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Using the Shadows/Highlights adjustment in Photoshop CS4. This adjustment is available in earlier versions as well.

Join world renown photographer Yuri Arcurs on a photo shoot - learn about how to choose, instruct and shoot your models and much more!

Smart Objects are just that, but how, when and why would you want to use them?

Canon Inc. announced today the development of Hybrid Image Stabilizer (IS), the world’s first* optical Image Stabilizer which compensates for both angular camera shake and shift camera shake. The technology will be incorporated in an interchangeable single lens reflex (SLR) camera lens planned for commercial release before the end of 2009.
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Using manual flash with your DSLR. Part one Hardware. Radio triggers, flashes, optical triggers, sync voltage, hot shoe adapters, and more.

Adding Fireworks to a Digital Photo with PhotoShop

One of the great new improvements of Auto-Blend Layers in Photoshop CS4 is that you can now take a range of shots with different points of focus and Photoshop will composite them together with amazingly precise layer masks to give you a single image where everything is in focus.

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Open the image that you want to work with and also open any image of a sunset.

Choose Image>Adjustments>Match Color

The Match Color dialog box will open.  We will only need to use 2 settings for the task at hand.
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How to use and understand the warp tool morphing and tweaking parts of an image.

" Each of the ads featured a surreal representation of a different region of Colombia and was created by compositing various stock images and photos Richard shot for the job. The challenge with this one was to wrap an accordion around the palm tree like a giant snake.

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The Photoshop curves tool is perhaps the most powerful and flexible image transformation, yet it may also be one of the most intimidating.  Since photographers effectively paint with light, curves is central to their practice because it affects light's two primary influences: tones and contrast.  Tonal curves are also what give different film types their unique character, so understanding how they work allows one to mimic any film-- without ever having to retake the photograph.

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The trick with local contrast enhancement is that it increases "local" contrast in smaller regions, while at the same time preventing an increase in "global" contrast-- thereby protecting large-scale shadow/highlight detail.  It achieves this feat by making some pixels in the histogram cross over each other, which is not possible when enhancing contrast using levels or curves.
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Kerry Garrison from CameraDojo.com demonstrates how to use a light meter to get good exposures during a quick product shoot.