I decided to accept the challenge proposed by Brian Auer in “Edit my Photo” Project.
Here are the original image and the final image:

Step 1: Croping
By looking at the image you see that it is basically right composed, but, the subject needs to be closer to the viewer of the frame. Therefore, I need to crop [...]

If you just want to make your pictures better, prepare them to sell as stock or print them without reading tutorials or books, just look at this short video and you’ll get to know the most basic secrets of photo editing with Adobe Photoshop.

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Adobe Photoshop CS3 includes a black & white feature that transforms the colored picture into pretty realistic infrared black and white image.
From the Menu Image -> Adjustments -> Black & White (or Alt+Ctrl+Shift+B). In the Black & White Tab select Infrared. Now you can decrease the RED channel even more (and increase the [...]

The Tips: Use a tripod, use the higher resolution and pay attention at the lighting in order to make this trick as real as possible.
Even if this video is about cloning a person, the clone tool (combined with the healing tool) is very useful to photographers for more down-to-earth problems such as removing unwanted objects [...]

PicMe service (created by Raizlabs Corporation) is another way of sharing up to 200 photos free or 5000 photos at a prize of 9.95/year or 15000 for 29.95USD/Year.
Besides of working with Flickr, Facebook and more, PicMe is the first of its kind to integrate photo sharing with a rich and interactive 3-D desktop experience.

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There are many programs that stitch together more photos to obtain a panoramic picture, but from all those, I use Photostitch that came with my Canon digicam.
The Photostitch Launcher offers the possibility to merge the images or to view and print merged images. The Viewer program impressed me with the 360 panoramas: it goes round [...]

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Most of the photo editing Software have a function called “Invert” or “Invert Colors”. This function, sometimes combined with the chage of “Hue”, gives the image irrealistic colors. By inversion of colors, all dark colors become lighten and all light colors become darker; warm colors become cold colors and vice-versa. The green usualy [...]

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Sometimes it’s really amazing how a bad picture can turn into an “ok picture” by following the steps bellow. But don’t really expect miracles, because what really makes a picture outstanding is the subject and the creative idea it transmits. First let’s look at some examples and after that I will show you [...]

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In Black & White Photography, the shapes, the structures and the contrast gain importance.
You can shoot directly in BW on most of the digital cameras, and some of them (Canon EOS) even come with some software filters to control the contrast (red, orange, yellow). The disadvantage of shooting BW is that you can [...]

After the JPEG compression of the camera, some images have a leak of contrast. Adobe Photoshop comes with 2 useful possibilities to increase the contrast: “Brightness and Contrast” and “Curves”. Also, there is a very basic “Auto Contrast” function which works in very few cases. “Brightness and Contrast” should be avoided because if often alters [...]