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Ron Bilodeau is a graphic designer specializing in book template design and digital media.

Rick Sammon has published 28 books, including his latest, Face to Face – Rick Sammon’s Complete Guide to Photographing People. Other Rick Sammon titles include: Idea to Image, Rick Sammon's Travel and Nature Photography, Rick Sammon’s Complete Guide to Digital Photography 2.0, Rick Sammon’s Digital Imaging Workshops and Flying Flowers – the…

Lesa Snider is a stock photographer and chief evangelist for iStockphoto, and founder of the creative tutorial site GraphicReporter.

Eric Berry is a convert to the Ruby language, along with Rails. He was a co-founder of ShareAPhoto.com which was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2006. Over the past two years, Eric has focused on learning as much about the Ruby language as possible. Now the CTO of Partner Fusion, he spends his…

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Shooting Digital: What are YOU missing?

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Photoshop Answers

O'Reilly Answers: Clever Hacks. Creative Ideas. Innovative Solutions.

• How to take pictures for panoramas
• How to Correct Lens Distortion with Photoshop Elements
• How to Use Color Curves in Photoshop Elements
• Choosing between Bicubic and Bicubic Sharper interpolation algorithms for digital photograph resizing
• How to best set resolution for making a specific-sized print of a digital photograph
• How to use Photoshop Elements 8's Lighting Effects filter
• Fixing dust spots in photos using Photoshop CS4's Camera Raw window

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Announcing O'Reilly Answers - Clever Hacks. Creative Ideas. Innovative Solutions.

By Allen Noren
November 4, 2009

We're launching the beta of O'Reilly Answers, and I'm inviting you to be part of it. In brief, O'Reilly Answers is a community site for sharing knowledge, asking questions, and providing answers that brings together our customers, authors, editors, conference speakers, and Foo (Friends of O'Reilly). O'Reilly is at the center of an amazing exchange of knowledge sharing and idea generation, and we want you to join us in changing the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators.

Creating a comboBox in Flash Catalyst Beta 2

By Chris Griffith
October 23, 2009

The latest release of Flash Catalyst Beta 2 has brought us a lot closer to having a shipping application. We now have the ability to set a host of properties for each object, easier access to skin the wireframe components, and support for video and 3D rotation. Unfortunately, we do not have a full component set available to us. The reason behind not having all the components in Flash Catalyst is due to the different component architecture used in the Flex 4 framework (Spark) versus the Halo components used in the Flex 3 framework. Until a component has been rewritten in the Spark framework, Flash Catalyst cannot use it. The most notable absence is the comboBox. In this article I will show you a simple method to recreate one by creating a custom component. It is not perfect, but it just might be able to tide you over until we have an official component from Adobe.

Photoshop For Developers

By Jesse Freeman
October 14, 2009

Advanced Flash Tactics or AFTs are techniques that come from deep within the Flash Art Of War, the oldest Flash military treatise in the world. Each AFT is designed to be quickly digested, usually only taking a few minutes to get up and running, and contains valuable information you can directly apply to your next Flash campaign. In this AFT I will go over - Photoshop for Developers.

Photoshop or Elements

By Gene McCullagh
July 13, 2009

In a previous article (I Have Lightroom. Do I Need Photoshop?) I discussed whether or not a Lightroom user needs the extra power that Photoshop affords. A few readers asked if Photoshop Elements was enough or is Photoshop the way to go. So, let's take a look at what the differences are and whether you need one or the other. Photoshop is the gold standard when discussing pixel based image editing software. It has a broad and deep set of tools that address the needs of a wide variety of users. Whether you are a designer, graphic artist, 3D modeler, filmmaker, photographer, or forensics expert there are tools for you. Of course all this power and functionality comes at a price. The current list price for Photoshop is $699.00. If you need the additional tools of Photoshop Extended then you are looking at $999.00!

I Have Lightroom. Do I Need Photoshop?

By Gene McCullagh
July 12, 2009

Every time I talk about Lightroom I am asked some variation of this question. I usually answer it by saying "I don't know.... Do you?" Of course I quickly follow up with a short explanation of why someone would or would not need Photoshop in addition to Lightroom. Lightroom is for photographers. Photoshop is for graphic artists and designers. OK, put down the torches and pitchforks while I explain!

The Secrets of Fireworks Photography

July 3, 2009

The Secrets of Fireworks Photography — Big fireworks shows are thrilling to watch, and they make thrilling photo subjects. Because it's night photography, you'd think that all of the rules of shooting in low light would apply. Ha! This hack from Digital Photography Hacks wouldn't be necessary if that were so. Learn what to bring with you, details on setting up your camera, taking the shots, and of course it's also all about location, location, location. Read the secrets now!

dekePod 18: Photoshop and the Andy Warhol Silkscreen Effect

By Sara Peyton
June 11, 2009

Have you ever wanted to create an authentic looking Andy Warhol silkscreen? One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, Warhol was known for his avant-garde paintings and screenprintings. If you want the real thing, join Deke McClelland in the final episode of this dekePod series, as he dissects Warhol's process, and shows you how to use Photoshop to render your favorite portrait in bona-fide Warhol magnificence.

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