This video tutorial is in the Arts & Crafts category which will show you how to create a floral antique photo stand. The photo stand can be used to place photos or picture cards and it also doubles up as a candle stand. A picture holder measures 4 1/2 inches from top of the ring to the top of the stand. But, you can have different length. Take a lid of a tin and drill a small hole in the center. Place a wire through the hole. Apply generous amount of glue on the outer side of the lid. Sprinkl...
Here is another cool photo manipulation you can do using Photoshop CS3. You can take a normal photo you’ve taken and really make it look unique by giving it harder edges and some more texture to the shot. Mix up your photos with this effect.
First thing you should do is invest in a reliable good quality digital camera. No, you do not have to spend big bucks on one. Kodak, Sony and Nikon make inexpensive digital cameras that are ready to be bought everyday. Make sure you find a camera that fits your needs.
See how to retouch a graduation portrait in Photoshop.
Create a larger, more sophisticated studio photography lighting setup but still use simple materials
Watch this Photo 101 podcast on how to do infrared photography.
By now you're probably already an expert at creating cover images for your Facebook Timeline, especially if you've taken advantage of those free Facebook cards that were (and still are) being offered. But just in case you need some help making eye-grabbing cover images, there's a few tools you can try out to streamline the process.
Try "unfocusing" your photographs for some dreamy, evocative and somewhat abstract takes on life. Check out the two tutorials (here and here) from Michelle Geoga of Lights! Camera! Photoshop! for tips on unleashing the blur-power of your camera. You can see plenty of example images there to help you out.
Create an effect in your video where the video footage is converted to black & white, pauses, and resumes playback in regular color. This effect is demonstrated by Aharon Rabinowitz with Spy Photo, a brand new set of free presets for Adobe After Effects.
In this clip, you'll learn how to use the Windows Photo Gallery app on a desktop or laptop computer running the MS Windows Vista operating system. For more information, including a complete demonstration of the process and detailed, step-by-step instructions, watch this home-computing how-to.
In this Computers & Programming video tutorial you will learn how to use Stock.Xchng to access free stock images. The site is at SXC. Go to this site and you will find a large number of stock images that are free to use. And every day new photos are being added. You can search for an image by category by clicking on the search box and scrolling down to find your category. You can also type in the search box to find a photo of your liking. The image also tells you what is the screen size, prin...
Why do passport photos and driver's license pictures always get a bad rep? Well, other than the lighting being atrocious and the photographers being underpaid civil servants, bad photos usually result from bad backgrounds.
Linking your social networking activity together has never been so easy. Randy Ksar shows us the simple process of linking your Facebook and Flickr accountstogether so you and your friends can view your them both easily without navigating from site to site. First, you should log into your Facebook page click on Profile, select settings and you should see Activity. All you need to do is simply click on the Flickr link and type your Flickr user account name and you're done. Note that your Flick...
Did you know that you can use the photo-editing software Photoshop to turn your photographs into drawings? Follow along with Bert Monroy of Pixel Perfect as he shows us exactly how you can do just that. You will have to upload a photo of your choice to your computer and then open it up with Photoshop. Then you can use the techniques shown in the video to make it look as though someone drew that same picture on a piece of paper. Bert also shows how you can saturate your drawing and make it col...
Epson sells many different digital imaging products, including ink jet printers and all-in-ones, digital photo printers, multimedia projectors for business, education, and home entertainment, scanners, digital photo viewers, professional imaging/wide format printers, and more. Check out this video to learn how useful and versatile your new Epson Artisan 810 all-in-one printer can be.
Watch this Epson video tutorial to learn how to automatically enhance digital pics with the Epson Artisan 810 All-in-One Printer.
When developing film for a black-and-white photo, first extract the leader of the film from the film canister and then pull out the rest of the film in total darkness. Develop a black and white photograph with the tips in this free instructional video on photography tips from a professional photographer. Good information for black and white photography students.
When choosing a camera lens, use a telephoto lens for a zoom or a wide-angle lens for a broader view, which allows photographers to fit more of a subject into a photo. Choose the right lens for a specific photo with the tips in this free instructional video on photography tips from a professional photographer. Lens are very expensive, so make sure you are educated before you buy a new camera lens.
Ever wanted to create your own picture slideshows? With Google Picasa, a free picute management application, you can. In this video tutorial, you'll learn to create a quick and easy slideshow from your photos using Google's Picasa. To get started, watch this video how-to!
Photo ornaments use a combination of applique fabric and stitches to create a great frame for pictures. This project is fast, fun, and made entirely in the embroidery hoop! This instructional embroidery video will take you through all the necessary steps - Soon you will be embroidering all of your Christmas ornaments!
Using Photoshop CS2, this software tutorial demonstrates how to help alleviate lighting problems via the Shadow/Highlight tool. No matter if you are touching up vacation photos or professional images, this Photoshop tutorial can help you adjust lighting problems.
This instructional photography video explains step-by-step the features of active D-Lighting: what it can do and how it affects your images. Active D-Lighting allows you to photograph in various lighting situations for more neutral contrast results. Here is a basic explanation of the settings on a professional Nikon photo camera:
This tutorial shows you how to integrate a 3D object into a photo or image using Blender software.
You don't need an elaborate camera to take stunning close-up photos. Watch this photography tutorial video to learn how to take nice close-ups with your Canon A550. You'll be able to take beautiful close-up photos with this camera after you've mastered the tips in this helpful how-to video.
Want to add still photos to your iMovie video project? Find out how you can feature your pictures in iMovie with this tutorial.
Learn how to get started in Photoshop Elements by importing digital photo files from your files and folders or off of CDs.
Learn to retouch your photos like the professionals do in this Photoshop tutorial.
What do professionals take on a photo shoot besides photo equipment? Find out by watching this video.
Managing Panoramas (henceforth known as panos) and HDR photos in Lightroom is an important step in making your life a lot easier if you like that type of photography. What happens after shooting a lot of either type of photography is that your library becomes really cluttered. As if the clutter wasn’t bad enough, it just becomes flat-out difficult to start processing these types of photos. So instead of ditching Lightroom when you shoot at pano or HDR set, check out this week’s video and give...
Here’s a video on how to process your panos in Lightroom. Learn how to take those raw files and process them with a panorama in mind (it’s really a lot like processing a regular photo with just a small change at the end). We’ll process them in Lightroom and then take it through the Photomerge feature in Photoshop to finish things off.
Hack a car photo to be a really awesome decorative object for your home or office at a very low cost. It's also really fun to make! All it takes is a few LED lights and a 9V battery.
This tutorial will show you how to match colors between 2 photos or more, so you can perfectly blend the images together.
See how to use Chromakey to enhance your videos and photos. Chromakey is the process of removing one color and replacing it with another but it most often refers to removing green screen or blue screen backgrounds and replacing them with composited videos or images. This lesson uses Pinnacle software for the final video editing, but any editing software can be used - it's more about the principles of the process and setting up the cameras that you'll learn from this video.
How to use Roundpic.com to put rounded corners on any digital photo or image on your computer.
The GNU Image Manipulation Program, or GIMP, is a raster graphics editor application with some support for vector graphics. This video teaches you how to use the GIMP photo editor to edit a series of photos via layering. Learn to put a sumo wrestler over a bridge!
If you are not a professional photographer, very often you will find your photos have bad lighting. In this Photoshop tutorial you will learn to adjust and improve the lighting in your portrait photographs. Learn also to use the history brush to undo effects that you don't want.
You've found the perfect photo for your presentation but the background is the wrong color or worse, a cheesy image. Well, if you're creating your presentation in Keynote '08, you can just remove the unwanted background using the alpha tool! See how in this tutorial from Apple.
iDVD '08 has the ability to create DVD slideshows of your photos. This is a great way to show family and friends your vacation photos or other events, without using the web. Just create your slideshow DVD and pop it in the DVD player. See how to make one in this tutorial.
Adobe GoLive CS2 has a complete Quicktime editor built right in. In this video Terry White will show you how to use it to create a photo slideshow movie from scratch using some of your existing photos. After the movie is created you can add it to any of your pages and you can even have the movie point to different URLs as the movie plays.
Transform your static photos and images into an entertaining show with the slideshow feature in Microsoft's Windows Movie Maker.There are many transitions and effects you could use for your photo slideshow to make it more interesting and fun.
