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The world has gone digital crazy. With many homes having multiple digital camera owners you can’t move without seeing someone taking a digital snap. And the operative word here is a snapshot. Not much thought, creativity or photographic composition. Just lots and lots of digital pollution cramming the millions of hard drives, DVDs and memory cards. Digital has enabled people to take more low quality, thoughtless snapshots. Digital photography could see the death of creativity in photography in general. Why such a harsh statement? Here’s why:

1. Lack of thought.

As a film photographer the consumable costs of photography were much higher. This forced us to think and carefully consider each shot. There was a greater thought process. Using a motor drive for taking multiple shots was for the press photographers who could afford take thirty six images in a few seconds. For the rest of us we had to think more before pressing the button.

2. The Shakespeare effect.

This is the evolutionary idea that if you give a roomful of monkeys a typewriter each and enough time, they will eventually produce a work equal in quality to Shakespeare. There is a similar mindset among digital photographers that if they shoot enough photos, somewhere amongst the thousands will be quality images. You have as much chance as that happening as a monkey.  Read more... (619 words, estimated 2:29 mins reading time)

Today, the art of photography is now very easy to master thanks to the power of the computer and digital camera technology. And, there are also photo editing software programs that can help in making your ordinary looking photos into professional looking ones. One software program that is very popular among photography enthusiasts and professional photographers is Adobe Photoshop.

So, what’s with Adobe Photoshop that it even made professional photographers want one of their own? Well, basically, the great thing about Adobe Photoshop is that this software contains everything that a photographer needs in order to edit pictures. This software is basically a digital photo laboratory where you can edit pictures to make it look even better.

The basics of the software are easy to pick up. However, it can be somewhat a mystery for first time users of Adobe Photoshop because of its unintuitive interface and lack of simple tutorials. If there is a simple tutorial included that will be able to teach the user the different interface of Photoshop, then this will definitely be a software program that everyone can easily understand.  Read more... (555 words, estimated 2:13 mins reading time)

Photos that hold your attention speak for themselves. Taking photos that capture the viewer’s imagination and hold their eye will make you famous. In today’s market most photographers use digital cameras. It is easier to use and provides instant gratification. Whether you are a beginner or a professional, Adobe Photoshop may be the digital photo editing software program for you.

Adobe Photoshop is a digital image editing program that is used to fix or enhance digital photographs. With Photoshop you have the ability to touch up existing photos (remove red eye, etc.) and give them a professional appeal.

Photoshop has been used for many years by photographers’ who wish to enhance, edit, restore, and touch up dull looking photographs and turn them in to something elegant looking with vividly sharp colors that would be good enough to publish in magazines and newspapers.

With digital image editing software you don’t even need to be a “professional” photographer to produce high quality photographs. You don’t need to know about shutter speeds, film speeds, exposure compensation, white balance, and other photography jargons. All you need to be able to do is point your camera, shoot the photograph, upload it to your computer, and print it out. You don’t even need to have an expensive SLR camera to take quality pictures. With a regular digital camera, and Adobe Photoshop installed in to your computer, you can easily produce high quality photos. The great thing about this software is that it will allow you to correct color saturation, light balance, and exposure compensation after you take the pictures.  Read more... (565 words, estimated 2:16 mins reading time)