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Photography: Digital Panoramas

Photography: Digital Panoramas

Panoramas are usually more effective when taking pictures of far off landscapes, but they can still work with close objects you just have to be really good. One crucial thing you must remember when trying these is to use the exact same exposure settings for each picture or some will be darker and lighter. When taking the actual pictures you need to make sure you have at least 1/3 of each picture overlapping with the next one, this makes the stitching much more accurate.

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Photography: The Rules of Composition

Photography: The Rules of Composition

Composition is the combining of distinct parts or elements to form a whole. In photography that thought is very important in taking good pictures. The following guidelines are just to be thought about though, it is not necessary to try to use them with every picture you take or there wouldn’t be any creativity in your work.

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How to Create a Water Motion Blur Effect

How to Create a Water Motion Blur Effect

This tutorial is to help you learn how to make a water motion blur (slow shutter speed) effect on a photo that had a fast shutter speed. Normally you would need a tripod to make this effect when taking the picture, but with this technique you can simply add the motion blur effect later.

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How to Create a Surreal Black and White Effect

How to Create a Surreal Black and White Effect

This tutorial is to help you learn how to create a black and white diffused glow effect that can create a surreal scene.

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How to Straighten a Crooked Photo in Photoshop

How to Straighten a Crooked Photo in Photoshop

This tutorial is to help you learn how to straighten crooked photos. Sometimes in a photo the horizon is just a bit off but is totally noticeable. This technique can fix crooked subjects or horizons.

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How to Convert a Photo into a Sketch in Photoshop

How to Convert a Photo into a Sketch in Photoshop

This photoshop tutorial is to help you learn how to convert photos into good looking sketches. And then if you want to learn more we will show you how to make an inverse sketch.

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How to Create a Silhouette in Photoshop

How to Create a Silhouette in Photoshop

This tutorial is to help you learn how to create a silhouette from a photo that didn’t quite have the right exposure for it. For this photo, it was supposed to come out as a silhouette but it was a little too overexposed. But this technique will work well for any photo that has a bright light source in the background.

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How to Create a Sepia Toned Photo in Photoshop

How to Create a Sepia Toned Photo in Photoshop

This tutorial is to help you learn how to convert a regular color photo into a sepia toned photo. This can turn a dull photo into a more interesting artsy photo.

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How to Separate a Subject from the Background

How to Separate a Subject from the Background

This tutorial is to help you learn how to separate a subject or object from it’s surroundings in order to create more serious effects without including the isolated subject.

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How to Retouch and Edit Landscape Photos

How to Retouch and Edit Landscape Photos

This tutorial is to help you learn how to adjust landscape photos to bring out the detail of the background and horizon. Much of the time a digital camera will bring out the colors more in the foreground, but with this tutorial you can learn how to emphasize the whole scene.

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