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Photoshop Experts Try Their Hand at Photoshop 1.0

Photoshop Experts Try Their Hand at Photoshop 1.0

Photoshop 1.0, which was released February 19, 1990, definitely lacked many of the features photographers and designers rely on today. Of course, that’s to be expected, but it’s kind of surprising how little functionality it had compared to the Photoshop of today. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Adobe Photoshop, eight experts were asked to […]

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How to Change Eye Color in Photoshop

How to Change Eye Color in Photoshop

You don’t need to buy colored contact lenses to transform your subject’s eye color into a mutant fire-eyed monster… or simply a blue-eyed beauty. Aaron Nace shows us how to achieve this transformation in Photoshop and make realistic adjustments to an eye or even make a crazy fantasy eye. Watch to see how he uses a group of layer […]

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Tools for the Traveling Photographer

Tools for the Traveling Photographer

When you’re on the road or overseas, there are things you want in your gear bag that you might not need to drag around with you when you’re close to home. Besides a backup camera or spare camera body, there are a few tools that have saved a shoot for me on more than one […]

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Interview with a Volvo Ocean Race Onboard Photographer

Interview with a Volvo Ocean Race Onboard Photographer

The Volvo Ocean Race is an adventure photographer’s dream; it’s a thrilling around-the-world sailing race starting in Alicante, Spain, and ending in Gothenburg, Sweden, nine months later. To thoroughly document the October 2014–June 2015 event, the race includes an Onboard Reporter (OBR) for each boat. More than 2,500 multimedia reporters and adventure photographers vied for […]

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Extreme Shadow Recovery Trick in Lightroom

Extreme Shadow Recovery Trick in Lightroom

Sometimes a photograph needs extreme shadow recovery, and Lightroom 5’s shadow slider just doesn’t cut it. Lightroom 4’s old fill light slider can be way more powerful, but how do we get it back? Matt Kloskowski from onOne shows us how to recover details in the shadows using the old process version of Lightroom and […]

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How to Create Gravity-Defying Photos Without Photoshop

How to Create Gravity-Defying Photos Without Photoshop

You can flip the world on its edge in your photos without superhuman abilities. Paul Grogan of N-Photo gives us a couple of quick tips to make gravity-defying photographs almost anywhere. Grab some creative and willing subjects and check out how he did it in this video: Find a Location Find a location that could realistically […]

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Photographer has Close Encounter with Lion

Photographer has Close Encounter with Lion

There are some photographers out there who don’t mind taking risks to get an amazing shot. But even they may not realize just how much at risk they are until the moment for potential danger arises. Take for example, nature photographer Graham Springer who recently came in very close contact with his subject, a 300 […]

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How to Make a Digital Camera

How to Make a Digital Camera

Canon has stayed at the forefront of camera manufacturing for over 7 decades. They attribute that success in part to their dedication to cutting edge technology and maintaining high standards of quality. In the following video you can take a behind the scenes tour of how Canon produces their photography equipment from the inception of […]

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Infrared Photography: Tips on How to Get Started Part 2

Infrared Photography: Tips on How to Get Started Part 2

Now is maybe a good time to explain some of the thinking behind the way in which I tackled my own IR camera project. By no means does this mean that you should be doing the same or even that you should agree with my logic. The following paragraphs may however go some way toward […]

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Becoming a Photojournalist

Becoming a Photojournalist

It’s easy to take photojournalist for granted. They are out there on the frontlines with the police, firefighters, victims and heroes, yet they are rarely seen by the masses and are interviewed even less. In a mini-documentary, Dan Perez de la Garza, changes that as he interviews a group of photojounalists, including a Pulitzer Prize winner. […]

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