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Trendy Camera-Bag-Look with Crumpler

A bag serves as the receptacle to different items. Commonly, it is made from leather, cloth or paper which can easily be opened and closed. ...
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Canvas Camera Bags: Protecting Your Camera While Looking Good

It is a fact that the profession of photography will require you to purchase a lot of equipments. Even if you are just a recreational photog...
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Canon Camera Bag: Protecting Your Expensive Canon Camera

Today, digital cameras are a must-have for everyone. It may be more expensive than your regular film camera on the first purchase, but you w...
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Workflow: The Digital Darkroom

Before digital photography came of age, photographs had to go through the darkroom.  Like cars on a conveyor belt, each image had to go thro...
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Bags Galore: The Camera Backpack for a Stylish Camera Carrying Gear

When you go out of the house to go somewhere else, you never forget to bring your bag. Bags are very important; it's where you put all y...
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White Balance and Color Cast

Light has color. Most people don't realize what difference light sources make in photography until they see the results--and then wond...
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Bean Bag for Your Camera

Watching television at home and sitting in your favorite bean bag offers a lot of comfort. But did you know that not all bean bags are large...
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What Photo Editing Software should I use?

If you're serious about photography, and if you're looking for the best and most powerful photo editing program around, the de facto...
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Unsharp Mask

Yes, the name is backwards.  The "Unsharp Mask" tool in Adobe Photoshop and other programs does exactly the opposite of what the n...
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Understanding the Histogram

Imagine, for a moment, if we could do a statistical analysis on a digital photo. We would want some way to count how many dots of each col...
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Sharpening

Digital photo editing beginners often misunderstand what the Sharpening tool can do for a photo. The first thing to remember about Sharpen...
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Red Eye Removal

One of the most common problems in photography is the demonic transformation of the Red Eye effect.  It comes from using a flash in a dimly ...
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Photochopping

Photochopping involves using a photo editing program to edit a picture.  It's regarded by many as a visual parody, though some people fe...
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Photo Editing the News

With the advent of digital photography, news has become closer and more immediate.  A combat photographer embedded with troops in Iraq can s...
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Photo Editing Terms 6 - T to Z

Thumb Drive A Thumb Drive is one name for a USB Flash Chip.  Other nicknames are Jump Drive and USB Keychain. The Thumb Drive comes in vari...
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Photo Editing Terms 5 - R to S

Red Eye Red Eye is the reflection of the camera flash off of the back of the subject's eyes.  It happens most often with a bright flash...
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Photo Editing Terms 4 - M to R

Megabyte A megabyte is generally about a million bytes, or a thousand kilobytes.  Technically, a megabyte is 1024 kilobytes. Megapixel A...
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Photo Editing Terms 3 - I to M

Image Resolution The Resolution is the number of pixels, or dots, in a picture. Inkjet Printer An Inkjet printer sprays tiny jets of ink...
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Photo Editing Terms 2 - D to I

Dodging Dodging is making a section of a photo lighter.  When this is done in the darkroom, it's usually by blocking some of the light ...
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Photo Editing Terms 1 - A to D

Aperture The Aperture is the size of the opening in the camera lens at the moment a photo is taken.  Aperture is measured in fractions, so ...
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Photo Editing Overview

Photographs capture a moment in time. Photos are generally regarded as "factual," as opposed to a drawing or painting, which wou...
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Tips for Finding a Perfect Olympus Camera Bag

Camera bags are widely available in different colors, sizes, designs, shapes, functions, and materials. This is an essential equipment for p...
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Online Photo Editors

Let's say you're on vacation.  You've just taken a fantastic picture with your brand-new SupraUltraMax 18 megapixel camera, and ...
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Megapixels

In the world of marketing digital cameras, megapixels seem to be the beginning and end of a camera's power.  Like a computer's RAM a...
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JPG Compression

"I've heard a lot of confusing stuff about JPGs. Some people tell me they're perfect for online photography, and other people w...
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History of Photo Faking

Almost as soon as the first photographs came out of cameras, people were using them to manipulate images. Take, for example, the very famo...
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History - Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop is the market leader in photo editing software.  Originally designed by John and Thomas Knoll in 1987 for the Macintosh, the...
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Free Photo Editing Software

Are there any cheaper alternatives to Adobe Photoshop CS2's steep price? There are a handful of products in the under-$100 price range...
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History - Deluxe Paint

One of the first really powerful photo editing programs was Deluxe Paint, designed by Dan Silva and Electronic Arts for the Commodore Amiga ...
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Ethics of Photo Editing

In the past, photo editing was time consuming and tedious.  Anything beyond simply lightening or darkening a picture meant hours of painstak...
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Digital Image File Types

There are so many different file types to choose from, like RAW, JPG, GIF, TIFF, and PNG.  Which one is right for you? RAW is the internal...
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Cropping and Straightening

Imagine returning home from the family reunion, camera in hand, and waiting for the printed pictures to come back.  After a delay of at leas...
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