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Functions:
• Shooting Modes: Auto, Natural Light, Natural Light & with Flash, M (Manuial), Movie
• Scene Modes: Portrait, Portrait Enhancer, Landscape, Sport, Night, Fireworks, Sunset, Snow, Beach, Underwater, Museum, Party, Flower, Text
• Movie Mode: 640×480 pixels / 320×240 pixels (30 frames/sec.) with monaural sound
• Playback: Face Detection (with Red-eye removal), Slide show, Trimming, Single frame, Multi-frame playback including Microthumbnail mode, [...]

Let’s take a look at how to add selective color to a black and white image using adjustment layers in Photoshop CS3.

In this first week of “photo critique” I received 2 wonderful images. Let’s see them.
Alexander Artemenko
Original Image

Technical Aspects
The image looks sharp, which is important from my point of view. White balance is good: the white is neither bluish nor yellowish. Everything is focused like a landscape should be. There are no overexposed areas, neither [...]

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• Shooting Modes: Auto, Manual, Natural Light, Natural Light& with Flash, Portrait, Landscape, Sport, Night, Auction, Sunset, Snow, Beach, Museum, Party, Flower, Text, Picture Stabilization, Successive Movie, Stamp
• Movie Mode: 640 x 480 pixels / 320 x 240 pixels (30 frames/sec.) With monaural sound
• Playback: Face Detection (with Red-eye removal), Slide show, Trimming, Single frame, Multi-frame playback including [...]

Functions:
• Shooting Modes: Auto, Program, Scene, Movie
• Scene Modes: 39 scenes
• Movie Mode: MOV format, H.264/AVC, IMA-ADPCM (monaural); 848 × 480 (UHQ Wide/HQ Wide), 640 × 480 (UHQ/HQ/Normal), 320 × 240 (LP)
• Effects: Date and Time, Calendar, World Time
• Flash Modes: Auto, Flash Off, Flash On, Soft Flash, Red Eye Reduction
• Focus Modes: Auto Focus, Macro Mode, Pan Focus, Infinity Mode, [...]

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• Shooting Modes: Auto, Easy Shooting, Program Auto, Movie, High Sensitivity, Twilight, Twilight Portrait, Soft Snap, Landscape, Beach, Snow, Fireworks, Smile Shutter, Underwater
• Movie Mode: MPEG VX Fine with Audio (640×480 at 30fps) (MPEG VX Fine requires Memory Stick DUO PRO™ media), MPEG VX Standard with Audio (640×480 at 16fps), 320 (QVGA, 320 x 240, Approx.8.3fps)
• Effects: Black [...]

Functions:
• Shooting Modes: Auto, Program, Scene, Movie
• Scene Modes: 39 scenes
• Movie Mode: MOV format, H.264/AVC, IMA-ADPCM (monaural); 848 × 480 (UHQ Wide/HQ Wide), 640 × 480 (UHQ/HQ/Normal), 320 × 240 (LP)
• Effects: Date and Time, Calendar, World Time
• Flash Modes: Auto, Flash Off, Flash On, Soft Flash, Red Eye Reduction
• Focus Modes: Auto Focus, Macro Mode, Pan Focus, Infinity Mode, [...]

Functions:
• Shooting Modes: Auto, Easy Shooting, Program Auto, Movie, High Sensitivity, Twilight, Twilight Portrait, Soft Snap, Landscape, Beach, Snow, Fireworks, Smile Shutter, Underwater
• Movie Mode: MPEG VX Fine with Audio (640×480 at 30fps) (MPEG VX Fine requires Memory Stick DUO PRO™ media), MPEG VX Standard with Audio (640×480 at 16fps), 320 (QVGA, 320 x 240, Approx.8.3fps)
• Effects: Black [...]

Sony Cyber-shot DSC-S750
• 2.5 inch LCD
• 7.2 megapixels
• 3x optical zoom + 2x digital zoom
• Focal Length: 5.8 to 17.4 mm
• Aperture: f2.8(W) - f4.8(T)
• Exposure Compensation: Plus / Minus 2.0EV, 1 / 3EV step
• File Format: JPEG: Normal, Burst
• 22MB internal Flash Memory, optional Memory Stick DUO Media, optional Memory Stick DUO PRO

Sony Cyber-shot DSC-S780
• 2.5 inch LCD
• 8.1 megapixels
• 3x optical zoom + [...]

Functions:
• Shooting Modes: Auto, Program, Movie, Scene, Manual
• Scene Modes: 36 scenes
• Movie Mode: 848 x 480 (UHQ Wide/HQ Wide, 30 fps), 640 × 480 (UHQ/HQ/Normal, 30 fps), 320 × 240 (LP, 15 fps); MOV format, H.264/AVC, AAC (monaural)
• Effects: Date and Time, Calendar, World Time
• Flash Modes: Auto, Flash Off, Flash On, Soft Flash, Red Eye Reduction
• Focus Modes: Auto [...]