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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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If you want to show your pictures to the world, you could update them into photography community such as deviantart.com or flickr.com. But, if what you want is a stronger personality and the chance to customize your on-line photo gallery, read forward about the VisualServer for Artists (an on-line, fee-based website hosting and content management [...]

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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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. All pictures are [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]