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A few months ago Mpix jumped on the photo book bandwagon. Their software is a whopping 65 meg download, but they give you a lot of flexibility in designing your book and each page.
They have both soft and hard cover books in a few different sizes. Hard cover books are available in 5×5, 10×10 and [...]

MyPublisher is one of the least expensive of the online photo book publishers, with a 20 page paperback starting at $12.95. They’ve recently upgraded their software to version 2.2 and added a Vintage book style and a very colorful Collage style. You can grab the free Bookmaker software directly from their site. (MAC users aren’t [...]

Yesterday’s ShootLikeAPro newsletter covered digital image archiving. Whether you choose to use CDs, DVDs or an external hard drive, you need to backup your image files. Hard drive crashes are almost inevitable and you’ll be heartbroken if you lose everything.
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After mentioning the DNG video from Lightroom Killer Tips I decided to look into it a bit more. During the past few years I’ve amassed almost 20,000 digital images shot with 4 different cameras and 2 RAW formats. Maybe DNG is an appropriate storage solution.
After some informal tests on my D70 NEF files I found [...]

During the past few weeks I’ve been working on a revamp of my photo website www.kpphotography.com and have been looking for various ways to create web galleries. For the time being I’ve settled on a simple approach; Picasa and SimpleViewer from Airtight.
The canned items in Lightroom aren’t bad, but don’t give enough flexibility for my [...]

Since Google bought Picasa a couple years ago, they keep adding cool features to it. One of the newer features is embedding a slideshow from a Picasa Web Album into your website or blog. It’s easier than ever now.
You’ll need the Picasa software and a Google account to get started. Picasa is only Windows based, [...]