Article Search:

Articles in Home | Arts & Entertainment | Photography

Title|Newest|Oldest
  • Care for a Photo Scanner  By : Christine Peppler
    Photo scanners are a great way of converting images into digital form. We give you some basic tips regarding proper use and care of your scanner to assure longevity and the ability to produce high quality images.
  • Photoshop Contests And Forums  By : Josh Bond
    Photoshop has become synonymous with digital photo manipulation, from James Bond movies to CSI, whenever there is any digital manipulation involved, more often than not there is a mention of Photoshop. Photoshop is a propriety software of Adobe Systems, Inc., nearly every graphic designer on the planet is either using Photoshop or has worked on Photoshop during some part of his career. What sets Photoshop apart from other graphical programs is the amazing fan following and the considerable amount of plug-ins and support that are offered for the software. Nearly 1000+ extra plug-ins and filters are available for Photoshop, some are created by Adobe, others written by graphic designers and programmers.



    Photoshop is immensely popular with graphic designers around the world for a couple of reasons, below are listed some of the reasons for its popularity
  • Choosing Print Paper for Your Photos  By : Christine Peppler
    If you are just beginning to print photos from your digital camera at home, it can be a bit confusing as to what type of paper to use. Here are the basics.
  • Digital Cameras: Getting Better Photos of Family and Friends  By : Christine Peppler
    Digital camera owners are able to capture images of family and friends which reflect greater depth and meaning than those obtained in a studio. This article provides a handful of tips on how to shoot images which better represent the personality, feelings, and thoughts of the people in our lives.
  • Figuring out photoshop just got easier  By : David Peters
    Click on the Brustic to open the Brush Preset picker, and scroll down to see the default set of brushes. Towards the foot of the list of default brushes you'll find a variety of unusually-shaped brush tips, including brushes shaped like stars and blobs. Click on the picker's menu icon to access other, specialised sets of brushes. You can use the picker's menu to display a thumbnail of the brush stroke, or set it to show the brush tip and name. The numerical value indicates the brush's initial diameter in pixels. You can customise this to suit your requirements. When you select a new set of brushes, you can either replace the existing default set or append the new set to it so you can use both.
  • Awesome Tips that will help you with Digital Photography  By : Dan Feildman
    Lens are very important, the whole world has started going digital, some important lens that are quite include the Macro lens, The Perspective-Control Lens, and the Mirror Lens. Macro is one of the most advantageous lenses that specialist will employ. You can purchase these lenses starting at 50mm up to 180mm. The higher the lens range the better the picture you will achieve. Most specialists will choose the 180mm or the 105mm, since it works like a telephoto zoom lens, yet it delivers top-dog photos at long ranges. Perspective-control lenses are often employed by people working in the field of architect. The lens enables the photographer to manipulate his prime focus, while controlling the deepness of the subject in question. You can use this lens to capture buildings while correcting any meeting perpendicular focuses. You can capture lengths with this lens starting at 45 and reaching up to 90mm. Mirror lenses are available in 500 to 600mm caption. This lens has powerful pull and works well with fixed images. This is an ideal lens for those traveling but need a mirror image view.
  • Review Of Leica 35mm Rangefinder Camera  By : Jerry Taylor
    If you are trying to find a 35mm rangefinder camera, Leica 35mm rangefinder would be the best camera for you. Because you get excellent quality pictures with it.
  • Picture Frames and Photos  By : Josie Lee
    Many picture frames are manufactured and designed for photos of weddings, birthdays, family gatherings and other special occasions.
  • How To Choose The Best Slide Scanning Service  By : Kelly Renaul
    Discusses photo and slide scanning tips and how to choose a slide scanning service.
  • Printing Pictures From Your Digital Camera: No Computer? No Problem  By : Christine Peppler
    For those who do not currently use a digital camera, the process of printing their own photos may seem like a complex process. This article describes how printing their own photos is actually a very simple process.
  • Check out these cool ways to edit your digital photos  By : Dan Brown
    In Digital photography, enhancement is very helpful to help you edit your pictures. Sometimes an original looks so bad, it appears as if nothing can be done to help it. Not true! A couple commonly used enhancements are angle correction of slanted pictures and barrel and pincushion correction. The angle correction basically defines itself in the title. If the picture is slightly titled then the angle correction enhancement will help it out quite a bit. One thing the tool needs to have is anti-aliasing. Barrel and pincushion correction is used to fix slanted horizons that were caused by the camera being used to zoom up as far is could go. These enhancements are used mainly for generally annoying changes that some people wouldn't even notice unless it was dramatic, but are useful nonetheless.
  • Digital photography, where to start  By : Dan Feildman
    If you are considering if you want a camera, you should set yourself a price agreement before going online or visiting an electronics shop. Purchasing a digital camera is just like getting any other large item like a house. There are thousands of options and often you can get puzzled. Before you go buying a gigantic high-end SLR camera, think about the smaller, yet more effective camera. High-end cameras offer the best zoom, the most added features and more megapixels. When you have more megapixels it doesn't mean you will have the best picture condition. As a beginner in the camera world it would be wise to not spend a huge about of money on a high on camera. It is better to look for less expensive, yet powerful, compact digital cameras that are a lot easier to hold and pack around. It is most recommended learn the basics with this digital camera and make sure you enjoy the hobby before spending extra money.
  • Learning more interesting tips on Editing Digtal photography  By : Dan Brown
    Retouching - this type of Photo Shop effects tutorial attempts to teach people how to accomplish the basic goal of Adobe Photo Shop -fix pictures. The retouching Photo Shop effects tutorials helps people get rid of red eye, fix skewed angles and basically make the picture presentable. This is done through the various tools offered by Photo Shop. Majority of the people who look for Photo Shop effects tutorials go with this first because, let's face it, everyone wants to look perfect in their pictures. By learning this Photo Shop effects tutorial, you will be able to take what you can see in nature and give it a whole new reality. Some people eliminate wrinkles, scars, and some actually erase people from group pictures!
  • Want some great and interesting Tips on Learning Photography  By : David Peters
    A very important thing in this part of the process to remember is that you need to back up the picture first or save your changed picture to a different name. If you don't, you won't have a chance to use the original to edit. If you make a mistake at this point, you will be up the proverbial creek without a paddle! If you are going to print a picture, but don't want every piece of the image, then you need to crop it out. This is a basic step to take, especially if you want to enlarge an image, or only use part of the picture itself. You can easily crop (take out) outside areas of a photo, without being an expert at it! Absolute must haves when it comes to printing out a picture, are the proper printer and paper. Without these two items, printing out pictures can be impossible! They don't need to be the most expensive items you can find, but you will want them to be a good quality and easy to use.
  • Using Long Lenses  By : Jan Linden
    Using a telephoto lens to get in close to the action or sneak up on a subject from a discreet distance is terrifically exciting, and can yield great pictures. But the high magnification of long tele and zoom lenses accentuates the effects of camera shake caused by your inability to hold the camera and lens absolutely still. The effects of wind, moving or shaking floors, residual vibration from camera mirrors flipping up just prior to exposure, atmospheric haze, and heat waves can also add problems.
  • Basic Digital Photography: Getting the Light Source Right  By : Christine Peppler
    Lighting is the single most critical factor in determining image quality. Novice photographers can learn to master the basics of lighting to create the images that they want both indoors and outdoors.
  • Basic Digital Photography: The Old Rules Still Apply  By : Christine Peppler
    Want better pictures but don't want to make a life study of photograpy to do it? Don't worry, all of the old rules apply and it isn't too technical. Here are just a few tips you can master easily if you are truly a novice but still want better pictures.
  • Photography as an art  By : Maarers
    Photography is one of the beautiful definitions of an art that expresses the picture portrayed. The three components linked with Photography are artist, medium and the art work. The three components are inter-related to each other.
  • Photography as a talent  By : Maarers
    Photography is a beautiful talent, and it takes a lot to become a known photographer in the field of photography.
  • Get into your element with editing digital photographs  By : Dan Brown
    Here are simple step-by-step instructions on how to come up with great panoramic images using Photoshop CS Photomerge: Open several images of a single scenery in Photoshop CS. Go to the File option, the select Automate, and then go to Photomerge. This will open the Photoshop dialog box. Check that the images you want to merge are in the dialog box. Next check the Attempt to Automatically Arrange Source Images box and then select Ok. The program will then automatically select the images one by one, and attempt to merge them into one panoramic photo. If your photos don't quite match you may get an error because the program cannot merge the images automatically. If this happens don't panic. It is still possible to arrange the images manually. If an errors does occurs, integrate the image or images that were not merged by pulling that image or the images from the top window into the panorama and arranging to the desired position. Photoshop CS will then integrate the image into the panorama automatically.
  • 8 Tips for Protecting a Digital Camera's Memory Card  By : Christine Peppler
    The memory card of a digital camera can hold an enormous number of images that are precious to an owner. When a memory card fails and images are lost the results can feel catastrophic. This article reviews some basic tips on how to care for and use a memory card to help prevent failure.
  • Have some fun with Digital Photography  By : David Peters
    Photography is not just about pointing and pressing a button; it's a decision-making process. One of the best reasons for working photography into your activities and projects is that it helps people better understand the media images they're bombarded with every day. Photography is also just plain fun, and it's a wonderful foundation for community-based projects. If you introduce photography properly, it helps you look much more carefully at the world around you.
  • Getting The Best Out Of Your Digital Camera  By : Roberto Sedycias
    Get to know the features in a digital camera that will help you to make the best use of it. Zoom lens, mega pixel resolution and auto focus are covered as well.
  • Learn the ropes of Digital Photography  By : David Peters
    There are certain features on modern digital cameras that you can live without. Two closely related features in that category are digital zoom and interpolated resolution. Both rely on the same principle, and it is definitely something better left to the editing software on your computer. When on the subject of digital cameras, interpolation is just a term for a computer's best guess as to what should happen when you try to turn one large pixel into more than one smaller pixels. The computer (whether it's your home PC, a dedicated graphics machine at a photo lab, or the chip in your camera) uses mathematical formulas that try to guess, based on the colors of surrounding pixels, what the new substitute pixels should look like. For example, if a series of black pixels in a line on a white background are doubled, the pixels added between the black pixels will be black, and those between the white pixels will be white.
  • Old Fashioned High Resolution Photo Camera  By : Roberto Sedycias
    This article describes another option for photo image enlargement, using the 4x5 inch film camera together with a high definition flat bed film scanner. For those in search for the best film enlargement, using this setup might just surprise you.
  • Want to know some great tips for editing digital photography?  By : Dan Brown
    One problem people face when starting out with digital photography is how to touch up raw digital images. Perhaps an image is slightly dark, perhaps it has to be rotated or cropped. Maybe some dirty spots have to be cleaned out and erased. Digital photos usually require some form of manipulation before final output, unless, of course one takes a perfect picture. The first step is to find an image editor. For beginners, a program that has easy, simple tools will do just fine. More advanced people can move on to more complicated programs.
  • Get more information on Editing Digital Photography  By : Dan Brown
    Color Correction: You can change the color of your image and balance the overall exposure of your images in a number of ways. The most common is by using the levels function or the curves. Here you can gently touch up your photo making the dark areas darker and the lighter areas lighter to achieve greater or lesser contrast. There are countless other methods and techniques you can use with Photoshop to better your images without having them look like they have been altered. Selective blurring can give the impression of movement, you can change certain areas of a photo such as the color of a specific object, red eye effects can be removed, skin blemishes and spots can be hidden and even with a little more skill and knowledge, complete makeovers can be achieved. We have an ever increasing collection of video tutorials on our Photography Book web site which show you step by step how to achieve some of these process.
  • Basic Digital Photograhy: Capturing Night Time Images  By : Christine Peppler
    Digital cameras can capture spectacular night time images. This article offers a handful of tips for the beginner to create quality low light images.
  • 35mm Rangefinder Camera Review  By : Jerry Taylor..
    A camera fitted with a range finder is called 'rangefinder camera'. It has a range-finding focusing mechanism. This allows the photographer to judge the focusing distance to take photographs.
  • Choosing the Right lens  By : Jan Linden
    Every owner of an interchangeable-lens camera is faced with the pleasant dilemma of picking the most appropriate lenses to buy, then deciding which to use. However, there are no rules to go by; much depends on your personal style and what you already own. To help you decide which lenses to buy and how best to use them, we offer the following.
  • Digital Cameras: Caring for the Camera Lens  By : Christine Peppler
    The popularity of digital cameras is due in part to the vivid, life like photographs that they can produce. The lens of a camera is the key to creating these clear, sharp images. However, dust, fingerprints, scratches, and other dirt and smudges can destroy contrast, produce pictures that appear out of focus, and eventually can result in the expense of having to replace the lens, or camera, altogether.
  • Lots of information on Photoshop  By : David Peters
    Wouldn't it be cool to create abstract art? Want to create a mysterious lady that is fire, follow these step by stepy instructions: Start by opening an image of a model in an interesting pose. Create path surrounding her body using pen tool in path mode. Ctrl+Enter the path to get the selection. Hide the image layer. Create a new layer and fill with a solid yellow color. Select gradient tool. Create a gradient. Duplicate the layer. Enable lock transparency pixels form the layer palette. Select multiply as gradient mode from the options bar at top. Apply the gradient several times. Change the layer mode to "Linear Light". Duplicate layer. From "Filter" menu select "Liquify". Select forward warp tool and apply on this layer from down to upwards to create an effect of flames. Change the layer mode to "Pin Light". Select the background layer. Apply the same gradient that we used in the lady silhouette on the background layer. From "Filter" menu select "Render>>Difference Clouds". Reapply this filter a number of times. Press Ctrl+U to open hue/saturation window. Duplicate the layer. Change the layer mode to "Linear Light".
  • The role of a Photographer  By : Maarers
    Wendy as a photographer has grown to be an artist. Expressionsbywendy.com the website is a simple picture of the artistic moves by Wendy in the career of photography. As a Photographer it has definitely taken a mode of an artistic journey of being nothing to becoming a photographer in capturing spirits, emotions, phases of life and expressions.
  • Basic Digital Photography: Taking Control of Exposure  By : Christine Peppler
    Even beginning photographers can take control of their images, creating the images they imagine through manual control of shutter speed and aperture. This article offers a basic explanation of these concepts and how to use them.
  • Wondering how to use your digital camera? Wonder no more  By : David Peters
    Though digital photography has come a long way, beginning photographers must still maintain control of the shots they intend to take. For example, focusing and clarity can be sensed automatically by most digital cameras, but that doesn't necessarily make the picture a good one. Therefore, choosing the right camera, one which allows you to control intensity, contrast and lighting, is not a choice to make sparingly. Most often, people review cameras and pick their own personal favorite, and while the advice may be helpful to others, it is not necessarily for everyone. First, your needs must determine the type of camera you will buy. Do you prefer to have a smaller camera that can be carried around in your pocket, or would you rather a full-size camera which is carried in a bag? The choice is up to the buyer, and should be thought about carefully before making a decision.
  • How to DeaI with Dealers  By : Jan Linden
    Photo dealers, like cameras, come in a staggering variety of sizes, types, and quality grades. Whether they're found in small, local camera stores, big department-store chains, discount houses, or mail-order companies, they all have one thing in common—they'd like to make a sale.
  • Stock Photos Allow Both Amateur and Professional Photographers to Profit  By : Lance_Fish3
    About Photo Daisy.com



    Photography enthusiasts and professional photographers provide a diverse collection of digital images for sale. Photo Daisy allows photographers to store, share, promote and sell their photos to those in need of Stock Photos.



    We are on the web at http://www.PhotoDaisy.com
  • Printers & Paper: Creating Quality Prints from Your Digital Images  By : Christine Peppler
    You've purchased a great new digital camera with fantastic resolution. Now, you have to find a printer that will produce prints that will have life-like colors, clarity, and will last a life time. This article will provide a few tips for how to produce those high quality images.
  • Camcorder Cheat Sheet:5 Tips for Capturing Great Video  By : Christine Peppler
    Although digital video camcorders offer consumers unprecedented ability to edit films to create great home movies, the filming techniques employed by home movie makers have much greater influence on the quality of a home movie than the equipment. This article reviews 5 simple tips for capturing better video for home movies that will keep an audience coming back for more.
  • Get more done with Photoshop  By : David Peters
    A fun idea to do is create an abstract picture, you can do anything you want to it. One fun idea is the add a fire look to a picture, here is a step by step way to do it: First thing's first, get a nice stock photo. I used a stock photo of an eye from deviantART.First of all I opened the photo and resized it to 75% of it's original size. 1. After you've opened your photo up, duplicate the background layer then apply Filter > Distort > Twirl and use the default setting. That should have just distorted it slightly. Now change the layer mode for your duplicated layer to Lighten. That will have made the eye look a little bit alien-like. 2. Now brighten up the picture a little bit by adding in a Brightness/Contrast adjustment layer (Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Brightness/Contrast...) Now this is the part where you choose the fiery color for your photo. Go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Gradient Map. I changed the layer mode for this layer to Linear Light and lowered the opacity to 85%. 3.Ok, here are some nice optional effects.Before adding effects like these, you'll probably need to flatten your image (Layer > Flatten Image) then duplicate the one remaininglayer. First, I applied Filter > Artistic > Rough Pastels with the default settings. Now change the layer mode for this layer to Lighten and maybe lower the opacity if you see it need sit. I lowered the opacity to 70%. 4. To finish this tutorial off, I flattened all the layers, applied Filter > Sharpen > Sharpen, faded the sharpen to about 40% (Edit > Fade) then I added in a little bit of tech and grunge.
  • The Switch from Film to Digital Camera: Making the Adjustment  By : Christine Peppler
    There are numerous physical differences between a film and a digital camera. However, there are just a few differences in their functioning that will require the very casual photographer to adjust how they operate to get the most out of their new digital camera.
  • Using the Camera for Learning and Creativity With Children  By : Christine Peppler
    A child's creativity and learning are easily stimulated through photography. This article presents just a few ideas for children's activities with a camera.
  • Easy step by step processes for Photoshop  By : David Peters
    There are some pretty cool things you can do with Photoshop that can changed your view of text for a while. One interesting one is having some normal text and adding a few shades to make it fun and more interesting. It is in two easy steps: 1. First, create an image about 300 x 100 pixels, and 72 pixels/inch. Select a foreground color of #CACACA, and fill the image, to make the background this color. When you've filled the background, then select your text tool, and add the text you want to add, make the color of the text close to #3F3F3F A darker grey. 2. OK, now we can add the shadow. It is as easy as adding a layer effect and can come in very useful for other things too. Go to Blending Options (Right-click on text layer).You will get a menu with structure, elements and quality. In the structure menu you would select 100% opacity, 0% noise, and the solid not gradient option. For the elements you would want the technique to be softer, the spread 2% and the size 8pixels. For quality you want 55% range and 0% jitter. You can always play around a little with these, if it does not suit. (The color used for the shadow is #8A8A8A) So once you have that, just click OK, and you should get your final result. It's as easy as that!
  • Camcorder Cheat Sheet:6 Tips for Getting Better Audio  By : Christine Peppler
    In the quest for better quality home movies, hundreds of thousands of consumers purchase digital video camcorders every year. What few understand is that although these camcorders are truly talented filming devices, it is the skill of the movie maker and the quality of the audio and video that they capture that determines how viewable their film is in the end. This article offers 6 very simple tips for getting better audio for home movies that will win critical acclaim from friends and family.
  • Basic Digital Photography: Taking Action Shots  By : Christine Peppler
    Digital cameras have changed the nature of personal photography. More impromptu shots, daily events, and action shots are taken as beginning photographers can experiment without the cost of film and developing as they store images on computer and share over the internet. This article provides a handful of tips to help beginners take better action shots.
  • How To Take Beautiful Pictures of Your Cat?  By : Charley Huang
    When you first bring your new pet feline home after purchasing it, there is a mixture of excitement and happiness in the household, especially for the kids. Make sure you have your camera ready in your hand so you can capture some sweet and adorable memories your family and yourself can cherish in the time to come. Don’t just snap rolls and rolls of pictures of your cat on the first day it arrives in your home. Always have some film available, and take the pictures of your cat’s progress over the months. This way, you will be able to see its growth, and how fast it learns.
  • Getting more info on photoshop  By : Dan Feildman
    In order to understand color management, it is important to get your hands around some of the workflow. It is also important to understand a little bit about the ICC itself. The ICC or "International Color Consortium" was created in 1993 by a number major corporations with the goal of assisting end users in creating consistent color throughout the entire reproduction process. ICC profiles are a means by which one device can translate the same color information to another. This process is applied in graphics programs like Adobe Photoshop, and created in color management systems like X-rite's Pulse or ColorVision's Spyder software.
  • Digital Photography by Taylor Miles  By : Taylor Miles Miles
    Travel photography is a branch of commercial photography that has helped the world become a smaller place, from the most vivid images of the Taj Mahal to the finest mural's on the cathedral in Italy, there is nothing that has not been depicted in pictures. Travel photography has been made immensely popular by travel magazines, and cultural magazines like the national geographic. One of the most exciting and challenging aspects of travel photography is capturing the cultural aspects of a particular country or region. There have been so many wonderful and explicit pictorials of various countries, that it is almost impossible to ignore the wonderful impact travel photography has had on the lives of so many people.
  • Black and white photography  By : TJ Tierney
    With today’s digital technology, transforming colour images into black and white photographic prints is pretty straightforward but don’t throw away your rolls of black and white film.



    Black and white photography is still regarded as a favourite with many photographers - dull landscape scenes become more dramatic with black and white photography.
  • Get some cool Photoshop tips  By : David Peters
    Want to add some metal and ink to people in your family, well read this: Press SHIFT+M and cycle through the marquee tools until you come to the circle (alright, elliptical marquee tool) . Once that's selected, you'll see some options at the top of the canvas. In the drop down list next to Style, choose 'Fixed Aspect Ratio'. This of course gives us a perfectly round circle selection every time. Go ahead and drag one out now. Not too big, though. Good. Now we need to go Select->Modify->Border. A screen pops up asking you how many pixels wide you want it to be. I put 3 here. Now we need to put something in it. Stop! Before we fill it with color, we have to make a new layer (CRTL+SHIFT+N). Now press SHIFT +F5 to bring up the Fill screen, and from the drop down menu choose '50% grey'. We don't need the selection now, so CRTL+D to deselect. Now a round circle isn't going to be very realistic. What we need to do now is distort it a bit. Press CRTL+T to enter transform mode, then right-click and choose 'Distort' from the menu. Now play around moving the handlebars around the square. Good. We could now just take the eraser tool and get rid of that bit in the middle. A better way, though, is to use a mask. At hte bottom of the layers panel you'll see a little grey rectangle with a white circle in it. Click it and our layer gets a brother. The foreground/background colors also change to black and white. Now if we paint black, it will take away the ring, and if we then paint white, it will bring back what we painted black. Just to the left of the mask icon on the layers panel, you will see as well the Layer Style icon. Click it now and from the list that springs down, choose 'Bevel and Emboss'. This is pops up another screen with lots of options on it. We don't need to change anything for now, though. You will also see that our ring is updated in real time, so we can see the results straight away. To give it more highlights and make it shinier, hit the 'Gloss Contour' box. Another screen pops up where you can alter the mapping. Just click and drag the black line until it is like the example.
  • Battery Devouring Digital Cameras and the People Who Love Them  By : Christine Peppler
    Digital cameras offer a vast array of automated functions for capturing and transferring images. Unfortunately, digital cameras are also know for their huge energy demands. This article reviews some of the ways owners can adjust their digital camera use to conserve energy.
Miscellaneous:
Writers:
Sign Up for a free account
Submit Articles
Member Login
Submission Guidelines
New Articles:
Ezine Notifications
Article RSS Feeds
Statistics:
Top Authors
Most Popular Articles
Today's Hot:
About Us
Link to Us
Contact Us
Privacy Policy
Terms of Service

Powered by Article Dashboard