous effect on image characteristics, some of which may not be obvious to amateur shooters. For the bulk of this article, we'll discuss and improve your grasp of the mysterious f-stop. Shutter speed and ISO settings are also important concepts that will help you flesh out your understanding of how cameras work. For more information on these subjects, check out our articles "What is ISO speed?" For starters, your camera has a mechanical aperture that controls how much light enters the camera.

Cheat Sheet: Every Major Icon In Photoshop's Toolbar Explained If you're a casual Photoshop user, you probably know how to find the cropping tool and have a vague idea of what the lasso function does. But what about all those other mysterious looking icons? As it turns out, they all have something meaningful to contribute to the editing process and can vastly improve the appearance of your photos. This handy pictorial explains what every major tool on the taskbar does — from the clone stamp to the colour selection tool. Photo: vectorfree.com We get it. Move Tool (Keyboard: V) The move tool does exactly what it says in the tin: it lets you move objects in a given layer around the Photoshop canvas. Marquee (Keyboard: M) The marquee lets you select part of the canvas in a specific shape. Lasso (Keyboard: L) The lasso is a free-form selection tool that lets you drag around the canvas and select anything the lasso'd area covers. Magic Wand (Keyboard: W) Crop Tool (Keyboard: C) The crop tool is exactly what you think it is. Eyedropper (Keyboard: I) 3D Tools

10 Food Photography Tips to Make It Look Tasty We’ve all done it before. Taken a photo of a delicious meal only to have it turn out looking ugly and not edible. Hopefully these 10 food photography tips will help you take a more tasty-looking food photo next time. 1.) Make sure there is a color contrast between the background and the food, don’t have the two be the same color or a similar shade. 2.) Adjust the white balance on your camera according to what you’re shooting. 3.) Whenever you can, try to shoot using natural lighting. 4.) Most food photography will be done indoors, where there might not be enough lighting. 5.) Don’t disregard the small stuff. 6.) Instead of only taking photos of a full plate of food, take some macro shots too. 7.) As with anything, you shouldn’t just take something for its face value. 8.) Don’t just take a photo from a bird’s eye view, try different angles. 9.) Don’t be afraid to jazz up the set. 10.) Do you have any more ideas, tips and tricks to share when it comes to food photography? Article by Yi

How To Learn Photoshop In 24 Hrs Quite a bold statement, Learn Photoshop in 24 hours. Its simple and you can. Stepping into Photoshop at first can be quite daunting, were do you start? With these 20 tutorials we have given you some direction, you will start of with some very basic techniques and build towards the more advanced. By the end of it you will be an expert. Tutorial 1:Combining Two Photos for New Effect – Basic Tutorial running time : 10 minutes. We’ll start with something basic. Tutorial 2:Grass Texture – Basic Tutorial running time : 15 minutes. In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a nice-looking grass texture. Tutorial 3:Underwater Effect – Basic In this tutorial, you will learn how to create an underwater scene from scratch, using Gradients, Transform and Filters. Tutorial 4:2d Mirror Effect – Basic In this tutorial you will learn how to Duplicate, Flip Horizontally/Vertically, Feathering and Blending. Tutorial 5:Sony Ericsson Logo – Basic Tutorial running time : 20 minutes.

30 Best Pictures of the Week Showing Human Emotion – Jan 29th to Feb 4th, 2013 1.Proud Grandmother, Shanghai market 2.Street Parade Faces Zurich/Switzerland 3.Boy with the Best Chicken. 4.A soldier from 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment (The Vikings) stands to attention as his regiment receives their Afghanistan Operational Service Medal at Picton Barracks in Bulford, England, on November 1, 2012 5.Japanese Buddhist monk by the Katsura River in Arashiyama, Kyoto, Japan 6.A Girl Can Dream 7.Chinese Olympic Gold Medalist Lu Xiaojun 8.Ethnicity 9.Romanian woman 10.Young street kids in search of recyclables – India 11.Bhutanese Fellow 12.They call him… ‘Stormchaser’ 13.An Indian man, dressed as Hindu God Lord Shiva, participates in a procession during the annual cattle fair in Pushkar, on November 24, 2012 14.Farmer smoking a cigarette in Punjab, Pakistan 15.On Break 16.Elderly gentleman enjoying his bike ride – Shanghai 17.Researcher Werner Freund, 79, a former German paratrooper, and owner of a wolf sanctuary near Merzig, Germany; (January 24, 2013, Reuters/Lisi Niesner)