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Getting Your Way–
Control is pretty much the name of the game and a big part of that in photography is getting your workflow as easy for you as possible. It really doesn’t make much sense to have a computer system that will just bog you down and make you less productive. This is supposedly one [...]

A Beginner’s Guide to Flash Photography
Power Management of Your Flash (Part 51a)–
Bring back to life your “dead” NiCad battery
(Continuation of June 15, 2010 issue)
In our past two issues (May 11 and 25), we discussed the fundamental concept and the makings of a Nickel- Cadmium battery (NiCad). Those information are needed for the reader to understand [...]

Hidden Messages and Readers’ Images–
When the FBI arrested the alleged Russian spy ring in the U.S. recently, they revealed that one of the ways by which the suspects communicated was through steganography or the science of hiding data within data. The carrier they used to conceal their messages were seemingly innocent pictures posted on the [...]

Preserving Your Options–
Photography is an art form. That’s how I see it regardless of what type of photography you do and what the government and the law makes of it. Fact is, photographers in the Philippines have it more difficult because we are not as protected as photographers in other countries as regards copyright. So [...]

Complete Guide to Photoshop CS5 New Features (First Part)–
As expected, the new version of Photoshop was released this year and, I must say with a bang. Just when you think Adobe will be hard put to come up with additions to what is already an exceedingly fantastic editing software, they still manage to squeeze in [...]

Photo Numbers and Readers’ Images–
Sometime ago, while searching for studies on just how much digital technology has affected the expansion of photography, I came upon some interesting data available on the Internet. In the U.S., it is estimated that 10 billion more pictures will be taken in 2010 than in 2009, bringing the total for [...]

Skinning a Cat
Some creative decisions–
The Mac seems to have been the creative guy’s choice for quite some time. Now, don’t get us wrong. There are so many things that creative people do on PCs (Does anyone still remember that that term really means “Personal Computer” and thus is not an exclusive Microsoft or Windows moniker [...]