Articles, tutorials, interesting web sites and other useful information:
Resizing Images for club and Regional/National Salons:
Here we have a tutorial on resizing images for projection in a number of different applications
This is a work in progress so if you have instructions for any other applications not currently listed please send them to Don for inclusion in this tutorial.
Resizing Images Tutorial
Emailing images directly from Picasa
When you use the "email" feature in Picasa it makes the images smaller automatically when it sends them to help your email go faster. The default settings is 480 pixels
Unfortunately this makes the images sent unusable for anything like printing or projecting.
To send pics large enough for printing or club competition entries you will need change the email settings in Picasa so that it won't automatically make the images too small.
1. Start Picasa
2. Go to the "Tools" menu and click on "Options"
3. Click on the "Email" tab
4. Go down to the "Output Options" section
5. The first one is "When sending more than one picture, resize to"
Slide the bar along until it shows at least 1024
6. The second one is "When sending single pictures, resize to"
Make sure "1024 pixels" or "Original Size" is marked
7. Click Apply and then OK
Download a more detailed Picasa emailing, resizing & renaming tutorial HERE
Photography Tutorials:
Filters by Michelle McCarthy :
A great slide show presentation on using filters. (10mb download)
Filters Tutorial
Photographing Smoke:
Secrets of smoke photography
http://www.photocritic.org/2007/artsmoke-photographing-smoke
ShortCourses.Com:
Lots of step by step Photography tutorials.
www.shortcourses.com
Table Top Studio:
Table top & product photography tutorials
www.tabletopstudio.com/documents/HowTo_page.htm
Night and Low Light Photography:
A tutorial on low light and night photography along with a small calculator you can make yourself that will tell you what shutter and aperture settings to use for a variety of low light scenes.
Download .pdf document tutorial HERE (Right click and "save target as")
Download .pdf document night exposure calculator template HERE (Right click and "save target as")
Photo Equipment Reviews & Info:
Digital Photography Review:
Reviews and info on everything from cameras to memory cards and software.
www.dpreview.com
By Thom Hogan:
Nikon reviews and tutorials
www.bythom.com/index.htm
Photoshop:
Photoshop Tips & Tricks:
Tutorials and info on Photoshop.
www.graphic-design.com/Photoshop/index.html
Russell Browns Photoshop Tutorials
Hundreds of tips & tricks often as easy to follow movies etc.
www.russellbrown.com
Adobe:
Home of photoshop and Elements.
www.adobe.com/digitalimag/main.html
About.Com - Graphics Software:
A huge resource of photoshop tutorials from basic to advanced.
www.graphicssoft.about.com/od/photoshop/Adobe_Photoshop_Resources.htm
The Photoshop CS Workspace
A description of the CS workspace and all of the tools with some tips and helpful shortcut keys.
Download .pdf document HERE (Right click and "save target as")
Other Tutorials & Resources:
Making fine prints in your digital darkroom by Norman Koren
www.normankoren.com/makingfineprints.html
Outback Photo Tutorials:
A great collection of digital tutorials
http://handbook.outbackphoto.com/index_news.html
About.Com:
Lots of info and tutorials for all sorts of graphics applications.
www.graphicssoft.about.com
Interesting Photo Galleries and Sites:
Just at the right time
Worth 1000.Com
One of the largest and best galleries of digital images on the net.
Enter the competitions, join the forums and have lots of fun
http://www.worth1000.com
On-Line Printing:
Frog Prints:
Digital photo printers in Penrose, Auckland
Email files and they will post prints back to you.
Great service and pricing.
www.frogprints.co.nz
Digital Max :
Digital photo printers in Mt Wellington, Auckland
Email files and they will post prints back to you.
Great service and pricing.
www.digitalmax.co.nz
Other Digital Imaging Software:
Fast Stone:
Great free software for photographers
www.faststone.org
Picasa:
Free manipulation and cataloguing software
www.picasa.com
Corel:
The home of "Paint Shop Pro" another great digital imaging application
www.corel.com
Serif Photo Plus:
Download free version 6 or upgrade to version 8 for just US$9.99
www.freeserifsoftware.com/software/PhotoPlus/
AV Software:
Photodex:
The home of Pro Show Gold
www.photodex.com
Wn Soft:
The home of Pictures To Exe
www.wnsoft.com/apr/
Security:
Avast Ant Virus:
Avast is a great free ant virus application.
Download and install it then go back and register for the automatic updates.
If you don't currently run anti virus software DO IT NOW!!!
www.avast.com/
Technical Computer Issues:
Windows Vista Destroys Photo Metadata
A bit of bad news about Vista if you're a photographer. Apparently if you tag a photo's metadata in Vista, it destroys other important metadata used by image editing apps such as Photoshop. Microsoft's gotten reports of RAW files generated by Nikon cameras being unreadable after being tagged with Vista or Microsoft's Photo Info tool...
http://news.com.com/2061-10805_3-6157801.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-5&subj=news
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