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When HP’s Pet-Eye function finally arrives in their Point & Shoot cameras animal owners will get better flash photos. Until then you’ll have to paint the animal’s eyes in with your photo editing software. (Umm, please don’t paint their actual eyes!)
DSLR owners can simply use an off camera flash to eliminate Demon-eyes. For this photo [...]

If you’ve spent any time here on the Blog or at the TeachMeToShoot website you know I am a fan of Picasa. This wonderfully simple, yet powerful, image management and editing software sould be part of every Windows user’s toolbox. Sorry MAC folks no Picasa, but then you’ve got iPhoto!
In late April of this year [...]

One of HP’s latest technology announcements is their new Pet-Eye Fix. Now you’ll be able to correct all those photos of Fido and Fluffy. No more yellow or green “demon eyes” for your animals.
You’ll start seeing HP’s Pet-Eye technology in select R-series cameras in 2007. After you take a shot you’ll be able to review [...]

Photoshop Lightroom took the digital world by storm late last year. An image management software application that’s designed for photographers and BY photographers was unheard of. Adobe, to their credit, listened to everyone who gave their input on how Lightroom should work. This is one cool program and for those of you who are using [...]

Would you like to win $2000 or $500 for a cute shot of your pet? You could if you enter the Pets & Pals Photo Contest being put on by the American Humane Society. The deadline is July 31, 2007 and you have to send in a print (from film or digital capture). No online [...]

Learning about light and lighting is best done visually and with experimentation. That’s really what the Lighting 102 series is about; learning to see lighting (or knowing when to create it). This week’s lesson on Strobist talks about the distance between subject and flash (light source). Run through the exercise that’s laid out in the [...]