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Welcome! Thanks for visiting-I hope you come back often! This site is intended to be resource for Digital Photography Basics and Learning the Digital Darkroom (Photoshop).  To get started check out posts in “Digital Photography Basics” and “Digital Darkroom.”  If you would like more specialized help, contact us, and we’ll be happy to assist.

Southold Recreation Dept. Classes

March 2, 2010

If you are a registered student of the Southold Recreation Dept. Digital Photography courses, past or present, then start here.

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Digital Darkroom

March 2, 2010

So you moved beyond the basics and you’re ready to listen to your creative muse?  After you get acquainted with the basics, you’ll want to spend some time learning about the Digital Darkroom. This is where we’ll talk about how use the image editing tools found in Photoshop, Photoshop Elements and Photoshop Lightroom.  Just look [...]

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Digital Photography Basics

March 2, 2010

Now that you have your shiny new digital camera, are you feeling a bit lost on how to use it?  Don’t worry, we’ll help you figure it out. Check out the posts in the “Digital Photography Basics” category, and you should be up and running in no time.

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Showers for May Flowers

May 9, 2009

Every time there was rainy day in April, my father, the king of corny jokes, loved to remind me of the old saying “April showers bring May flowers,” but he would then add “and what do May flowers bring?”  Of course, by the time I was 10, I knew the answer, but that didn’t stop [...]

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Protected: Looking Sharp

May 3, 2009

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Adjustment Layers –A Tool For Tinkering

May 3, 2009

Our discussion about image and exposure correction have used the correction tools right on the layer, so you have to get it right BEFORE you commit to the change. Adjustment Layers, on the other hand, use image masks—those little white squares you see in the layer pallete next to the layer thumbnail. For such a [...]

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Protected: Put It Into Words

April 26, 2009

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Protected: Transformations Make the Difference

April 26, 2009

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Protected: Selections Put You in Charge

April 26, 2009

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Make Everyday Earth Day-Conservation Really Makes a Difference!

April 23, 2009

Since 1970, Americans have promoted conservation of our natural resources by designating April 22 to celebrate our Mother Earth. Perhaps in 1970 our society was still bit too conservative in their collective thinking to recognize what we as a society needed to do to conserve natural resources. Back then, the bottom line seemed to matter [...]

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