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Article By Mike Singh. A minimally adequate semi-tutorial on one way to resize your image files before “sharing” them (sending by email, viewing on a website, etc.) with others.

Here’s my tip: For online viewing, I don’t even bother with all that “resolution” mumbo-jumbo. I just deal with pixel dimensions.

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Article by Kathy Burns-Millyard. In this, Ms. Burns-Millyard gives you a very simple primer on extreme closeup photography with your digital camera. Not much technical meat here… definitely written for wide-eyed beginners.

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Article by Rohn Engh. Another good stock photography business article from Mr. Engh. In this one, some excellent tips on which photos sell (and which don’t). Learn some important pointers, such as the principle of ”supply and demand,” and the realization that your workhorse images aren’t necessarily going to win photo contests.

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Occasionally, I’ll be posting these shopping alerts to give you a heads up on some worthwhile deals I get wind of.

Online specialty retailer Batteries.com has told me that it will take 20% off your entire order and give you a free 8-pack of its AA batteries if you use the following coupon code as you complete your purchase:

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BY: (JJ Wade)
SOURCE: Flickr

JJ Wade’s from San Francisco and works in entertainment technology, but he says that in his free time, he’s an “[o]bsessed amateur photographer.” Well, Mr. Wade, with results like this, do please stay obsessed. Gorgeous shot!

Click here to see this image on Flickr. Scroll down for technical details.

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Article by Andrea Ghilardelli. You’ve probably heard of HDRI (or HDR). No? Bet you’ve seen the images though. Hard to miss… the pics are so striking, seeing one’s like taking a baseball bat to the head.

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Article by Morgan Hamilton. Thinking about doing some black & white photography? Considering how dirt easy it is to do nowadays with digital cameras, why not? Even if you’ve got a humble point-and-shoot without a “black-and-white” or “monochrome” mode, who cares? Snap away, and post process the images after with Photoshop (or any of the other programs available, some even free, like those listed in our Tools section).

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Article by Kristine Knight. Lots of competition out there nowadays among professional photo printing services. How to choose? Quality’s a given, of course, so we’re not even going to bother discussing that.

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Article by Ziv Haparnas. Good primer on depth of field (DOF) and the different factors that affect and control it. Most interesting: Did you know your digital camera’s sensor (CCD) size affects depth of field? No? Read the article.

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It’s hard to beat free.

Especially when the freebie does a bang up do-alike imitation of Photoshop Elements’ functionalities!

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