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Screencast: Creating a photo book

This is the fourth or fifth book I've created at Shutterfly. I really like their book maker. It's easy to use, provides a good selection of layout choices, has a couple of different ways to pre-fill your book to get you going quickly, and there is no software to install---all [...]

Tips, Tutorials, Hacks

Screencast: Editing Huntington Beach Pier Sunset

A short screencast showing the power of the curves tool for enhancing contrast, increasing saturation, and color adjustment. A large final version of this photo can be seen at lightproofbox.com. This photo is from an essay I wrote called Patience, A Photographer's Ally.

Reviews

Animoto for Photography

I created the above sample video in about 5 minutes using my photos and music from their commercially licensed stock library. Dead simple, nice results. Animoto is so easy because it allows you to exchange control over the video for incredible production speed. Although Animoto does most of the work, [...]

Photography 101

12 Steps to Understanding Your Digital SLR

From wikiHow, a 12-step program for getting to know your brand new digital SLR camera: When they were first introduced, digital SLR cameras were enormously expensive and a tool for professionals only. Since then, they have come down in price into the consumer price range. Because of this, many people buy [...]

Tips, Tutorials, Hacks

Screencast: Curves color enhancement tutorial

This 2.5 minute screencast shows a simple and fast technique using multiple layers to enhance the colors in a photograph. GIMP is free photo editing software for Windows, Mac and Linux. I published the final version of this photo at Flickr.