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10 Rules For Top Digital Quality
Format, Exposure, Highlight Control, And More
Steve Bedell  |  Mar 01, 2004

Now that digital is no longer new, a few rules of the road have been established that most folks would agree yield better quality results. Of course, you might find that bending the rules might be fun, and that there's still lots to learn. But these...

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Creative Portrait Backgrounds Using Photoshop 6.0
Darryl C. Nicholas  |  Mar 01, 2001

In the "old days" we kept dozens of different backgrounds in our studio. By using different colored lights on them, we could create even more different options for our portrait customers. Today all of that is mostly obsolete. It is now...

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A Traditional Photographer Merges Film And Digital Techniques; The Art And Craft Of Richard Lohmann
Steve Bedell  |  Feb 01, 2006

One look at the work of Richard Lohmann and you know you are viewing the work of a very skilled photographic practitioner. But what really has Lohmann excited these days are evolutions in digital technology. A combination of advanced film processing techniques and new ink technology has convinced Lohmann that he can now produce images comparable in quality to platinum prints...

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Adobe Offering Lightroom 5.6 and Camera Raw 8.6 with Support for Nikon D810
Dan Havlik  |  Jul 31, 2014

Adobe announced this morning that final release versions of Lightroom 5.6 and Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) 8.6 are now available.

Adobe customers can can get the apps through the update mechanism in Photoshop CC and Photoshop CS6, or through the download links at the bottom of this page. Adobe says these updates correct "issues reported in earlier versions of Lightroom 5 and Camera Raw 8," without being specific about what those issues were.

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Affordable Image Editing Options; There’s More Than One Way To Work On Your Photos
Anthony L. Celeste  |  Jul 01, 2008

Photoshop has become so prevalent in the world of photo editing, that the word Photoshop is becoming synonymous with photo editing.

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After The Shoot
Editing Is A Mist For Digital Photography
Jay Abend  |  Mar 01, 2000

Even if you have vowed to never get involved in the digital imaging revolution, you've got to admit that you probably are amazed at some of the seamless things that can be done with photo editing programs like Adobe Photoshop.

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Another Option
Dodging And Burning In With Photoshop
Darryl C. Nicholas  |  Sep 01, 2001

Back in the
old days when I spent most of my life in a conventional darkroom, I used
to do a fair amount of dodging and burning-in. For some strange reason
almost every picture needed some slight adjustments. As long as I was...

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Aperture’s Light Table; Layout And Picture Stories: A Newfound Tool For A Lost Art
Rod Lawton  |  Oct 01, 2007

The old-style picture stories once popular in newspapers and magazines seem to have fallen out of favor. That's a shame, because picture stories remain a very effective and powerful means of expression. When you are preparing pictures for publication, exhibition, or even a personal portfolio, you will need to spend some time comparing, selecting, and juxtaposing photographs...

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Archiving Aid; Make A CD Cover That Shows Thumbnails
Howard Millard  |  Mar 01, 2004

Do you backup your digital photos onto CD or DVD discs? Whether your digital pictures are JPEG or raw files from a digital camera, scans from prints, negatives, or slides, or corrected and enhanced versions saved in your image-editing software's...

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Archiving For The Digital Studio
Protecting Your Images In The Digital Age
Jay Abend  |  Sep 01, 2003

How important are your negatives and transparencies? Do you have them neatly arranged in archival pages, or strewn all over your living room floor? Even if you're not a terribly organized person you realize the importance of the processed film...

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Are LCD Flat Panel Displays Ready For The Digital Darkroom?
How To Choose And Use The Newest LCDs
David B. Brooks  |  Nov 01, 2004

In the past couple of years I've reported on LCD flat panel displays either as part of an integrated system (Apple and Sony) or as a stand-alone product (LaCie Photon 19). Although these LCD displays offered some distinct advantages, I did not see that they could replace the functionality of CRTs when it came to image processing. Until a little less than a year ago their...

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Are Your Prints Too Dark?; The Cause, And The Cure
David B. Brooks  |  Aug 01, 2009

The blame is placed on printer drivers, the printers themselves, poor color management, and bad profiles, making the overall body of both confusing and enlightening.

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B And W Negative Scanning
A Step By Step, Easy Way To Quality Images
David B. Brooks  |  Sep 01, 2002

Scanner software driver pre-scan tools have come a long way in the last few years, but scanning black and white silver-based film negatives has remained a neglected stepchild. This is not to say some scanners don't work OK with some black and white negative films. But if you want optimum quality with all...

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Backgrounds & Montages
Create A Unique, Custom Image For Your Portrait Clients
Woody Walters  |  Apr 01, 2005

All Photos © 2004, Woody Walters, All Rights Reserved

Ansel Adams once told me that it is the background that makes or breaks the image. The background is what will tie all the key elements of a photograph together. I learned very early in my career that it's true whether you're shooting large format landscapes or even if you're shooting digital senior...

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Beyond Layer Basics; They’re Not Just For Composites
Philip Andrews  |  Mar 01, 2007

Despite what many photographers think, there is more to Photoshop's layer technology than its ability to bring together several images. Some of the most sophisticated layer techniques are not based on composing different image parts but rather use the characteristics of the layer technology to provide nondestructive editing alternatives for many of our standard enhancement...

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