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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"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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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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