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Knocking Down The Wall Between Silver And Digital Prints
Joe Farace  |  Jun 01, 2005

"Has digital photography reached the end of the road?"--Headline in Convention Daily Newspaper

When you read such erudite comments in the trade press, a person might wonder if we have, in fact, reached digital nirvana. Maybe that writer's grandpa posed the same question when wet collodion plates were introduced, but digital imaging is...

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Digital Darkroom
The Digital Darkroom
Using The Extract Tool; Selecting Hard-To-Select Subjects
Darryl C. Nicholas  |  Jun 01, 2005

I am frequently asked how to cut people out of one picture and paste them into another. All such work is preceded by first making a "selection" of the area that you want to cut out. Selections can be made many different ways. And, to some degree, the method you choose usually has to do with the nature of the material or people who you want to select.
With...

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Classic Camera Reviews
A Leica Panoramic Head; A Bit Before Its Time, Though A Tad Off Its Mark
Roger W. Hicks  |  Jun 01, 2005

Here's an accessory from the 1930s which is probably easier to use today, in the digital era, than when it was new. It's quite simply a click-stopped panoramic head (Panoramkopf), Leitz telegraphic code name FARUX, with--this is the good bit--interchangeable rings for different focal lengths. FARUX came with a 5cm ring but you could also buy the accessory...

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Business Trends
Business Trends
Build A Better Website; The Hottest Promotional Tool Today
Maria Piscopo  |  Jun 01, 2005

Photography is a business of relationships, and your website is often the first contact you have with potential clients. Your website must make a prospective client feel comfortable and ease the anxiety that many clients might experience when considering a different photographer. For some thoughts on building this better website we interviewed Michael Costuros, Founder/Director of...

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Show Reports
Best Of Show: Our Reporters’ Top Picks
Shutterbug Staff  |  Jun 01, 2005

While our reporters were assigned specific product categories to cover for the show, we also requested that they pick what they considered their favorite product of the show. The product didn't have to be in their area--indeed, the product could be a prototype or something that wouldn't appear in any real way for the near future. So here's the Shutterbug...

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Show Reports
Bags And Cases
Frances E. Schultz  |  Jun 01, 2005

Fundamental Accessories For Every Photographer
Everyone has to carry their equipment, and a good bag makes it easier to work quickly and efficiently, and saves your back, neck, and arms from unnecessary discomfort. It therefore follows that although bags are sometimes seen as unexciting, they are of fundamental importance.

When you are climbing...

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Adobe’s Photoshop Creative Suite 2
Joe Farace  |  Jun 01, 2005

Call It Photoshop 9 If You Must
OK, go on and say it: Stop the madness! You haven't even upgraded from Photoshop 7 or just started on CS and along comes Adobe's Photoshop CS2 a.k.a. Space Monkey. As before, there are CS2 versions of all of Adobe's other graphic applications including InDesign, Illustrator, and GoLive. This is also the last...

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Image Editing With Paint Shop Pro 9; A Software With Its Own Approach And Style
Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Jun 01, 2005  |  First Published: Jul 01, 2005

Photos © 2004, Jon Sienkiewicz, All Rights Reserved

For certain tasks, Paint Shop Pro 9 produces results faster and easier than other products in its category. For novices, or for those among us who haven't mastered all of the intricacies of more sophisticated software, this latest version of Corel's popular image editor provides simple and satisfying...

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Show Reports
Accessories, Portable Flash, Panoramic & Specialty Cameras
Robert E. Mayer  |  Jun 01, 2005

Must-Have Photo Gadgets
Another edition of the biggest photo show in the U.S.A. has come and gone. As always in recent years, it was huge with thousands of products being hawked for photo buffs of all types. Even so, a number of people I spoke with thought this show was noticeably smaller in size than prior annual PMA trade shows and I would have to agree...

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Show Reports
35mm SLR
George Schaub  |  Jun 01, 2005

For the first time in the history of the PMA Show, not a single 35mm SLR camera was announced at PMA 2005. We do not expect any to be announced anytime soon. Or maybe ever again.
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