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If you’re a serious shutterbug, there are few places on the Internet better than Flickr for sharing photos and discussing all aspects of digital photography. Flickr offers both free and paid subscriptions, and after you open your account and start building your own photostream, you’ll want to sign up for several of the tens of [...]
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The digital camera is another great example of a technology we take for granted. Because we had film-based cameras for so long, the idea of capturing an image isn’t that miraculous to us any more. So, with  the natural progression of technology making picture taking more and  more instant, we all seemed to just kind of [...]
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The most widely used method for photographers and artists to protect their work online is by using the watermark. Basically, a transparent yet fully visible image laid over the original image to signify that the image is not to be copied or used for free or without permission. This will work for most people, but [...]
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Photography is a hobby that millions of people partake in every day. For many people, including me, it started out when they were a kid snapping pretend photos with their dad’s empty camera. Now, with digital SLRs readily available and even the world’s first ever 3D camera now on the scene, the hobby (and indeed [...]
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Some of my best digital photos are usually too large to share on the web via email, Facebook, or on my blog. Full high resolution photos need to be shared in a smaller sized low-resolution “˜preview’. I wished there were a better way to share my large images on Flickr easily. Guess what ““ the new [...]
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You know the feeling that comes to us all one fine day. You open your pictures folder and see a graphical stew of pictures which you have never bothered to rename and arrange. In this cluttered mix, you can’t tell between the snap you took of your birthday party last year or this year. During [...]
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Up-scaling, upsizing or digitally increasing the size of a picture is perhaps less of a requirement than the opposite i.e. cropping. The basic nature of a photo makes any change in its natural dimensions an ill advised task. As any guy who has dabbled with graphic tools will tell you, enlarging a raster or bitmapped [...]
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Flickr isn’t a dating agency, and if you’re looking for the love of your life we have better advice, but it’s a great place to find people who care about the same things, at least photographically. Step 1 ““ Show off your best No one is ever going to know what sorts of photos you [...]
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Stock photography is all over the place on the Web. If you’re looking for an image of just about anything, you’re bound to find that professional, high-quality photo from various online distributors and agencies, like Getty Images, Corbis, iStockphoto, or Shutterstock. However, the downside is that all those photos are going to cost you. It’s [...]
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Call me the wannabe pro photographer. My motto is “Shoot everything now, think about them later.” I always thought that among those blurry and often ‘out of the frame’ shots, there should be one or two jewels worth bragging and blogging. The Mac and the cameras So I connect my digital camera to my Mac [...]
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We come from dust, we return to dust. Thankfully, it’s for us living beings and not for digital data. A slew of software makes it possible to recover files which have been lost. Where would digital forensics be without them? Well, I am not getting into the criminal underbelly, but just jabbering about a long [...]
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I mentioned in an earlier post that there was a new feature in Windows 7 called libraries, but I was mean enough not to provide any details. Here’s my attempt to make up for it. First off, this isn’t difficult or complicated, and it is very cool. Windows XP and Vista used something called Known [...]
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You can find out a lot about photography right here on MakeUseOf. Stitching panoramas, finding new cameras, adding borders to photographs, getting your images noticed, finding photos, photo blogs,  and a whole lot more, but sometimes you need a real fix. You need, in fact, to get amongst it. Here are some places to go. [...]
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So, we’ve covered all the core Picasa capabilities. It’s taken five posts, but it’s a big subject. We’ve gone through Installation, Views, Editing and Special Effects. It’s time to think outside the box in this last post. Kate’s done a stunning job of reviewing my notes on a Mac, and letting me know what’s different. [...]
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Hi there. Post 4 of 5. We’ve looked at Installation, Views and Editing, and now we’re going to take a look at the special effects magic that Picasa can work on your images. Feel free to head back to the start, or just dive in here. Kate, who has been helping me with Mac version [...]
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