Canon 50D From Snapshots to Great Shots – Book Review


Photographer and author Jeff Revell takes a slightly different approach in his book, Canon 50D: From Snapshots to Great Shots. Instead of simply rewriting and expanding on what the camera’s manual says, Revell’s book focuses on how to take great photos by using selected camera features and functions of the Canon 50D.

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Four Photoshop CS4 Books Reviewed


I’ve read and used at least a dozen or so Photoshop books in the last four years. With each new Photoshop of CS update, the manual styled books for the application grow larger and better. Figuring out which books will be mot useful for you largely depends on your experience and skills with the application, your learning style, and what you want to learn. Check out this review of four different Adobe Photoshop CS4 books.

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5 More Mail Rules

Last August, I posted five Apple Mail rules that some readers found useful. Here are some more rules you might try. You of course,

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Jazzy Smart Playlists

I’m always looking for ways to spruce up my smart playlists in iTunes. Since jazz is my most listened to music, I thought I’d

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Connecting iPhone to iTunes

SimplifyMedia has just released its iPhone and iPod touch version of its internet music sharing application, which can be downloaded for free by the

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From Canon XSi to Photoshop CS3 Accelerated – Three Book Reviews


It’s difficult for a mere book reviewer like myself to understand how publishers and book writers can keep up with the frequent updates in digital software and hardware. Just when you purchase a Canon camera or the latest update of Photoshop, new versions of these products come out in less than a year’s time. It seems like writers and publishers have to scramble to keep up with the ever expanding technology. But somehow they get the job done, and in most cases very well.

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Layers: the Complete Guide to Photoshop’s Most Powerful Feature
Review


Well, Photoshop guru Matt Kloskowski has written a concise introductory guide about using layers, the heart of Photoshop Elements and Photoshop CS series. His book is appropriately titled, Layers: the Complete Guide to Photoshop’s Most Powerful Feature. For this book, Matt incorporates Scott Kelby’s trade mark style of explaining Photoshop layer features and techniques in a well illustrated, step by step process. Each lesson is explained in less than five pages with no more than two paragraphs per page.

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Light & Exposure for Digital Photographers
Review


What is traditionally called point-and-shoot cameras are extremely popular, and affordable and for the most part they produce really good photos. But if you’re serious about photography, at some point you’ll have to get beyond the automatic exposure settings of your camera and learn about the marriage between light and exposure and how to use the features of your camera to make that marriage work.

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Epson RX680 Photo All-in-One Printer – Review


Because the RX680 is an all-in-one printer, it comes, of course, with probably more features than most people might use. In addition to the double-sided printing, other features include… read review here.

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Two Digital Photography Books Reviewed


With so many people shooting with digital cameras these days, and discovering and renewing their interest in photography, it’s great to see publishers like Rocynook producing a such a fine line of books on the subject.

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iPod Touch Gets Upgraded

Well, I finally arrived here at Macworld this morning, minutes after the Stevenote, I immediately hit the floor after touching basis my man, John

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The Digital Photography Experience

Though Apple hasnt’ re-introduced a digital camera since it’s short lived QuickTake camera back in 1994, this year’s Macworld Conference introduced what it calls

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MacBook Air

Though I doubt I’ll be getting Apple’s latest computer, MacBook Air, it was nice to get my hands on it and check it out.

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