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Get the most out of iPhoto 08

Move beyond the basic functionality of iPhoto 08 with these 10 advanced tips.

18/08/2008 12:37 PM

Geotagging your digital photos

Struggling to keep control of your growing collection of digital photos? Breathe easy — you're not alone.

11/06/2008 04:58 PM

Learn the best methods for scanning a photo into your PC. This guide will get you up and running with your scanner and show you how to get the best-quality results for scanning and sharing your photos online.

07/03/2008 05:26 PM

Better Photos for eBay and Other Online Auctions

In this CNET quick tutorial, you will learn how to take great photographs of your for sale items in online auctions.

18/01/2008 09:11 AM

Reduce digital photos for the Web

In this CNET quick tutorial, you will learn how to quickly reduce digital photos to e-mail and post on Web sites.

17/01/2008 02:15 PM

Get your photos on the Web for free

There are numerous Web sites which will host your digital photos for free, but if you want more customisation options, a downloadable program might be your best bet. We give you three options that won't cost you a cent.

28/09/2007 03:59 PM

Share and organise holiday photos in a snap

Suffering post holiday happy-snap headaches? Got so many photos crowding the hard-disk, you feel like throwing them all away? If that sounds like you, we've got some programs and pointers to help ease your nightmare.

12/07/2007 11:54 AM

Create a photo greeting card

A great way to use your favourite digital photos is to make a photo greeting card to send to your friends and family.

28/05/2007 01:13 PM

Newbie's guide to Flickr

Want your grandma to start using Flickr but don't feel like explaining it to her? This handy guide will have her tagging photos with 'Lasertag Sake-bombs' before you can shake a stick at your beer.

02/04/2007 02:10 PM

Bluff it as a fashion photographer

Whether you're interested in a career in fashion photography, or just want to take impressive portraits of your friends, this is your essential guide to the latest techniques that photographers are using to get their work noticed.

21/12/2006 12:32 PM

Fixing four common digital photo problems

Think you have a problem with your picture? We show you how you can correct them.

29/08/2006 05:44 PM

DIY: Prepping your digital images for the Web

Follow our simple rules to select the right file formats and sizes, so that uploading your photos to the Internet will be simple and mistake free.

14/03/2006 05:08 PM

Pixel perfect: Getting organised, part 2: more hard stuff

More archiving advice on how to scan hundreds or even thousands of print originals without losing your mind and how to copy MiniDV tapes to your PC.

12/05/2005 12:11 PM

Pixel perfect: Getting organised: start with the hard stuff

Want all your memories digital? Start by tackling the hard stuff - old film negatives, slides and movie reels.

29/03/2005 03:22 PM

Techniques from the Photoshop pros

Photoshop gives you a plethora of tools for manipulating graphics, but you can go beyond basic techniques to advanced effects with these secrets from the pros

24/01/2005 12:55 PM

How to perfect your pictures

Who said the camera never lies? With the aid of simple image editing software, you can turn average looking pictures into photographic masterpieces. Here's how.

18/10/2004 02:51 PM

DIY: Ditch the wallet, carry photos on your PDA

Used to be you'd carry around your favourite snapshots in your wallet. Not so much anymore. One reason: It's way easier to carry around those snapshots in your PDA. Here's how.

26/07/2004 08:55 AM

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Google launches Picasa 3

Google's photo application, Picasa, has been taken out of beta and there are plenty of new features for users who choose to upgrade.
Adobe soups up Photoshop with Pixel Bender

Adobe Systems on Monday launched a technology called Pixel Bender that brings new effects to Photoshop — and some new work for often-idle computer graphics chips.
Adobe's Lightroom 2.1 brings fixes, camera support

Adobe Systems plans to release an update to Lightroom and a Photoshop CS4 plug-in for processing raw images, bringing the software up-to-date with many of the latest SLR cameras.
Interactive Flickr: Now for everyone

Yahoo has finished a redesign of its Flickr home page that emphasises the photo-sharing site's social aspects.
Adobe Flash CS4 Professional

With Creative Suite 4, Adobe aims to make Flash easier for newbies to learn and less of a hassle for veteran users to use.
Adobe embraces latest Canon, Nikon, Sony SLRs

Adobe Systems has updated Photoshop's ability to deal with raw-format images from several of the latest SLR cameras.
Adobe After Effects CS4

After Effects, the popular post-production tool for video professionals, offers numerous workflow improvements for the CS4 release.
Adobe Illustrator CS4

While it looks like Illustrator CS4 will be a must-have upgrade, don't feel bad if you've got some lingering annoyance that it should have had these must-have features a couple of versions ago.
Adobe defends Aussie CS4 price hike

Global software giant Adobe has defended recommending local prices for its new Creative Suite 4 software packages that could see Australians paying hundreds of dollars more in real terms than US residents for the same products.

Adobe soups up Photoshop with Pixel Bender

Adobe Systems on Monday launched a technology called Pixel Bender that brings new effects to Photoshop — and some new work for often-idle computer graphics chips.
Bluff it as a fashion photographer

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Adobe's Lightroom 2.1 brings fixes, camera support

Adobe Systems plans to release an update to Lightroom and a Photoshop CS4 plug-in for processing raw images, bringing the software up-to-date with many of the latest SLR cameras.
Interactive Flickr: Now for everyone

Yahoo has finished a redesign of its Flickr home page that emphasises the photo-sharing site's social aspects.
Adobe embraces latest Canon, Nikon, Sony SLRs

Adobe Systems has updated Photoshop's ability to deal with raw-format images from several of the latest SLR cameras.
Google adds Android app for Flickr photos

Google's Photostream will let phones running its Android phone operating system view photos stored at Yahoo's Flickr photo-sharing site.
Flickr revamp spotlights photos, social features

Yahoo is trying to improve how people can use its Flickr photo-sharing site with a home page revamp. Next up: better photo pages, too.
Revamped Google Picasa site identifies photo faces

A new face recognition feature on Google's Picasa Web Albums will help users label their photos with the names of subjects. That and other changes to the photo-sharing site are joined by a new beta version of the accompanying Picasa 3.0 photo-editing software.
Adobe hopes Lightroom captures photo trends

Lightroom 2.0 is better at editing just a portion of an image and it plays more nicely with Photoshop. More broadly, it's designed for digital-era photography challenges.

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Adobe Flash CS4 Professional

With Creative Suite 4, Adobe aims to make Flash easier for newbies to learn and less of a hassle for veteran users to use.
Adobe After Effects CS4

After Effects, the popular post-production tool for video professionals, offers numerous workflow improvements for the CS4 release.
Adobe Illustrator CS4

While it looks like Illustrator CS4 will be a must-have upgrade, don't feel bad if you've got some lingering annoyance that it should have had these must-have features a couple of versions ago.
Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended

After spending a few weeks working with a beta version, we've concluded that there's just enough that's better in the CS4 updates to Photoshop that many people will find themselves sighing, biting the bullet, and upgrading.
MobileMe

MobileMe is the successor to .Mac, Apple's subscription service for publishing photos and other personal content to the Web.

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Adobe Photoshop CS2

If you work with digital photos for a living or as a serious hobby, then you need Adobe Photoshop CS2.
Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended

After spending a few weeks working with a beta version, we've concluded that there's just enough that's better in the CS4 updates to Photoshop that many people will find themselves sighing, biting the bullet, and upgrading.
Adobe After Effects CS4

After Effects, the popular post-production tool for video professionals, offers numerous workflow improvements for the CS4 release.
Adobe Flash CS4 Professional

With Creative Suite 4, Adobe aims to make Flash easier for newbies to learn and less of a hassle for veteran users to use.
Adobe Illustrator CS4

While it looks like Illustrator CS4 will be a must-have upgrade, don't feel bad if you've got some lingering annoyance that it should have had these must-have features a couple of versions ago.

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Reallusion CrazyTalk Messenger 4.5

CrazyTalk Messenger will have you laughing in disbelief and gasping in horror at your distorted creations. A very fun, easy to use animation application.
Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0

Adobe Photoshop Elements 4 adds even more power to an already top-flight image editor/organiser package. Equipped with a chic interface and a fantastic toolbox, Elements is the best choice for digital photographers who want to put their photo collection in order and share with others.
Ulead PhotoImpact 10.0

For experimenting with image editing without learning esoteric jargon, this program is a delightful and inexpensive introduction.
Corel Painter 9.0

Painter is still the best natural-media artistry program you can buy.
iLife '04

Apple's worthy upgrade brings some nice advances in features and power; the new addition, GarageBand, is the icing on the cake.

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