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On Mother’s Day and other Images (2)–

Whenever I receive an image from readers that get me curious about how it was done, I immediately look at the exif data of the photograph. This is the set of data that digital cameras attach to every picture that is taken. It includes the make of the camera, [...]

Trying it out (Part V)–

Quick! Let’s say it’s your wedding then you start noticing that one of your suppliers (the florist, the coordinator, the videographer or the photographer) keeps yapping about his or her own relationship – their foibles, their triumphs, their first date. Is this really the place for such? More, is this the [...]

A Beginner’s Guide to
Flash Photography
Power Management of Your Flash
(Part 48)
(Author’s note: It occurs that even though the NiCad battery has been in use by our photographers for a few decades now, there hasn’t been a local publication that discussed in detail about the properties of this battery chemistry. And it is a fact that NiCad [...]

Sharing Images (4)–
Our first freeware feature today is the Tintii Photo Filter, a tool for applying color effects to your pictures. The software removes all colors from the original image and gives the user a choice of which colors he/she may want to retain. The rest of the picture remains in black and white. Colors, [...]

Trying Out (Part IV)–

People new to photography usually don’t have all the equipment they want to have. Not everybody has all the money in the world and even some of the best photographers started out this way. Jake Versoza, for one, always the talented dude that he is, didn’t always use professional-grade lenses. Early on, [...]

Localized Editing in LR2 (Part II)–
 

Straighten Tool and the Angle Slider
If you want to straighten, for example, the horizon in a landscape or a building, choose any of these methods:
a.  Using the Rotate icon. When you click the Crop Overlay tool, an outline appears around the photo with adjustments handles. If you move the pointer [...]

On Mother’s Day and other Images–
Readers who use film cameras and scan their negatives may be interested in the Polaroid’s Dust and Scratches Removal software. This is a program to clean image dust after the scanning process. How is it different from other photo editors? Instead of just blurring the dust, the PDSR analyzes the [...]