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Tagging photos: why it’s important

Tagging photos: why it’s important

Tagging digital images allows you to quickly find files based on common keywords and phrases you attribute to them. It sure beats navigating through folders on your hard drive.

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18 Percent Gray Card

18 Percent Gray Card

Useful for determining proper exposure and calibrating light meters, many photographers consider a gray card an indispensable accessory.

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Focus & Recompose or Compose & Focus?

Focus & Recompose or Compose & Focus?

When moving from a compact digital camera to a digital single lens reflex camera, the tried-and-true technique of locking focus first and then recomposing may not always result in sharp images.

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The Electronic Copyright Office

The Electronic Copyright Office

Register basic claims to copyright for literary, visual and performing arts works directly online at the eCO website. Fees are lower and processing time is faster.

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Erasing & formatting a memory card

Erasing & formatting a memory card

It’s important to understand the difference between erasing and formatting a memory card. Here’s why, and when, each method of deleting images should be used.

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The Digital Negative

The Digital Negative

As the Digital Negative (DNG) becomes more widely acceptable, it will ensure that photographers shooting RAW can access their image files in the future.

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Which photo editing software?

Which photo editing software?

If you want to move beyond basic photo editing, consider these popular image editing and enhancing programs. Some are free, some are inexpensive; all are worth giving a try.

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PhotoFiltre image retouching program

PhotoFiltre image retouching program

PhotoFiltre is a free image retouching program. It not a widely known but is certainly worth trying. It has plenty of features and fun filters that casual photo editors will find useful.

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