Take Free Online Photography Classes Thanks to HP

It's not every day geeksugar comes across something that is no-strings-attached free! And the best part is that this freebie will actually teach you something — tech related!

If you want to brush up on your digital photography skills, Hewlett Packard is offering free HP online classes on a variety of topics such as basic tips about digital cameras to online photo editing.
One class that would probably be quite helpful for a lot of geeks is the Adobe Photoshop for photographers class. In this class Marc Mantha will teach you how to make enhancements and corrections to pics as well as experiment with some special effects.
Enrollment for this class starts June 4 and runs until July 31. There will be two lessons each week and the class will end August 8.

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The gentle Lifestyle

Smiling Buddha

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The Image Fulgurator

Totally uncalled for and totally cool. This camera stealthily projects images onto what other people are photographing by syncing up with a flash detector and, in effect, hijacking the photos. Berlin artist Julius von Bismarck created it and has applied for a patent. The Image Fulgurator (to fulgurate is to give off flashes, like lightning) has been used to vandalize tourists' photos by injecting graffiti into their images; they don't see the altered image until after they've snapped the photo and are viewing it on their digital camera.

The creator's main target has been Berlin's Checkpoint Charlie, the Cold War crossing point between East and West, where thousands of tourists photograph the sign that reads, "You are now leaving the American sector." When the Fulgurator is in action, pictures of the sign are defaced with graffiti that comment on what von Bismarck sees as the connection between the violence that took place at the Berlin Wall and that on today's U.S.-Mexico border. The Fulgurator is used "primarily to mess with tourists," says John Brownlee of Boing Boing. "It rankles, somehow." So it must be successful!

This gadget is not available on the market, but the maker doesn't shy away from providing other mischievous photographers the blueprints. If you already have a digital camera, all you need is a light sensor, a flash, and some time.

Credits: usnews.com

Photo of the day:

From The Jousting Tournament Series

Sword of Chivalry

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How to get great shots underwater or from the air

Extreme vacation photography

Are your vacation snapshots stuck in a rut, with photo after photo of someone standing in front of a landmark? For truly memorable pictures you can proudly show off, you need to shake things up. For example, doing something as simple as changing your camera angle can result in more-dynamic pictures. Or take it even further. For a fresh perspective on your photos, try out some of the techniques described by by Derrick Story at macworld.com

Derrick Story is the author of The Digital Photography Companion (O'Reilly Media, 2008) and offers weekly podcasts on http://www.thedigitalstory.com/blog/.

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From The Windows Collection

Festive illuminated windows around christmas time downtown Bad Tölz, Bavaria, Germany

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Getty dips into Flickr to beef up photo stock

Flickr fanciers will soon be able to make cash out of the photos they post online following a secret deal inked with the world’s leading photo agency, Getty Images.
The two firms agreed yesterday that high-quality images posted on Yahoo!’s Flickr service could be cherry-picked by Getty editors searching for interesting photographs.

If Getty spots an image it likes the relevant photographer will receive an email inviting them to join a Flickr-branded photo group on gettyimages.com and become a paid contributor to the company’s library.

Under the deal, which will be rolled out in the next few months, selected Flickr users will be paid the same rate as Getty’s paid contract-holding photographers.

“We believe that Flickr will be an important addition to the mix that we have,” said Getty co-founder and chief executive Jonathan Klein.
He added that Flickr’s contribution will increase the depth of the firm’s photo catalogue and bring an element that he reckoned professional photography often lacks, according to the Wall Street Journal: “Because the imagery is not shot for commercial services, there is more authenticity. Advertisers are looking for authenticity.”

Flickr claimed it gets 54 million worldwide visitors each month and stores more than two billion photos for 27 million members.

Getty’s partnership with Flickr is the first of its kind for the company, which was bought by private equity firm Hellman & Friedman for $2.4bn in

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Summer Fun

Children Playing in a Water Fountain

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Canon’s New EOS Rebel XS Camera Looks to Inspire a New Generation of Digital SLR Photographers

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Photographers Looking for the Next Step Up From Their Point-and-Shoot Camera Will Enjoy the High-End Features and Fun-to-Use SLR Technology of Canon’s Newest Rebel Camera

Canon USA has officially announced its next generation entry level digital SLR camera, the EOS Rebel XS which officially replaces the EOS Rebel XT. Like we told you not so long ago, the Rebel XS offers up a cheaper alternative to the previously announced Rebel XSi.

Aside from features that we mentioned before such as a 10.1-megapixel image sensor, 2.5-inch LCD, 7-point autofocus system, 81% viewfinder coverage, 12-bit image processing, spot metering and remote control functionality, the Rebel XS also boasts of a 3.0 frames per second continuous JPEG burst rate which will only be limited by the capacity of the flash memory card in the camera. Weighing only 450 grams, the Rebel XS is by far the lightest EOS digital camera that will come out in the market.

And now for the most important information, Canon has announced that the EOS Rebel XS will have a retail price of $699.99. The Rebel XS camera body would come with the standard EF-S18-55m kit lens and is expected to hit the US market sometime in August.

More at gadgetell.com/

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From the Cactus and Succulents Collection

Blue Columnar Cactus Facheiro

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How to Wow: Photoshop CS3 for Photography

Peachpit today announced the publication of How to Wow: Photoshop CS3 for Photography, the full-color guide to achieving uncompromising quality, last-minute flexibility, and go-home-at-night speed with Photoshop CS3.

How to Wow: Photoshop CS3 for Photography, authored by Jack Davis, includes tips and techniques on everything from streamlining workflow in Bridge to hand-tinting for an antique look; and optimizing and enhancing an entire photo shoot automatically (and nondestructively) in Adobe Camera Raw. A bonus CD is included with the book, containing all the beautiful color images readers need to follow along with each project.

About The AuthorJack Davis is best known as the co-creator of the award-winning guide to Photoshop, The Photoshop Wow! Book, as well as his popular How to Wow series. Davis is an award-winning designer and photographer, and is an internationally recognized creative spokesperson on digital imagery. He routinely teaches as part of the “Dream Team” at the Photoshop World Conferences, where he was recently inducted into the Photoshop Hall of Fame for his lifetime contributions in the field of education and digital imagery. Davis has undergraduate degrees in Graphic Design and an MA and MFA in Digital Imagery.

More about it at creativepro.com/

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Famous People

It's amazing how many now famous people were students in this High School on Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles

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Microsoft’s Pro Photo Tools, Photosynth

This week scobleizer.com/ published a fabulous article
Is Microsoft trying to capture photography market?

"Thomas Hawk (my favorite “Flickr-famous” photographer) and me will join a bunch of others on Microsoft’s campus up in Redmond, Washington, to attend a pro photography summit that Microsoft is hosting.
Why is Microsoft hosting a bunch of professional photographers?
Is it to kick off Microsoft’s Pro Photo Tools, Photosynth ( which got me, in 2006, to say it was the demo of the year), or DeepZoom? Maybe. After all, these things are really cool and photographers should flock to them in droves.
Is it because the digital photography market has finally gotten big enough to get Microsoft interested? Maybe.
But I think Microsoft has something else up its sleeve.
It knows that if Silverlight is going to have a chance against Flash it will have to get designers to give up Photoshop, or at least use other tools alongside.
Why?
Because designers now are in control of the toolset that many companies will chose. What’s the most important tool to these designers? Photoshop.
So, along comes a Microsoft salesperson trying to get Silverlight and the Microsoft toolset in the door. Things go well with the developers, because .NET code is a lot nicer than Flash stuff. The management likes the pitch too, because they probably will get a break on something else they are already buying (Office/Sharepoint/Exchange are all very popular inside most corporations). But then the team gets to the designers and they say “give up Photoshop? Over our dead bodies.” And the deal ends and the team chooses Adobe’s Flash. Adobe’s salespeople then get a call and they come over and show off Acrobat.com, which is a hit against Microsoft Office and you can see how this goes.
So, I’ll be watching this week to see what’s really behind Microsoft’s moves into photography. Is it to do something really remarkable (which Photosynth and Deep Zoom are)? Or is it to switch designers from Adobe stuff?
What do you think?"

Click over to join the discussion

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Rodeo Time! Steer Wrestling

Looks like the Steer's Neck is twisted by 180 degrees

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Digital Imaging Editing Software

Learn How To Use Adobe Photoshop To Quickly And Easily Edit Your Digital Photos Like The Professionals. This covers the more advanced content of adobe photoshop and you will learn so much, so easily and such a short time. You will be amazed at the things you can actually do with Adobe Photoshop and edit some awesome photos.

It is easy to see why Photoshop is considered to be the premier image-editing software available today. The Photoshop program contains exceptionally sophisticated effects that in the past would have taken a great deal of time and effort to achieve and condenses the steps to reach these effects to only a few simple clicks.

Photoshop does come with a price tag that some may consider high, especially when there are freeware editors available, but with the wide expanse of features it offers, it is considered a vital program for anyone working with any graphics medium from print to the web and even to movies and television.

This higher price tag has resulted in a large number of cheaper rivals (the majority of which are considered inferior) and the blatant piracy of Photoshop itself. To combat this practice, Photoshop has introduced a scaled down version of the original program known as Photoshop Elements which has been a favorite amongst beginners.

From where did Photoshop make its meteoric rise? The program was first developed in 1987 and was released on the market in 1990. Adobe has made sure to stay on top of advances since especially in relation to hardware power and has revamped Photoshop accordingly. Even now, to get the most out of the Photoshop program, you should invest in as much RAM as possible for your computer.

Adobe's hard work has not been the only factor in Photoshop being where it is today. The program's plugin design has allowed there to be are all types of plugins existing for more complex work, as well as some plugins that in reality cost more and do more than the program itself.

In this manner, Photoshop is frequently used in the same aspect as Windows as a springboard. It would be a tremendous endeavor to get these plugins to run with any other software, making competitors essentially ineffective to those using a plugin.

Today, you can get Photoshop for Windows and Mac OS (both OS 9 and OS X). If you want to use it on Linux, however, you will have to use Crossover Office, Codeweavers' program that allows some Windows software to run on Linux, but it will be quite slow.

Find out more at edityourdigitalphotos.com/
and visit their free Tips Blog Full Of Advanced Photoshop Tutorials ...
What are you waiting for?

Credits: David Peters at buzzle.com/

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From the "Jousting, a Medieval Sport comes back to life

Jousting Knight in full Armor

Keeping Traditions Alive

Beautifully hand-crafted Christmas Ornaments

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The Day In Photos

An Arrow T Ranch calf stands under a bush as smoke rises. More than 1,400 wildfires continue to burn across about 550 square miles of central and northern California south of Isabella Lake. California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has declared a state of emergency in Kern County because of the Piute fire, which is threatening several communities in the mountains east of Bakersfield. Firefighters have completed fire containment lines around 11 percent of the 11,500-acre fire in the Sequoia National Forest.

Take a look at David McNew/Getty Images photo
and see more at U.S.News

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Shetland Sheepdog and Black Cat

A nice, loving couple

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50 best magazines

What makes a magazine great? The writing. The ideas. The photography. The design. Sure. But more importantly, a magazine's worth depends on how it catches readers' glances, and then their hearts. Here, Tempo presents its second annual 50 Best Magazines list. Our selections reflect the periodicals that we pay good money to buy, that we pile on our nightstands, that we devour on trains, that we consider to be the best at what they set out to do. There are more than 17,500 magazines published in this country, so choosing the 50 best was daunting.

Chicago Tribune argued, they concurred, they scoffed. And they welcome you to continue the debate.

And check out their
Best Magazines: Readers' Picks
Spike O'Dell interviews editor Tim Bannon on Tempo's magazine picks (WGN-AM) Audio

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Flowers - Beautiful Beasts

The Rose - The Queen among Flowers

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News Photographer Magazine

The July 2008 issue of News Photographer magazine features a cover story by Brian McDermott about some of the photojournalists who have been living on the road with the presidential candidates during the campaign. Also in this issue, Seth Gitner takes a look at what participants learned at NPPA's Multimedia Immersion workshop in May in Louisville; Karin Schwanbeck writes about what's happening with HDTV in local television newscasts; Tamara Welter reports on video cameras that can make high-quality frame grabs for publishing still images in print, and some of the newspapers that are using them; Bruce Young revisits David Douglas Duncan in an examination of this summer's upcoming political conventions; John Blodgett writes about 2008 Best Of Photojournalism Photojournalist of the Year (Small Markets) Denny Simmons of the Evansville Courier & Press; Stephen Wolgast reviews Ed Kashi's new book, "Curse of the Black Gold"; and much more in the July 2008 issue of News Photographer magazine.

Check it out at the National Press Photographers Association website.

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From the "Seasons" Series

Trees in Ice

Beautiful Scotland

Stirling Castle at Night

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New Nikon SB-900 Speedlight

Nikon's Newest Flagship Speedlight Offers a Powerful Addition to the Versatile Nikon Creative Lighting System (CLS).

Dan Havlik at Photo District News wrote about the Nikon SB-900 Speedlight:

Nikon announced the next evolution in its iTTL Creative Lighting flash system this morning – the new SB-900 AF Speedlight. Featuring a 17-200mm zoom range for flash coverage (compared to the SB-800's 24-105mm range); auto switching between both FX and DX-formatted Nikon cameras; and utilizing a new easy scroll wheel to change settings on the fly, the SB-900 ($230) is Nikon's simplest yet most powerful Speedlight yet. This Speedlight is designed to live up to its name, offering 25 percent faster recycling times then the SB-800; and three light distribution patterns – center weighted, standard, and even – which makes the SB-900 adaptable to a range of lighting conditions, designed to help you increase your creativity as a photographer. Speaking of creativity, the SB-900 ships with gels which slide into an attached holder on the flash and trigger a sensor to automatically adjust the white balance. The SB-900 also has a built-in wide-angle diffuser and is powered by four AA batteries.

More information on the new flash is included in Nikon's Press Release

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We Can Do It!

Modernized Rosie the Riveter

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Screaming Face Rock

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Pentax K20D

The Pentax K20D is a fully-featured semi-pro DSLR available for the cost of some of the latest, upper-entry-level digital cameras. It adds a handful of features and tweaks to the highly-respected K10D and attempts to address some of its shortcomings whilst also incorporating a colossal 14.6 million photosites on a sensor co-developed with Samsung.

Is this enough, given the quality of some of the competitors?
Click here to read Richard Butler's 35 page in-depth review at dpreview.com/

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Jousting - Much More than Entertainment

One of the competitors will go down any second

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Essential Nikon D300 Digital Field Guide

Research and Markets http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/3ff106/nikon_d300_digital has announced the addition of the "Nikon D300 Digital Field Guide" report to their offering.
Citing the Nikon D300's high-ISO performance, sophisticated autofocus system, 6 frames per second shooting speed, and an astoundingly sharp 3-inch LCD screen, all for less than $2,000, PopPhoto declared the Nikon D300 the camera of the year for 2007. Nikon D300 Digital Field Guide is filled with everything you need to know in order to take amazing photographs using your Nikon D300.
This full-colour portable guide walks you through the essential controls, features, and functions of the Nikon D300 digital SLR using step-by-step instructions and full-colour images of each menu screen. This robust guide not only shows you how to adjust white balance, autofocus, exposure, and choose lenses, it also teaches you when and why you should adjust each of these key settings. The Nikon D300 Digital Field Guide goes beyond camera settings to offer you a refresher guide to the principles of digital photography, covering the essentials of lighting, composition, and exposure. Filled with amazing examples, this book also presents a variety of tips and tricks to capturing portraits, candids, sports, travel, macro photography, and much more.
Key Topics Covered: Using the Nikon D300.
- Exploring the Nikon D300.
- Nikon D300 Essentials.
- Setting up the Nikon D300.
Creating Great Images with the Nikon D300.
- Selecting and Using Lenses.
- Essential Photography Concepts.
- Working with Light.
- Real-World Applications.
- Viewing and In-Camera Editing.
Appendices.
- Accessories.
- D300 Specifications.
- Online Resources.

For more information read on at BUSINESS WIRE and visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/3ff106/nikon_d300_digital

Contacts
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Laura Wood, Senior Manager, press@researchandmarkets.com
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Hand-crafted Art

Chinese Umbrellas - A Lifestyle in itself

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EDAC Systems Named Award Recipient

EDAC Systems Named Award Recipient by Eastman Kodak Company for Outstanding Growth and Sales Performance

EDAC Systems, Inc., a leading value-added reseller and integrator providing document imaging solutions and services to both government and commercial clients, today announced it has been named Number One Kodak Authorized Imaging Reseller (KAIR) for Federal Sales in 2007. This award makes the ninth consecutive year EDAC has been its winner, and is recognition from Kodak for outstanding growth in revenue generation and overall sales performance. Additionally, EDAC was named a member of the “Million-Dollar Award Club”, an award presented to KAIR’s that exceeded $1 million in Kodak equipment sales in 2007.
“Kodak products are known worldwide for quality and reliability. Although we work incredibly hard, representing a company such as Kodak, whose products speak for themselves, makes our job much easier,” states Ann Blevins, EDAC President and CEO. “We are truly honored to not only represent Kodak and its products, but to be recognized for our sales growth year after year.”
Said Don McMahan, Vice President Sales and Regional Business Manager US & Canada Region, Document Imaging, Graphics Communications Group for Eastman Kodak Company, “Our annual awards honor the tremendous commitment that our resellers and distributors make both to Kodak and to those that depend on our products and services every day. We recognize and appreciate the incredible accomplishments each of these companies contribute to our efforts to help businesses and organizations better capture, manage, deliver and archive critical information.”

Read on at: printingnews.com

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Amazing Discoveries

Dinosaur Tracks

From the 2008Christmas Cards Motif Collection

Music Box Carousel

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Why Shooting RAW files

Camera manufacturers continue to boost the megapixel output of their digital SLRs, enabling them to capture more information and more detail with every new model release. It only makes sense then that you would want to preserve all of that information and detail, right? If you always shoot JPEG files instead of RAW then you may not be realizing your camera’s true potential.
JPEG images emerge from a camera considerably smaller in file size than RAW captures. For many uses JPEGs are convenient and offer fine quality. RAW files are larger and must be processed in software before they can be utilized and shared. So why shoot RAW and have to deal with an extra step when the JPEGs may look just fine? There are a few good reasons that professionals and serious amateurs choose RAW.
Think of your camera as performing two distinctly different functions at exposure. In one step the camera captures an image and in the next step it processes the image into a usable format. If your camera is set to RAW then it performs only the first operation and stores the RAW capture data. If it is set to JPEG then the camera also converts the RAW data into JPEG (a compressed but easier to share) format using camera settings you’ve preselected (white balance, image size, amount of JPEG compression).
What if one of your settings was less than ideal? Say your white balance was set incorrectly, to daylight white balance when you were shooting indoors. The image will be very yellow and need correction. Yes, if the image is an already-processed JPEG it can be corrected in software but that may take some serious fiddling. It also will not be as accurate as if the camera settings were correct in the first place. There will most likely be odd bits of color showing up in highlights and shadows, still.
Now imagine the same photograph had been shot with the camera set to RAW capture. Since the file was not processed in the camera we simply move the file into our processing software, select the correct white balance and it will emerge with accurate color. One simple step has created an image with accurate color and little effort.

Okay, it’s extreme time. Click over to http://reviews.photographyreview.com/blog/why-shoot-raw/ and read the full article by Jim Talkington / prophotolife.com

Picture of the day:

Mediterranean Cuisine

Dried Octopus

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