Beginner Tips

Beginner Tips

Essential Guide to Digital Photography

Today, MakeUseOf.com published Essential Guide to Digital Photography

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Feature Tips for Aperture 3.0

Feature Tips for Aperture 3.0

This is part 1 for showing a few of the 200 new features in Aperture 3.0. You will get a better view of this video on YouTube in HD mode. Read more…

My Monochrome Preset for Aperture 2.0

There are are severl dozens of ways to do black and white conversions in various image editing programs. Entire books are devoted to the subject. But when I’m working in a Aperture 2.0, I start with the two basic settings described below. Read more…

10 Tips for Using Aperture 2.0

These are set of tips for beginner users of Aperture 2.0:

1. Show/Hide Inspector Using Menubar

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10 Flickr Groups For Serious Shutterbugs

If you’re a serious shutterbug, there are few places on the Internet better than Flickr for sharing photos and discussing all aspects of digital photography.

Flickr offers both free and paid subscriptions, and after you open your account and start building your own photostream, you’ll want to sign up for several of the tens of thousands of groups on the popular photo sharing site. Read more…

What is Your Digital Photography Workflow?

When you begin getting serious about digital photography, you’ll eventually discover that you perform similar steps when processing your photos in applications like iPhoto, Aperture, or Photoshop. The steps you take to process your images is called a workflow. Read more…

Aperture 2.0 Cheat Sheet

If you’re an avid Aperture 2.0 user, but you sometimes a have a hard time remembering all those shortcut keystrokes, well check out and download an Aperture 2.0 Cheat Sheet from 20seven.org Really nicely well done.

Should I Upgrade To A 35mm Camera?

“Should I upgrade to full SLR?” I see this type of question often in digital photography forums, and it is indeed a good one.

First off I would say that everyone or every family should own at least one compact or point-and-shoot camera simply because they’re small enough to take almost anywhere. Even a good camera phone can be useful for a pretty good carry-around image capturing device. I would hate to miss a great photo opportunity simply because I didn’t have a camera with me. So by all means, get or keep your compact or point-and-shoot camera, preferably in your car, purse, or pocket whenever you’re out and about. Read more…