Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2: A Must-Have for the RAW Photographer
Adobe announced today the release of the long anticipated Lightroom 2, their first application to support 64-bit for Mac OS and Microsoft Windows Vista. An absolute MUST-HAVE for any photographer shooting RAW, Lightroom 2 includes improved memory performance for dealing with the larger scale images, and […]

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Shop PhotographyBB Featured Item: Camera Armour
Each week we’ll be featuring a unique and cool accessory for your digital camera, in the Shop PhotographyBB Store’s Featured item Page. This week we look at Camera Armour from Made Products.
Camera Armour is designed to protect your camera from the elements as well as bumps and impact against dropping. […]

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Just a friendly reminder to everyone that the first photography assignment will be closing on July 27th, 2008 at 11:59pm, so you still have a few days and the weekend to get your submissions in! This first assignment is to capture “motion” in your photo, so while you are out there shooting, think about how […]

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If you are looking for a good book on how to improve your people photography and portraitures, then look no further than Skin: The Complete Guide to Digitally Lighting, Photographing, and Retouching Faces and Bodies.
I had a chance to browse through this book at my local bookstore, and I immediately came home to order it […]

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This cool free plug-in from Auto FX gives you a wide range of mosaic artistic effects with endless possibilities. Mosaic makes your photos look as if they were created out of a mosaic tile. Photo-realistic depth and variable tile size and color options give this effect an infinite number of looks.
Mosaic is […]

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Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to take part in PhotographyBB’s latest challenge - The Photo Assignment Challenge. Every 2 weeks, we’ll be assigning a new “theme” for our members to go out and photograph. Each member can submit up to 3 photos per challenge, and the top 3 images will be […]

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Here’s a cool freebie from Polaroid! The Dust and Scratch Remover software comes in both a stand alone app, as well as a Photoshop plugin. The plugin is compatible to both Windows and Mac, and works with Photoshop 5 and higher. A simple to use, and highly effective piece of software from a name we […]

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PhotographyBB Releases Issue #6 of our Free PDF Magazine
Press Release:
VANCOUVER, CANADA, JULY 9th, 2008 - PhotographyBB announced today, the release of the sixth edition of the PhotographyBB Online Magazine. Editor in Chief, Dave Seeram has these comments regarding this recent release:
“We’ve made it to our six month milestone, and this issue is by far our […]

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I just wanted to post a quick notice for everyone to let you all know that the July issue of the PhotographyBB Online Magazine is posted on the magazine page, and now available for download. The official press release will post tomorrow morning. Thank you to all of the contributors this month, and to everyone: […]

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Here’s a great little plug-in from Reindeer Graphics entitled “Select Edges.” What this one does, is allows you to select the edge details in your image for sharpening with the Unsharp Mask filter in Photoshop, without getting sharpening halos in your images. You can also achieve outstanding skin smoothing by running this plugin in “Fine […]

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