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Create a Home Inventory

Creating a home inventory and storing it in a safe place will make it easier to work with the insurance company at a time of loss. A home inventory can make dealing with an insurance company much easier. And your camera phone is a convenient way to cre... Read >

Transfer Images via Email

Wireless photo transfer is one of the great advantages of camera phones. These tips will have you filling up your friends' phone mailboxes in short order. Email might be the simplest way to get a photograph from your phone to somewhere else. It doesn't... Read >

Intelligent Auto Color Correction

Photoshop CS includes a helpful Auto Color function. The problem is that it needs to be calibrated. Here's a calibration how-to that reveals the secret to fast color correction. Our everyday world is a mishmash of lighting. We read at home by tungsten ... Read >

Brighten Teeth

It seems like everyone wants whiter teeth these days. You might not have the time for peroxide-based solutions, but there's no need for such drastic measures anyway.This Photoshop hack takes only a few seconds and instantly removes years of stains. Mos... Read >

Power-Line Vanishing Trick

The Clone Stamp in Photoshop Elements is a pretty good tool for removing unsightly wires from your scenes. Photoshop 7 and CS have an amazing piece of magic called the Patch tool. Either way, wires be gone! Wires, wires, everywhere wires. Most folks mi... Read >

Match Resolution to Output

Image resolution remains one of the great mysteries to hobbyist photographers; there's one setting for computer viewing and another for print output. Here's how it works. I can't resist starting this chapter with an anecdote. Usually, I wouldn't, but ... Read >

Digicam Movie Editing Made Easy

Almost all point-and-shoot digicams capture video footage in addition to still photos. But how do you turn those short snippets into your own personal movie? If it comes down to a choice between bringing along a camcorder or a digital camera, I'm going... Read >

Amazing B&W Prints from Your Inkjet Printer

For a couple hundred bucks you can convert your Epson or Canon printer into a high-end black-and-white darkroom. Digital photography is based on a long history of techniques and tricks hammered out over a hundred years of film photography. The metaphors u... Read >

Freeze Action with Electronic Flash

The hand is quicker than the eye, and your electronic flash is faster than your shutter. Use it to stop time and capture that magic moment. The shutter on your camera can reach speeds of 1/2000 of a second or faster. The faster the shutter speed, the e... Read >

Add External Flash to Point and Shoots

Just because your digital point and shoot has a built-in flash, that doesn't mean you're stuck with using it exclusively. "When two people in an organization always agree, one of them is unnecessary." You might expect to find that quote cross-stitched ... Read >

Photography tricks: Prevent Red Eye

The plague of point-and-shoot flash photography, red eye, can turn your children into demons and your pets into monsters. Here's how to exorcise this curse from your life. Red eye is caused by one of those laws of physics that's difficult for point-and... Read >

Photography: Outdoor Fill Flash

Working with your camera's flash can be counterintuitive. Often, you'll capture more compelling indoor pictures when you turn off the flash, and get great shots when you activate it outdoors? Quite the opposite of what you'd expect. In fact, I'd go so ... Read >

Colorful Star Trails

For most people, stars are decorative points of light that decorate the night sky. But for you, they can also be fascinating streaks of light that add dazzle to your compositions. Stars might appear as twinkling points of light to the naked eye, but w... Read >

Night Landscapes and the Moon

The moon is a beautiful but often elusive element for nighttime landscapes. If your previous attempts have resulted in sheer lunacy, take a look at these helpful tips. Nothing perks up an evening landscape like a rising moon hanging above the horizon. ... Read >

Fireworks Photography

Don't let any smoke get in your eyes for this assignment. Stand upwind, bring your tripod, and capture some truly spectacular images. Big fireworks shows are thrilling to watch and they make thrilling photo subjects. Because it's night photography, you... Read >