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Tips, Tutorials, Hacks

Selecting foregrounds in the GIMP (video)

This video is a quick demonstration of the foreground selection tool in the GIMP, a powerful and free image editing application. The foreground selection tool gives photographers a quick and easy way to isolate portions of a photograph for masking or other effects. Music by sunbyrn.

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Feeling Adventurous?

I have long been an outdoor sports enthusiast. I love to hike, bike, kayak, and climb. My camera sometimes comes with me, but often not. There are two reasons I usually leave the camera at home, firstly it's relatively heavy which, especially for hiking and climbing, is a big [...]

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Tethered shooting on Ubuntu Linux using gPhoto2

View photos on your computer screen almost as fast as you can shoot them.

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Stringpods: Pocket-Sized Camera Stabilizers

An innovative and inexpensive way to add stabilization to any camera without a tripod.

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Anatomy of a photo: The silly faces project

I recently published this photo on Flickr (click here to view larger) and it received a lot of interest so I thought I'd share how I made it. Taking 64 photos like this may look like a lot of work but it can actually be done quite easily. Here's how [...]

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