Monica's Photography Links and Resources
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last updated: December 8, 2010
Welcome to my photography links page! These links are those which I have found useful or interesting. I've included some Photoshop links for those brave souls who wish to test their understanding and knowledge of PSP. You'll also find online photography magazines, scanner sites, newsgroups, paper suppliers and basic photography sites.
Choosing a Digital Camera
- Bruce Percy- Thoughts
- Consumer Reports Digital Camera Area
- Digital Cameras and Accessories
- Digital Camera Reviews
- Digital Photography FAQ
- Digital Photography For What It's Worth
- Digital Photography Review
- Fodors' Focus on Photography
- FRCN: Digital Imaging
- Imaging Resource: How to Care for Your Digital Camera
- Imaging Resource Comparometer
- Ken Rockwell's Why Your Camera Doesn't Matter
- Mega Pixel
- Rob Galbraith
- Steve's Digicams
General Photography Sites
- 26 Things- for those needing ideas for photos
- Becoming a Better Photographer
- Canon Digital Photography Forum
- Color Temperature Chart
- Denis Germain's Aperture Shutter Relationship- FLASH movie
- Denis Germain's Star Filter
- Digital Camera Reviews
- Digital Outback Photo
- Digital Photography FAQ
- Digital Photography For What It's Worth
- Digital Photography Now
- Digital Photography Review
- Exposing Snow and White Sand
- Favorites in Digital Imaging
- Fodors' Focus on Photography
- FRCN: Digital Imaging
- How to Photograph Flowers
- Image Retouching 101
- Imaging Resource: Taking Better Pictures
- In the Clouds' Photography Tips
- Kodak Film Finder
- Kodak: Taking Great Pictures
- Mark Plonsky's Bug Pictures (Insect Macro Photography)
- Max Lyons Digital Image Gallery: High Resolution Digital Images
- Mega Pixel
- Molecular Expressions: Digital Imaging (nifty Java Tutorials)
- Molecular Expressions: Light and Color (nifty Java Tutorials)
- Photosecrets: The Travel Photography Homepage
- Rob Galbraith
- Steve's Digicams
- Wildflower Photography: Tips & Techniques
PSP Artistic Effects in Photos
- Age your Photo
- Ansel Adams-Like Photos
- Ansel Adams like Landscapes
- Artistic Cropping
- Charcoal Sketch
- Colored Pencil Sketch
- Comic Book Art from Photo
- Converting Old Photographs to Color
- Converting Old Photographs to Color
- Crayon Sketch from Photo
- Make Simulated Canvas
- Matting an Image in PSP7
- Oil Painting from Photo
- Pencil Sketch from Photo
- Primary Colorizing
- Repairing Old Photographs
- Scratchboard from Photo
- Water Colors
PSP Fixing Photos
- Clouds/Smoke/Mist without filters
- Correct Sequence for Enhance Photo Tools
- Basics of Color: Color Correction
- Gurus Network: Introduction to Curves For Photoshop... but you should grasp the basics and apply to PSP.
- Photo Retouching Links... for many versions of PSP
- PSP Clinic: Photo Rescue
- PSP Resources Photo Retouch
- PSP Tips: Lighten up!
- Ron Lacey's Faux Depth of Field
- Scratch Remover tool
- WDVL: Let There Be Light PSP7 Lights Effect
- Working with Dark Photos
PSP General Sites
- Apice's Photo Enhancement (3 pages of photo enhancements or disguises)
- Camp Ratty (extensive PSP photocorrection tutorials)
- Jasc® Photography Center effects and basics here!
- PSP Power- Color correction and more covered in the Autumn 2002 issue
- PSP Tips Photo Manipulation
- Scan Tips (Excellent info whether you have a scanner or not!)
- The Taskbar's Photo Enhancements
Photography Books
- Digital Photography Hacks by Derrick Story. 0596006667.
- Digital Photography Pocket Guide 2E, by Derrick Story. 0596006276.
- Paint Shop Pro 9: Photographers' Guide by Diane Koers. 1592006612
Photography Magazines
- Digital Camera Magazine
- Digital Photography Made Easy (DPME)
- Outdoor Photographer
- PC Photo
- Popular Photography
- Total Digital Photography
Photography Newsgroups
- alt.binaries.photography
- alt.binaries.photos.original ABPO FAQ page
- CorelTM PSP Forums--Open (web version is up) PLEASE read the getting started web forums after logging in.
- Visit the page to get a free account- (old Jasc®)NNTP and/or web forum.
- will show you all forum categories available.
- learn how to set up your news reader here.
- Unfortunately, the Jasc® NNTP is down while CorelTM tries to solve multiple issues.... such as regular crashes during non-business hours and holidays. Keep your fingers crossed and drop into the Corel "cnews" NNTP below.
- CorelTM cnews PSP Newsgroups- no passwords needed.
Photoshop Tutorials
- 4 Step Method to Cleaning Images with PS
- Computer Darkroom
- Digital Contrast Masking
- Digital Tinting
- WetCanvas! Digital Art School series by Roger Elliot-various techniques
- Gurus Network: Introduction to Curves
- Image Processing Workflow
- Introduction to Curves
- Janee's Photoshop Tutorials
- Luminous Landscape Many tutorials
- Photoshop Basics for Photographers
- Primer on Histograms & Curves
- RetouchPro- 4 challenge categories open to all
- Several Painting Effects from Photos
- Tonal Adjustments
- Understanding Resolution
- Using Histograms
Scanner
- Blended Duotones
- Color Correcting a Scanned Image
- A Few Scan Tips Excellent place to learn some basic improvement techniques.
- Grain Aliasing (film scanner)
- High Bit Advantage (Film Scanner)
Software and Plugins
- Corel Paint Shop Pro
- Corel Paint Shop Pro Album
- Exifer for Windows
- Faramir PSP Plugins for Photos- FREE
- Opanda IExif- EXIF viewer extension for Firefox FREE
- Optikverve Labs Plugin- FREE
- Sheilsoft PSP8 and 9 Scripts- FREE
- Xero's Quasar-not free.
- Xero's Filter Sets- Porcelain, Mist, Seasons, Moonlight, Lithograph, Clarity, Serious Fog (24 filters in all) plus a new filter- Nostalgia - Official Source
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