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In my last posts, we covered a few tips on better composition. As with anything the more you practice, the better you will get. I encourage you to take those tips and go practice! Today, we will focus on a fun way to encourage you to practice! It is called Project 365 and it simply means to take a photo every day!
If you computer were to crash today and never start again, would you be able to retrieve all your digital images quickly and efficiently? If you can answer a definite “yes I can,” then I congratulate you! You have already developed a backup plan. I would highly suggest you periodically test to make sure you can retrieve those images. (That the right folders are being backed up, your discs are good, etc.) If you answered no or not sure to my previous question, then continue reading. I will provide some different methods of backup of your images.
The latest RAW update is now available for ACDSee 2009, and includes support for new camera models:
Please go to http://www.acdsee.com/support/updates to download the update.
We are continuing our series in basic composition rules to improve your photos. In the last blog entry we learned the Rules of Thirds and Horizontal Horizons. Today we are going to concentrate on aiming the camera and zooming into your subject to fill the frame. Both of these techniques will help keep the background from overpowering the photo.
One of the many keys to getting a good image is photo composition. It can take that snapshot to a wall portrait. This two part blog series is intended to either introduce or remind you of some basic concepts of photo composition. It is best to try use these composition rules when you are taking the photo, but if you forgot you can use ACDSee Photo Manager to rotate & crop the photos to create a better composition.
Autumn had nice warm colors, you captured and shared in the ACDSee Home Photo and Layout Contest, Autumn has arrived. The winners are:
What you see on screen might not be what you get when you print! Why? All monitors display the colors and brightness differently. Your monitor and the software for your monitor has all kinds of settings. I am guessing many users leave the default settings and just use the monitor as is, but this might explain the screen vs print difference. If you start digitally editing your images, like adjusting the lighting or color, the settings of your monitor are very important. Your goal is to calibrate your monitor to display similar to what is printed. But how?
ACDSee Photo Manager has the ability to create your own categories to organize your images. These categories can relate to your personal photos or to a set of images. Digital scrapbookers have many images (of paper and elements they use to create layouts) and they use the categories to organize them into each type. The categories can be found at the top of the Organize Pane. The categories can be quickly assigned to 1 or more images. Once assigned, all images in a categories can be quickly retrieved with a click on that category! You can easily share these categories with other people. We will share the first way of only sharing the categories and the next blog post will be how to share your images & organizing!
The Home Photo and Layout Contest, Summer Vacations, had a lot of summer like entries!
The winners are:
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To share your images & categories assigned in ACDSee 2009, we use the embed functionality found in ACDSee 2009. (This can also be done with ACDSee Pro 2.5 or ACDSee Pro 3.0.) We discussed embedding previously and to read more in-detail, visit Embedding Data with ACDSee 2009 I will give you the steps and what will happen in the process.
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