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Photoshop CS5’s Camera Raw Plug-in (Part 3)–
Straighten Tool
The Straighten Tool (keyboard shortcut: A) allows you to straighten crooked horizons or skewed elements in an image. To apply it, simply drag the tool across the horizon in an image or any line in the image that is crooked. In Image 18, the horizon is skewed. To [...]

Lost your digicam?–
If you have lost a digital camera, the site www.stolencamerafinder.com may help you find it. The site has a Stolen Camera Finder search engine developed by Matt Burns. It can search the web for images that have the stolen camera’s serial number embedded in the EXIF file. (The one who has your camera [...]

It takes two–
When you get a little older, or rather, when you start getting exposed to more things, you learn that things aren’t always as simple as you first thought. That’s both bad and good at the same time. It’s bad because when things aren’t that simple, you need to put in a little more [...]

A Beginner’s Guide to Flash Photography-
Understanding the Studio Strobe Flash-
(Part 65)–
Recycling Time
Recycling time of the studio flash may not be of crucial importance to some studio photographers. This is true in photographing products where the photographer will have to rearrange his layout after every shot. It is also true for a portrait photographer who [...]

Newsbits  and Your Photos–
Let’s start with some interesting photography news of late that caught your columnist’s eye.
If you’re in the habit of uploading images on the Internet but want to blur some parts of the images for whatever reason, and you don’t have an image editing program, there’s a new service on the Internet called [...]

Photoshop CS5’s Camera Raw Plug-in (Part 1) –
In the last issue, I introduced the different tools and commands that were incorporated into Photoshop to address the issues attendant to the use of digital cameras (digicams). These are: a) tools—the Red Eye tool, improved Dodge, Burn and Measure tools; b) Automate commands—the Photomerge, the Merge to [...]

Your Photos 5–
Congratulations to all our readers who are graduating this year!
Special mention is given to one of our regular contributors since 2007, Katrina Lim of Pampanga, who graduated recently from high school. Trina graduated the Salutatorian of her batch. She was also chosen as one of The Outstanding Secondary Students of Angeles City (TOSSA). [...]