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 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

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From The Jousting Tournament Series

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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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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?"

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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

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