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Have You Created Fantasy Portraits?

Now that the Christmas shopping season is officially underway, it’s time to start thinking about gifts to give family and friends. What better way for an avid shutterbug to make the most of his picture-taking talents than to create photo gifts to give out in the coming weeks? I’m over photo books and the plethora of other boring photo gift ideas, including totes, magnets, mouse pads and t-shirts. This year I am toying with the idea of creating my own fantasy portraits and giving them out as gifts. Fantasy portraits, magic portraits, prop portraits; they are referred to by several … Continue reading →

High-Tech Photo Tools

High-tech tools are making it harder and harder to miss photo opps. Today, you can find smartphones that are equipped with the same mechanics featured in upscale digital cameras. BlackBerry, iPhone, Palm Pre and HTC Touch, are just a few handheld gadgets that allow people to keep in touch with family and friends and shoot incredible photos at the same time. However, these high-tech devices aren’t the only inventions created to aid shutterbugs. Free photo organization and editing tools are also part of the package, including: Photo Session: Recently, Flickr unveiled a social image-sharing app called Photo Session. The app … Continue reading →

The Magic of Editing

Can you tell that I edited this picture? If you shoot with a digital camera, then you know that it is nearly impossible to take a picture that can’t be fixed. Photo-editing software has made it possible to turn boring images into frame worthy works of art. Photo-editing software is vital when you are trying to make adjustments to your subjects after a picture-taking session is over. Most post-production photo programs allow you to whiten your subject’s teeth or eliminate blemishes with the click of a mouse. Simply, de-saturate the unflattering areas to take out the color, and then whiten … Continue reading →

Editing Like a Pro

If you can’t shoot like a professional, then at least you can try to edit like one. I strongly maintain that with the litany of advanced digital cameras available on the market today, it is nearly impossible to shoot a bad photo. However, it can still happen. That’s where editing skills come in handy. As with anything in life, when it comes to photo editing, practice makes perfect. Of course, having decent photo editing software is also important, but how do you choose the perfect program? Some editing tools can set you back hundreds of dollars, while others allow you … Continue reading →

The Power of Photo Editing

Remember when you would snap a picture with your camera and pray that the shot turned out? These days the evolution of digital photography has made it virtually impossible to take a bad picture. Gone are the days when you’d take a roll of film into a developer and hope for the best. Back then if your photos were washed out, blurry or framed incorrectly, you just dealt with it and tried to improve your picture-taking skills to avoid future mistakes. Not any more. Today, even the worst photo can be edited to look as if it were professionally shot. … Continue reading →

Photo Editing Made Easy

If you shoot with a digital camera you might agree that it is nearly impossible to end up with a bad print. Photo editing can turn even the most oddly framed photo into a visual masterpiece. In addition, the technology can do wonders to compensate for poor lighting. If you tend to take pictures that need a few minor adjustments to make them print worthy, photo editing is key. The simplest way to improving your digital photographs (without enrolling in a photography class) is to edit them with easy-to-use software. For example, Google’s Picasa is one of the most popular … Continue reading →

More Tips for Picking a Photo-Sharing Site

In my last blog I told you about the task I have of organizing and sharing the hundreds of photos that were snapped at my daughter’s recent birthday party. With summer in full swing I’m sure many of you are dealing with similar situations. Whether you are drowning in wedding pictures, graduation photos or shots from your family reunion now might be the time to seriously consider choosing a photo-sharing website to preserve, organize and share your images with the world. I gave you some starter tips on choosing the best photo-sharing site in my previous blog and here now … Continue reading →

Picking a Photo-Sharing Site

My daughter’s last birthday party was attended by dozens of family members and friends. The “Lilo & Stitch”/Hawaiian theme was a huge hit and I took more pictures than I could possibly, scrapbook, frame or file. On top of the shots I took my brothers, friends and other family members also snapped dozens and dozens of other photos with their own cameras and cellphones. A month after the party I was swimming in birthday pictures. Enter the photo-sharing website. If you have hundreds of pictures you want to preserve, organize and share with the world I highly suggest finding a … Continue reading →

Are You Sharing Your Pictures?

And I’m not talking about passing your camera around so friends can view your favorite pics on your 2-inch LCD screen. When was the last time you actually took the time to print your most cherished shots or at the very least email them to family members? Printing pictures has become as easy as sitting your camera on top of a printer and pressing a button. It’s a simple task, but you might be surprised by the number of shutterbugs who allow their shots to sit in their cameras for months on end. With summer fast approaching and snap happy … Continue reading →

More Tips on How To Fix Your Pics at Home—The Dreaded Group Shot

For the past few days I have been detailing the high-tech wizardry available to photographers who may not always get that prize-winning shot in the heat of the moment. Once you familiarize yourself with the myriad of affordable desktop photo software programs out there that allow you to edit your pictures from the comfort of your own home, I guarantee you will look at photography in a whole new light. The high tech tools will work on just about any photo, even ones you took years ago. In previous blogs I detailed programs, which deal with fixings problems such as … Continue reading →