Using Adobe Lightroom© to Organize, Edit & Export Your Digital Photos
In the last few years, Adobe© has been rolling out some new pieces of software aimed towards digital photographers and designers alike. One of Adobe©’s newest pieces of software is targeted towards professional photographers, and is called Adobe Photoshop Lightroom© (or just Adobe Lightroom© to most). When Lightroom© first hit the market, those of us schooled in Photoshop© since Version 3 looked upon the newcomer as a mismatch of features we already used. We wondered who would want to use something that didn’t have all the “power” of Photoshop©. We couldn’t have been more wrong. Lightroom©...
read moreAdobe Lightroom©, Photoshop©, or Photoshop Elements© – Which One is Right for You?
Adobe© is known for being the “big dog” when it comes to digital corrections and changes to images. In recent years, Photoshop© has even become a verb: for example, “Look at that photo – I bet they ‘Photoshopped’ it.” However, with so many software products out there, it seems to harder and harder to know which Photoshop© program will work best for us. Let’s take a step back and weigh the pros and cons of each program so you can decide which will work best for your needs. The Classic: Photoshop© Photoshop© has been around for the longest amount of time, and it is still the go to program for...
read moreAdobe Photoshop© Tutorial: How to Perk Up Your Digital Images
As a Photoshop© instructor, one common complaint I get a lot from older photographers is that their digital images just don’t have the “snap” and “color” of their film images. In the days of yore when we shot only with film, we would sometimes even pick up certain brands of film for those special looks. In fact, it was said that if you wanted good-looking portraits, you used Kodak. For landscapes, it was Fuji film. With today’s digital cameras you no longer have different films, but you can still get just the look you want – either by using the dialed-in settings on your digital camera or by...
read moreWatch Where You Point That Thing: Understanding Focus Points and How to Use Them
Oftentimes with older film cameras, images ended up out of focus (or in technical camera terms, “fuzzy”). This was because we needed to rotate the lens to get the sharpest photo. But all of that is in the past, right? Those of us with the more expensive digital cameras (like DSLRs) know that this is not the case. This is due to two factors – one is called “depth of field” (DOF) and the second is called “focus points.” Depth of field (DOF) is really just the amount of the image that is in focus. Directly connected to the f-stop, DOF will be different depending on the f-stop, or aperture, that...
read moreFacebook Brings Timeline to Pages: What You Should Know
Facebook has recently launched Timeline for Pages. It is a similar layout to the Timeline we now see on all our personal profiles, but the functionality is just perfect for businesses. You can either choose to embrace the changes now, or wait until March 30, 2012 when Facebook will automatically switch every Page to the new Timeline. Change can be scary sometimes, so here is a brief overview of the changes to hopefully get you excited about Timeline for Pages. I’ll go over what is new, why is it good, and the one thing you may miss. New Design and Layout The most obvious of these changes...
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