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Manfrotto 468MGRC0 Hydrostatic Ball Head

Despite the claims of some photography pundits, you certainly do need a stable shooting platform for your camera in many situations. OIS, IS and VR can't help you when shutter speeds drop to seconds.

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Canon PowerShot G9 Digital Camera

As good camera designs get better and the market leaders — Canon and Nikon mainly — vie for top spot, consumers, hobbyists, amateurs and professional photographers benefit from the competition. Is there a G9 in your future?

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Canon PowerShot A650 IS Digital Compact Camera

Canon keeps coming up with terrific little cameras which exceed our expectations. Looking for a digital compact camera packed with value, usability and image quality? Consider looking at Canon first.

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TrueGrain v1.1

There is an increasingly steady turn away from film and film effects of all types in favor of a completely digital look and feel. Emulation of classic film grain, a hallmark of so much great film over the years, has some interesting uses.

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The Adobe Photoshop Layers Book

With apologies to veteran Photoshop users who spend lots of time in the Channels palette, the Photoshop Layers features and functions are the most powerful photo editing controls available today. A serious Photoshop layers book is always welcome.

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Nikon Coolpix P50 Digital Camera

Point & Shoot cameras come and go with the seasons. The problem is, some consumers have limited budgets. What's needed is a sturdy little camera that has some staying power in the form of rich, accurate color, a sharp lens, and lots of features.

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Photography & Video Shoulder Bags, Sling Packs, Backpacks, Waist Belt Systems and Rolling Bags - 2008 Product Roundup

We rounded up samples, talked to users, shopped and reviewed models from 30 makers. There are a lot of good designs to choose from. Find the bag that fits your needs.

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Plustek OpticFilm 7300 Film Scanner

It doesn't matter how dedicated you've become to digital photography. There's still a great storehouse of photos on slides and negatives sitting in a closet, calling out to you. Those old photos aren't suddenly unworthy simply because they're not digital.

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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom v1.3

Professional photographers and serious amateurs need robust, easy to use software which eases workflow while at the same time providing powerful and intuitively easy to use editing tools, content management and high quality output. Adobe has answered the call.

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Nikon D300 Digital SLR Camera

Great companies stay at or near the top of the mountain by relentlessly and creatively pursuing the improvement of their core products. Focus, focus, focus. Nikon exemplifies this by periodically designing and manufacturing some of the best cameras in the world.

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Manfrotto 190XPROB Tripod

It's great to have the latest SLR camera and lens, but Pro or not, you'd also better have a reliable, versatile tripod

RAW Workflow from Capture to Archives

Digital photographers grappling with huge volumes of RAW files have to get into the habit of using an efficient workflow

Sunday, January 14, 2007

Around the Web, 14th January 2007

In this first posting of a regular feature, in which we hope to share some of the interesting and inspirational content we come across in our regular forays for creative and digital imaging info on the web, and which will hopefully be of interest to readers of this blog.

DOP Interview John Sexton
DOP have posted their first ever audio interview. Uwe and Bettina interview master B&W photographer and printer John Sexton, in what proves to be a fascinating session. Visit DOP for the podcast.

To Delete, or Not: A Thread Worth Reading
Josh Hawkins, Carl Weese and Dave New have all written their own takes on what they think of the habit many digital photographers have in deleting photos they have taken. The Posts can all be found over at the very popular The Online Photographer blog. Well worth the read.

Marting Evening on Cloning in Photoshop CS3
Over at PhotoshopNews.com, Martin has written a piece on the new Clone Source palette in the Photoshop CS3 beta. Basically you can now clone and heal more precisely by using a translucent overlay of your source pixels. These sources can also be modified on the fly using the keyboard shortcuts I came across in the article and at the John Nack on Adobe blog:

Opt/Alt + Shift temporarily shows the clone overlay, plus it lets you drag it around and 'tack' it down at the desired location.
Opt/Alt + Shift + the arrow keys nudges the overlay up, down and side to side.
Opt/Alt + Shift + [ or ] rotate the source
Opt/Alt + Shift + <> scale the source

Also, to adjust rotation, position, or scale, you can also use "scrubby sliders": hover over the label on each field (H, W, etc.), then drag left or right.

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