Digital Photography Tips

Tips for taking great digital pictures, lighting, portraits, people, pets, nature, skies, clouds, flowers, secrets to gimp and photoshop, books we recommend. This is the first page of a world that will give you lots of information about how to become an amazing photographer. From techniques and tips to printing, paper, inks, artistic templates, adding free clip art, to scrapbooking, storage, online selling, and contests.on how to take great pictures

This page is just the beginning, we will build this area to include tips on:

How to take a great digital picture
Tips to improve the quality of your digital shots. How to capture the best digital pictures. Here are some links I feel offer good tips:
http://www.basic-digital-photography.com/shooting-photos.html

http://lifehacker.com/software/photography/how-to-take-great-digital-portraits-159432.php

http://www.picturecorrect.com/photographytips/photography_tips_for_great_photos.htm

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Kodak has a great consumer site for tips on taking pictures, here are a few specific links from their great site: 

How to take great pictures of People
http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-path=38/39/42/93&pq-locale=en_US

How to take great pictures of Babies
http://www.kodak.com/global/en/corp/top10tips_Babies/en/tips.html

How to take great Group shots
http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-path=38/39/42/11164&pq-locale=en_US

How to take great pictures of Animals
http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-path=38/39/42/94&pq-locale=en_US

How to take great pictures of Wild Birds
http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-path=38/39/42/7241/2056&pq-locale=en_US

How to photograph in a Crowd
http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-path=38/39/42/11163&pq-locale=en_US

Top 10 Tips for Photographing with your Camera Phone
http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-path=38/39/1796/13025&pq-locale=en_US

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The O'Reilly site is another fabulous site for great photography information. Here are their top 10 tips
http://oreilly.com/pub/a/mac/2002/10/22/digi_photo_tips.html

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How to photograph Fireworks
http://digitalphotography.wordpress.com/2007/12/30/how-to-take-great-digital-photos-of-fireworks/

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Today's Darkroom - Software -Photoshop to Gimp

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Touch-up Photography
There is some great information on this site but you have to work around a lot of advertising.
http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/beginnerbasics/u/learnthebasics.htm

If you wonder what you can do with just a little touch-up software, visit this website for the fun of it
http://www.hollywoodheadshotstudio.com/touchup.htm

Simple Techniques for Touching up your photos
http://www.basic-digital-photography.com/editing-photos.html

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Digital Scrapbooking Photography
There are lots of sites for this, here is one that gives you a quick view.
http://scrapbooking.about.com/library/weekly/aa020204a.htm

Here's a great site for finding FREE digital scrapbook templates
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art43229.asp

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If you just want to get Free templates, here are some links

Cottage Arts – Some wonderful templates. Free samples for personal use. A few nice downloads. (This company is a standard in the scrapbooking industry.)

DaFont.com - Huge free font resource

Digital Scrapbook Place - Page Kits, Elements, Overlays, WordArt, Backgrounds, Textures, etc. 

Free Digital Scrapbooking – Backgrounds, text, page kits, greeting cards, layout ideas and tutorials

The Daily Scrap – Freebies.

Shabby Princess - Free Page Templates, and packages for personal use.

Sweetest Things - Lots of Free templates. Worth the visit!

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Creating Saleable Photo Art & Where to Sell it

Zazzle
http://www.zazzle.com/

Cafe Press
http://www.cafepress.com/

Etsy
http://www.etsy.com/

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