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Improving your photography

Looking for inspiration and ideas to improve my photography I came across a website which fulfilled all my needs. Here was a website that contained information on practical matters - what lens should you have and why, tips to improve yourself and your photography, photographers you should know about, ..... what is this website?... very simply called,

www.improvephotography.com by Jim Harmer

Here is a link to one of the articles on this website:

21 things you can do today to improve your photography Forever

Here is a link to another website which has fabulous photographs of such astounding quality - something surley to aspire to!

www.smugmug.com

Post-editing Software

Today there is a plethora of editing software. Probably the best known is Adobe Photoshop. It has even become a verb.... nothing like photoshoping your images!

But, as we all know, anything Adobe can be hugely expensive and worse still, you can't even purchase the software and own it for ever...no, it has all disappeared into the Cloud!

There still are numerous free alternatives however. Try Google Picasa - it's great for quick and effective editing; Gimp - a bit on the complicated side but it's free!

Pixlr is a recent find - it seems to be very much like Photoshop so if you are familiar with Photoshop - Pixlr will take no time at all to learn - best yet - it's free!

Another recent find is Background Burner by Bonanza. This great piece of software separates your background from your image. It will select the background and give you several versions. You then choose the one you like and you can then modify what has been selected - that is, you can add more to the background or include more into the image. Once separated the image can be saved and used however you like. Use Pixlr or Photoshop to merge the image onto a different background - the sky is the limit, and guess what? Yes, it's free!.