Digital photography
offers lots of opportunities to spend money and time "tuning" your photographs.
It is a rewarding hobby but in no time at all you get thousands of pictures.
These have to be
carefully stored away on your computer system and be easily located. Usually two
versions are kept of each photo, one the original and the other the improved
version.
Photographs are
improved by software, the most common being Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro. There
are many other options available.
Printing is best done
by specialised software such as QImage.
Here are some links that will help
you on your way.
Breeze systems produce some excellent software for downloading images and
converting from raw as well as creating pictures for the web and for EMail. Well
worth a look at
http://www.breezesys.com/
If you have a Canon
digital camera this forum is very useful
http://photography-on-the.net/forum/index.php
This site has forums on a
range of cameras, scanners, printers etc and provide a weath of information. The
site also contains excellent reviews.
http://www.dpreview.com/
Steve's Digicams conducts wonderful reviews of a variety of equipment.
http://www.steves-digicams.com/
Larry Bolch site is a mix of personal portfolios and tutorials mostly aimed at beginners
or those who are still very much in the early learning stages. It is not a news
site, but rather a place where he shares his photographic experience with
people who visit it. No advertising, pop-ups or other distractions.
http://www.larry-bolch.com/
Rob Galbraith is a working photojournalist with a penchant for testing things.
He has a great section on memory cards, for example
http://www.robgalbraith.com/
Michael Reichmann is also a busy photographer who also manages to create a
sprawling site "The Luminous Landscape" with a rich mix of information and
opinion.
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/
Thom Hogan is an authority on Nikon equipment, but covers other topics as well
http://www.bythom.com/
Norm Koren's site is rich in technical information - the science behind the
medium - and many tutorials. Good sections on profiling and scanning
information.
http://www.normankoren.com/
A specialist for printing
software is the vendor of QImage at
http://www.ddisoftware.com/
