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Dye sublimation, or dye-sub, printing is an alternative printing technology to inkjet printing. With dye sub printing, paper is passed over a colored ribbon, and a heating element is used to transfer color to the paper. A combination of Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black (CMYK) are used to make a…

If you’re going to be doing any amount of people photography, then you really should learn how to use off-camera flash. In some situations, available light is ok, but you can create much higher quality work by using a couple flashes, some light modifiers, and crafting the light in your…

19 January 2012 0 comments Digital Photo FAQs

The official Canon t3i Release Date is (was) March 7, 2011. It was announced in February of that year, and reviewed by some prominent photo sites. Almost a whole year later, the Canon EOS Rebel t3i / 600D is still Canon’s premier entry-level dSLR. It is relatively cheap (currently $670 on…

Photographing an event can be a bit stressful. It’s not going to stop for you, so you’d better be ready the first time around. If something goes wrong, well… you’re out of luck. You have no idea how often I get phone calls from my kids when I leave them…

So you just got a brand new dSLR – maybe a Canon t3i or a Nikon d5100. That’s quite an investment, probably in the neighborhood of $1,000 all told, and you need to take care of it! So here are five tips for the first-time dSLR owner on how to…

Every Canon camera comes with a disc that contains some useful software to help you make the most of your camera. This includes the EOS Utility (aka EOS Capture Utility), Digital Photo Professional, Picture Style Editor, and ZoomBrowser EX. Personally, the only software I use is the EOS Utility, but…

Canon offers some useful free software to help you use your camera. Canon’s Picture Style Editor is a great example. The Picture Style Editor is another RAW image processing tool that let’s you edit color settings and then apply them to other RAW files. The trouble is, even though Canon…

Canon offers some useful free software to help you use your camera. Canon’s Digital Photo Professional is a great example. Digital Photo Professional (DPP) allows you to process RAW images and edit photos. It allows you to make adjustments similar to those you would make in Lightroom or Photoshop to…

[Note: For . It's slightly different.] Canon offers some useful free software to help you use your camera. Canon’s ZoomBrowser EX is a great example. ZoomBrowser EX helps you import files to your computer, organize/view them, and perform some editing. The trouble is, even though Canon makes the latest version…

Canon offers some useful free software to help you use your camera. The Canon EOS Utility (aka Canon EOS Capture Utility) is a great example. It allows you to hook your camera up to your computer via a USB cable, and you can then control the camera remotely and shoot…

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