Dave Johnson - Author - Good Gear Guide

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Article | 19/05/2009 Edit your photos online for free

Looking for a photo editor? The usual choices include Adobe Photoshop Elements (available online for about $US85 and up), which I use to demonstrate t...

Article | 12/05/2009 Photograph a silhouette

Silhouettes demonstrate how awesome it can be to occasionally break the "rules" of photography. It's pretty easy to photograph a silhouette--many new ...

Article | 6/05/2009 Five common photo mistakes

Learning from the pros is always a great way to improve your skills. That's why we read books and watch videos. It's always instructive to see how the...

Article | 23/04/2009 Protect your privacy when uploading photos

Your digital photo files hold all sorts of interesting information. You probably know that you can find the date and time taken, date modified, and ex...

Article | 8/04/2009 Protect Your Privacy When Uploading Photos

Your digital photo files hold all sorts of interesting information. You probably know that you can find the date and time taken, date modified, and ex...

Article | 19/02/2009 Correct your monitor's colours

When I was a kid, I used to wonder if everyone saw the world in the same way. What if what I called "yellow" looked like green to someone else?

Article | 19/02/2009 Change the dates in your photos

Here in the digital age, we are pretty spoiled. Unlike my parents and their shelf of photo albums filled with sticky pages and clear covers,

Article | 16/01/2009 Avoid the red eye effect

"How do I get rid of red eye in my photos?" is the second most common question I get from readers.(The most common, of course, is "Are you as handsome...

Article | 11/11/2008 Five rules for better panoramas

Panoramas--images that combine a series of photos into a sweeping vista larger or wider than what you could capture in a single photograph--are among ...

Article | 29/10/2008 Five reasons to try Adobe Photoshop Lightroom

I've been using programs like Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Elements, and Corel Paint Shop Pro for so many years that I sometimes have trouble remembe...

Article | 24/10/2008 Protect your photos with watermarks

Theft comes in many forms, but it doesn't matter whether we're talking about your car or an old cassette tape of Frampton Comes Alive that you left ly...

Article | 22/10/2008 Make your portrait's eyes come alive

If eyes really are the windows into one's soul, then it probably helps to keep those windows bright and clean.

Article | 22/10/2008 Five tips for winning photos

A lot of photos arrive in my inbox each week -- entries for the Hot Pics of PC World (US). I feel honored to be privy to so many slices of my readers'...

Article | 18/09/2008 Burn your photo's edges

Back in the days when photographers used film and darkrooms, you could control the look of your prints with techniques called dodging and burning.

Article | 11/09/2008 Sharing Full-Size Photos

It's digital photography's very own catch-22: You can't e-mail a full-size 10-megapixel photo to Aunt Carol, because many ISPs don't allow file attach...