Photo Editing Tips

Shoot your own

To make things easier for the beginner in photo editing is to get images that are editing friendly. To do this, you may want to start taking pictures yourself for practice. A controlled environment is better. You can make a make-shift studio if you want. Just choose a location that has a plain background. When shooting, choose angles that will make the background easier to remove while editing. To set the background out of focus, use a longer lens and open up the aperture

Things you should know before shooting with your camera.

Ethics are like international codes that should not be violated. If you violate it, well, nothing will happen to you really, but the person you have displayed an unethical behavior may be offended in some way or another.

Even photography has ethics. When you’re in an unfamiliar place, you can’t just shoot and shoot until your film/battery/memory runs out. Before taking pictures, you have to ask for permission. Yes, even award-winning photographers do that. If you wish to take photos of candid moments, ask for permission too and tell them that it’s supposed to be a “candid” photo, so they have to act natural. There is nothing better than being polite. You wouldn’t want some unknown stranger taking your photos too, right?

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Geo-Aware Photos

More than just photos, these pictures have get-tagging information included with the file information allowing those applications that can use and recognize geo-aware information to map them and show their location in relation to a map that is presented to the many mashables that are coming out onto the market to date. Life and pictures of your travels are being made more and more powerful, able to capture the exact location with get-tagging enabled camera’s and video systems that have small yet powerful gps receivers. Continue reading Geo-Aware Photos…

Some of the tips for Photoshop CS3

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Drawing straight lines without using the line tool
Choose one of the available tools for drawing a line except line tool (Eraser tool, pencil tool, brush tool, etc) and then hold the shift key while dragging the pointer horizontally or vertically.

Drawing straight lines using the brush tool
While the brush tool is selected, click where you want to start the first point to be at. Then hold the shift key and click to the other point where you want your line to end. You may also use this technique mostly to other tools like highlight tool and eraser tool.

Tips at creating shapes
To start drawing from the center, hold alt while dragging. To create perfect shapes of a square, a circle, or when you are using the polygon tool, hold shift while dragging. If you are using any of tools for drawing like the brush tool, or line tool, and you want to move what you are drawing, hold the spacebar and drag it to where you want your drawing placed.

Closing multiple windows of Photoshop
Hold shift while going to the file menu and choose close.

The best thing about analogue cameras.

Why do you think analogue cameras are a photographer’s favorite? He/she can go digital if he/she wants to anyway. Besides, it’s much more convenient to shoot photos using digital cameras as you can transfer, edit, duplicate to a thousand with just one click, the photo immediately after you press that shoot button. You don’t even have to worry about film waste.

But even though digital cameras (even those digital SLRs) give you these perks, there is this one thing that an analogue camera can give that a digital one can’t—and that is fulfillment.

Yes, amateur and professional photographers love the old-school feel. I personally know one, a student-professional, who prefers taking pictures using his analogue SLR. He said that no other feeling can be compared (as a photographer) when he shoots with his old SLR. The fact that you develop your own pictures and you see the result after, the feeling of satisfaction is priceless.

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Black & white or colored?

When you ask photography students if they prefer shooting in black & white or colored, most probably they’ll answer you unanimously, “are you silly? Of course, black & white!”. People who are not familiar with black & white photography tend to see these photos as dull, boring and dry. But the truth is, if you think shooting colored photos are hard (exposure and all the nitty gritty terms these photographers use), then shooting black & white photos are harder. They have this term called “white balance” wherein, if done wrong, can make the black color of the photo look grayish. The white balance is also needed in order for the subject of the photo to look sharp.

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