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How-To - Desaturation: A Simple but Powerful Image Adjustment Tool
Industry Perspective - Reinventing The Lens
What's New This Month - Kingston, Realviz, ATP, Tamron, and more!
Test Report - A Sinar Bron Studio Setup
Vote! - How do you share your images with family and friends?
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Digital images are composed of three channels—red, green and blue. Colors in digital photography have a number of identifying characteristics, each of which is changeable. One of those is the degree of color saturation of each hue, whether that be a specific color, a set of like colors or the entire image. The ability given by most image editing programs to control color allows you to use one of the simplest image changes to make a radical difference in your work. In this special web how-to we’ll look at how to use Desaturation, or the lowering of color vividness using simple adjustments, as well as one advanced technique using Layers and Layer Masks.
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Reinventing The Lens
by Ron Leach, Publisher

Innovation in the photographic industry has traditionally taken place at the high end of the market. Manufacturers typically invest in research and development to perfect new technologies that are unveiled in pro-oriented products before “filtering down” to cameras and accessories targeted at the hobbyist and the general consumer. That was certainly the case in the silver-halide era, and is still true in today’s digital world, although there are increasingly exceptions to be found. One example of mass-market products leading the way is the recent trend for camera companies to introduce point-and-and-shoot digicams with higher resolution that some of the more advanced digital SLRs in their product line.
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A Sinar Bron Studio Setup
by Ron Eggers

For some shooting situations requiring artificial light, smaller systems are sufficient. But there are times when heavy-duty lighting gear is required. That’s when it may be time to take a look at equipment from a company like Broncolor, which is distributed in the US by Sinar Bron. They recently loaned us a complete single-light studio setup and a separate Ringflash, with its own power pack, for review. The studio setup consisted of the Minicom 40 self-contained strobe head, the Umbrella Para 170 FB, and the Senior stand. The Ringflash was powered by a Topas A2 power pack. The individual components were tested to make sure they were working before everything was put together. Everything worked right out of the box.
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