digg_url = ‘http://www.photoaxe.com/creating-a-photo-slideshow/’; Before Easter I promised I’ll show you how to easily make a photo slideshow with music and effects. Flash Slide Show Maker has very intuitive (and large) buttons; therefore, you can create a slideshow like the one above in very easy and fast way. Here’s a sample slideshow you should first see. [...]

digg_url = ‘http://www.photoaxe.com/3-simple-solutions-for-shooting-against-the-light-in-photography-that-work/’; Shooting against the light has always been a tricky thing in photography: if you choose to set a longer exposure or just to increase the exposure compensation in order to have plenty of light over the near subject, the background will appear burned (overexposed). The other way around, if you choose the [...]

Neat Image is a noise reduction plug-in (plugin for Photoshop) and standalone application designed to reduce visible noise and grain in photographic images. Neat Image is indispensable in low-light (indoors, night, astro) and high-speed (sport, action) photography. Neat Image has 4 tabs right under the menu: Image Imput, Device Noise Profile, Noise Filter Settings, Output. [...]

Now that you know what RAW is, let’s see some adjustments over a .nef file. Picasa is a free software from Google which I found useful and helpful in many photographic situations, but when it comes to RAW editing, it’s very basic. If you take a look at the first image down here, you’ll see [...]

If understanding RAW is still difficult after what I said before, take a look at the following images from photo.net. The 3 most known RAW formats are CRW, CR2, NEF, and DNG. A few words on them: The Canon RAW (CRW, CR2) File Format Canon uses two different RAW formats, and some camera models produce [...]

RAW images contain unprocessed image data straight from the camera’s image sensor. Since the data isn’t processed on the camera you must do it yourself on your computer in order to get it into more usable formats like TIFF or JPEG. .raf (Fuji) .crw .cr2 (Canon) .kdc .dcr (Kodak) .mrw (Minolta) .nef (Nikon) .orf (Olympus) [...]