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Contents DCM#05
What’s hot inside your magazine this March
TAKE BETTER
LANDSCAPES!
How to get maximum impact
from your landscape photos
■ How to compose your subject
■ Make the most of natural light
■ Create stunning effects using filters and lenses
STARTS PAGE
14
PAGE 58
Getup&Go* Creating night
Creative project Ancient monuments, UK wildlife
parks and zoos, sport and icy
moods
Egg man water. Plus 9 top tips for
photographing animal shots!
Add atmosphere
to your photos
with Paint Shop Pro
We combine three
images to create this
surreal and rather PAGE
disturbing portrait PULL OUT
SECTION –
FIND IT
AFTER p34
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006 DIGITAL CAMERA MAGAZINE

Kit reviews
The UK’s definitive reviews
Your 2 coverdiscs
2 HOT SHOTS
PAGE 08
TRAILBLAZERS
PAGE 49
2
CAMERA TECHNIQUES
PAGE 84
THIS ISSUE WE
SHOW YOU HOW TO…
GETUP&GO TO ZOOS
Pullout section
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package every month
TAKE BETTER PICTURES
Making the most of the landscape 15
Creating a sense of depth 16
Shooting a seasonal series of photos 16
Vertical and horizontal formats 17
Photographing water 17
RICOH CAPLIO FUJIFILM FINEPIX
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Using a digital SLR
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Picture Window 2.5

Built-in image browser that makes
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Creating a panoramic photo
Shooting graphic elements
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20
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short work of finding your pictures Using primary colours 85
NIKON COOLPIX
4500 30
FUJIFILM FINEPIX
M603 32
Enhance your photographs using this image-editing
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£ 48
OF FULL
Looking for monochrome subjects
High and low contrast subjects
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slide shows and much more SOFTWARE
ON DISC 1 ON DISC 2 IN TOTAL!
IMPROVE YOUR IMAGE-EDITING SKILLS
FULL Picture Window 2.5 FULL Multiple Image
DEMO Color Mechanic 1.1 Resizer .NET
Improving composition and contrast in landscape photos 22
PLUG-IN Photokit 1.0
TOURS 5 x 3D tours FULL FotoPrinter 3.0 SE PLUG-IN Simplifier 1.0 Combining three pictures for a surreal image 58
TEST SHOTS for each of FULL Multiple Unzipper PLUG-IN Mezzy Deluxe Colouring a faded photograph 64
CANON SIX CAMERA our main cameras DEMO Photobase 3.0 PLUG-IN Digital ROC
POWERSHOT G3 34 BAGS 38 VIDEO TUTORIALS Image- DEMO Canvas 8 Plug-in 1.1.1 Basic selecting techniques in Photoshop Elements 68
editing techniques DEMO Lightbox 2.0 Solving white balance problems with Elements 70
Your images Fixing dark photos with Paint Shop Pro
Creating night moods in your photos
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21 pages of image-editing tips
Black and white negative effects 79
Regulars USE YOUR PC BETTER
EYEWITNESS HELP AND ADVICE Making simple PC fixes with Microsoft Paint 96
Hotshots gallery p08 Photo Clinic p64 Sharing photos and print options on the net 98
Frontline news p10 Your questions answered p90 Colour management tools for your printer 100
SURREAL GROOVY
PHOTO PROJECT 58 PHOTO CLINIC 64
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YOUR PHOTOS & LETTERS FOLD-OUT SECTION AFTER PAGE 34
Reader profile p12 Britain’s Megalithic monuments
Trailblazers p49 Capturing sport
Day in the life
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Hotshots
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Images with impact
SHOT OF THE MONTH
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“This is Gateshead Millennium Bridge just before
dusk. I adjusted the Levels in Photoshop to enhance
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02 MARSH IN WINTER 04 I took my camera on Brean Down near Weston- result. However, before I binned the shot, I
Charlie Brown super-Mare on New Year's Day. Although it was played with Variations in Photoshop to get some
Sony Cyber-shot DSC-F707 a murky day (low cloud, light rain, flat conditions interesting colours, tweaked up the contrast and
[w] www.CharlieBrown and no contrast), I saw these goats sheltering added a little unsharp masking.
Photos.com/Hyatt near gnarled thorns and thought there was a I’m a bit of a purist when it comes to
shot in it. I switched to the black and white filter photography, and rarely play around with
on my Pentax Optio 430RS and took the snap. images. I think this picture has taught me a
03 COTSWOLD BUILDING,
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F300 COMPACT
5MP camera threatens rivals
■ See below
APPLE ENHANCES
IPHOTO, OFFERS ILIFE
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FUJIFILM’S 4TH GEN
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Sony’s Memory
Minolta’s simply QUICK
SHOTS
Stick hits 1GB
smaller camera
TV PHOTO TECH
Armchair Electronics 256MB and 512MB cards coming too
has come up with an
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5MP compact offers built-in image editor and subject tracker, plus 3x optical zoom – the TV Photo 256MB, 512MB and 1GB Pro
MEMORY versions of its Memory Stick flash
Album. The £99
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slot for popular flash
THE DIMAGE
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sing tech employed in the brilliant 7Hi 38mm to 114mm 35mm zoom), the lens is also contention with rival formats like Secure Digital
memory formats
(awarded 92% in issue 4), Minolta’s armed with three aspheric elements to ensure (SD). The announcement is a pleasant surprise
F300 COMES DiMAGE F300 combines a 5-megapixel decent contrast and sharpness at any focal length.
like CompactFlash
and SmartMedia, for anyone already using Sony’s card since it
WITH A HOST resolution and 3x optical zoom in one of the Housed in an elegantly curved aluminium and although you will appeared that Memory Stick had hit the
OF PROGRAM company’s most classy and compact camera stainless steel shell, the F300 even enables you to need an additional
adaptor if you own
buffers early in terms of capacity, while SD
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MODES THAT Measuring just 11 x 5.2 x 3.25cm and weighing thanks to an improved Night Movie mode which
Memory Stick, SD or
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PROMISE TO 185g, the F300 obviously has other stylish automatically fires up as the amount of ambient
MMC cards. The built-
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MAKE TAKING compacts like Casio’s QV-5700 firmly in its sights, light goes down. offers basic editing
functions as well as
Memory Stick Select card that comprises two
DIGITAL and comes with a host of program modes –
portrait, landscape, etc – that promise to make
We hope to bring you a comprehensive
evaluation of the £500 F300 next issue, but if you
the ability to create
128MB units with a mechanical switch that
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The PEG-NZ90 comes with a built-in Bluetooth chip and optional Wi-Fi
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flash to help you make the most of Sony reckons the UK version
those photo opportunities. will be winging this way
Aimed at business users, the CLIÉ very, very soon.
packs in six photo modes to optimise For an early look at
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different conditions and the flash even
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FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHING LANDSCAPES
YOUR GUIDE STEVE BAVISTER

Steve Bavister is an experienced photographic journalist and freelance photographer. He is
editor of The Photographer, a leading magazine for professional photographers, and author of
ten books on photography including Digital Photography and Take Better Family Photos
bavister@easynet.co.uk PORTFOLIO STEVE BAVISTER
How to take great

landscape shots
Landscape photography can appear deceptively easy, says Steve Bavister, but it requires controlled use of
lighting, composition and lens settings to come up with something beyond the obvious

Making the most of the landscape 4
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andscape photography – what could be easier?
All you have to do is find yourself a photogenic Through the skilled use of light, viewpoint, lens setting and WHY WE CHOSE Depth of field is maximised
to retain detail in the background
location, step out of the car, lift the camera to your composition – that’s how. And in this article we’re going to THIS PICTURE
eye, and capture your masterpiece. And, given that every show you how to use them to make the most of the
corner of this green and pleasant land is bursting with features that occur naturally in a landscape.
stunning vistas, you’ll have a some of winners in no time. It’s pretty obvious, but well worth saying anyway, that
If only! As you’ve probably already discovered, it isn’t life for the landscape photographer is a lot easier when The meandering river leads
quite that simple. Because landscapes are all around us and you start with a photogenic location. It’s true that you your eye into the picture
immediately available, many photographers think they’re a can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. So if you want
straightforward subject. And, in a sense, they are. They to give yourself a head start, it makes good sense to Reflections on the water add
interest to the overall composition
simply sit there, waiting for you to come along and take visit somewhere that offers plenty of exciting views – such
pictures of them. as The Lake District, Snowdonia National Park, the
But while the vast panorama that’s spread out before you
may take your breath away, how can you capture it in an
image that will do the same? What’s the secret of retaining It makes good sense to visit somewhere that offers plenty of
the excitement of a 3D scene when it’s reduced to the two
dimensions of a computer screen or inkjet print? exciting views – such as The Lake District, Snowdonia…

FEATURE LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY
2 THE FOUR SEASONS

One of the most fascinating projects you can set
yourself as a landscape photographer, is to take a series
of pictures of the same scene throughout the four
seasons. Ideally, the location you choose should be close
to where you live, so that when you get a fall of snow,
or a typical summer's day, you can dash off and capture
it without delay. Obviously you'll need to remember
exactly how you framed the shot – although to make it
easy you could used the last picture you took in the
series for reference.
Having done a series of four pictures, your next
project could always be to photograph the same every
month of the year. Now that would take commitment!
Of all the tools that you have at your get at ground level. An elevated viewpoint will also give
you the opportunity to identify specific points of interest
near and far. This can be a bush, rock, boat – in fact,
anything at all – but it’s worth actively seeking one out.
disposal in landscape photography, for investigation later. Sometimes, though, the opposite
approach works best, and by crouching down at the
Sometimes there are natural frames, such as trees,
which you can place around the edge.
your legs are easily the most valuable lowest point of a valley looking up, a small hill can seem
to rise up into a mighty crag above you.
Another approach is to compose the shot so a natural
element, such as a river, dyke, road, wall or fence
It won’t take you long before you realise that threads through the picture. Try to get in as close to it as
viewpoint and composition are inextricably bound up possible, so that it looms large in the front of the shot
Cotswolds, the Scottish Highlands or the Peak District. with the lens setting you’re using, and can’t be and then rapidly diminishes in size as it leads away. The
It’s also a good idea to choose one area and get to considered in isolation. Most digital camera these days effect works best when the direction of travel is from
know it like the back of your hand – going back time feature a zoom lens that goes from moderate wide- the bottom left of the picture up towards the top right –
and again under different conditions and a range of angle to short telephoto lens. This provides plenty of and if the ground over which it runs is uneven, this will
seasons. Investing in a couple of detailed guidebooks options in terms of how you can frame the shot. help to imply the shape of the land.
will tell you where the best viewpoints are, and a good Generally, with this kind of approach you’ll want the
Ordnance Survey map is worth its weight in gold. Creating a sense of depth images to be sharp from front to back. If you have direct
Having chosen a location, where do you begin? By When shooting landscapes, most people select the control over your exposure settings you’ll want to set as
walking round it. Of all the tools that you have at your wide-angle position automatically, so they can get small an aperture as possible – ideally f/16 if you can.
disposal in landscape photography, your legs are easily as much in as possible. That’s a good approach, but That’s one of the reasons why a tripod is so useful for
the most valuable. care does need to be taken to avoid everything looking landscape work, because it enables you to set small
As you walk around, you’ll almost certainly discover small and far away – with the shot lacking any kind of apertures without fear of camera-shake – producing
that high vantage points are often the best places from impact. To create the sense of depth you’re after, you images with maximum sharpness.
which to shoot – they give you a bird’s eye view of the need to look for ways of making the viewer’s eye read Using a tripod also helps you slow down and
countryside below. Perched high on a hill you can see ‘through’ the picture. encourages you to work in a more considered,
the shape of the land laid out before you, bringing all One excellent option is to include ‘foreground interest’ contemplative way that’s worlds away from a quick
the elements together in a perspective that you don’t – something at the front of picture that gives a sense of snap. As you look at things more carefully, you are more

a
Compose your shots according to the rule of thirds, where imaginary lines dissect the
image horizontally and vertically. Aim to make two-thirds of the image either land or
sky, or split it into equal thirds with objects of interest in each. For more go to
www.kodak.com/global/en/consumer/education/programs/composition
2 WATER WORKS
Rippling brooks and fast-moving waterfalls are among the exciting elements of the l
andscape -– yet capturing them digitally is notoriously difficult. The main problem is that the
shutter speeds cameras set automatically is normally fast enough to freeze the movement of
the water, taking any sense of action away.
What you want ideally is around 1/8sec to 1 second, which will give the water an
atmospheric blur. If you have direct control over exposure settings, you can try a range of
speeds to find what works best. If the exposure system on your camera is fully programmed,
then try taking pictures on a dull, overcast day, when the shutter speeds will be
correspondingly longer. In all cases, select the lowest ISO setting you have available and use a
tripod or other support to avoid camera-shake.
likely to come up with a better picture. The good thing Both approaches can work well, and it’s largely a
about the landscape is that it doesn’t get bored and just matter of choosing what’s right with a particular
wander off – you’ve got all the time in the world, so location. If you can’t decide which format you think will
take advantage of it! work best, shoot them both and choose later.
Wide angles may take in the general sweep Of course, you can always change the format of an
effectively, but telephoto settings have much to offer image on the computer, but it’s better to keep as
the landscape photographer, because sometimes picking many pixels as possible to maximise output quality.
out and isolating a small element from the landscape That said, you might want to keep your eyes peeled
can be more dramatic than including everything. for subjects that can be cropped to a panoramic.
Because they crop into the scene, telephotos tend to This distinctively long, thin format is tailor made for
give a rather more ‘abstract’ landscape effect – the landscape photography, enabling you to capture the full
more powerful the lens, the more abstract it will be, expanse of a magnificent vista before you.
often ending up as attractive textures and patterns.
Subjects that benefit from this treatment are ploughed Light of my life
land, rows of trees, fields of crops and cracked mud. So far we haven’t mentioned light – arguably the
Going closer, you might also make a superb landscape most important element in emphasising shape and
with a close-up of the rough surface of a wall or fence. form in a landscape photograph. Light is affected by
With telephoto lenses it’s also easier to limit the the season, the time of day and the weather. If you
depth-of-field to make elements stand out. This want to reveal the curves and contours of a scene then
‘differential focus’ involves setting a large aperture, such shadows are essential, which means the sun really has
as f/4 or 5.6, to pick out certain aspects of the land, to be shining for landscape photography to be
such as a single tree, which then seem to be projected worthwhile. The position of the sun is crucial too. You
forward from an out-of-focus background. certain don’t want it behind you because the shadows
As with wide-angles, a high viewpoint will often will fall away and be hidden, producing bland,
help with telephoto landscape photography, allowing uninspiring pictures.
you to look down and select the part of the scene that’s The best place for the sun is 90 degrees to the left or
most interesting. right, so that it casts shadows that fall right across the
picture, giving a strong sense of shape and depth. In
Vertical or horizontal? the right circumstances, shooting into the sun can work,
Many landscape pictures are taken in the horizontal with the shadows falling towards the camera, but care
format, because that helps emphasise the way the must be taken to expose correctly and to avoid flare.
scenery stretches out as far as the eye can see. But The longer the shadows, the more dramatic the
sometimes an upright treatment works every bit as effect, which is why the best summer landscapes are
well, including more sky, and giving a greater sense of often taken early in the morning or late in the evening,
depth to the shot. when the sun is low in the sky.

Dawn and dusk shots
At dawn and dusk, sunlight is warm and rich, and shadows
lengthen, giving additional detail to subjects. The light can
be spectacular after the sun sets when the sky lights up like
a theatre stage backdrop

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Many of the best scenic images are captured just after the sun's come up, so set your alarm
clock for an early start – you can always go back to bed afterwards! While you can take
good landscapes within walking distance of your car, the best locations are more remote
and only accessible on foot
2 FILTER TIPS
If you choose your weather carefully, a straight record of the scene will guarantee success.
But sometimes landscapes need a bit of help. Now your first thought might be to tweak
things on the computer, but it's also worth considering using filters, as you would on a
film-based camera. If you're planning to take a lot of landscape shots it's much quicker
and easier than enhancing dozens of images. The most useful filter for landscapes is
graduated – half-coloured, with the top the darkest fading to the middle. This is used to
add interest to bland, empty skies. For general use, grey or blue graduated filters are best,
but it's also wroth experimenting with some of the more dramatic ones such as tobacco,
which gives a stormy effect. And nothing beats a polarising filter to deepen the colour of
an already blue sky and make fluffy clouds stand out.
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There are many fair-weather landscape photographers
USING A DIGITAL SLR who only go out snapping scenics when the sun is
shining. And, of course, they get some good pictures.
The lens on most 'compact' digital cameras is only But they’re also missing out on other shots they could
moderately wide angle, and to produce jaw-dropping take in bad weather, which would add variety to their
compositions you really need something with portfolio and make it far more interesting.
greater coverage. If you already have a film-based Changeable conditions can produce some truly
SLR system, and have invested in one of the latest dramatic pictures, especially if you’re ready, with your
digital SLR bodies, such as the Fujifilm S2 or Canon D60, finger on the shutter release, for when the sun breaks
you have the potential to create something more through the clouds for just a few seconds. If you’re lucky
dramatic. Many companies are now producing wide- you may be rewarded with a rainbow. The more you’re
angle zoom lenses that start from 15mm, which, even out taking pictures, the more you increase the chances
allowing for the magnification factor of 1.6x that results of being there when a rainbow makes an appearance.
from using the lens on a digital camera. This gives the Then you’ve got to work quickly. You’ve often have less
equivalent of 24mm in film terms – significantly wider than five minutes to get the picture you want in the
than is possible on most cameras without the bag, so work fast and take lots of pictures.
interchangeable lens facility. Misty weather and fog offer the potential for
capturing some memorable images, with distant
elements all-but-invisible, and foreground subjects
Changeable conditions can produce some truly

dramatic pictures, especially if you’re ready,
with your finger on the shutter release
That’s where a map comes in handy, and also rendered normally. In such situations you may need to
sometimes a compass. By planning ahead and select a higher ISO setting, as light levels are often
anticipating the position of the sun in relation to a rather low. Winter, too, completely transforms the
particular location, you can make sure you’re there at appearance of a landscape, especially in areas where
the time to catch it in the best light. snow falls heavily.
A canopy of white makes elements such as trees
Shooting in the autumn and winter stand out more starkly, while even a sharp frost can
In autumn and winter, though, the sun doesn’t rise so provide interesting details that are worth recording. Do
high anyway, so when it’s shining it’s possible to create check your images before moving on, though, as all the
evocative landscapes pretty much all through the day – light bouncing around can easily cause under-exposure.
although dawn and dusk remain the best time, because While this can to some degree be salvaged later, it’s
then the light is softer and also warmer in tone. better to adjust your exposure if you have the option so
The flat, shadowless light you get on an overcast day you can capture the scene as accurately as possible.
is generally the kiss of death to scenic work – although But don’t wrap your camera in cotton wool – get out
in stormy weather the dramatic skies can sometimes and photograph the landscape in all its many guises.
compensate for lack of excitement on the ground. Modern cameras are extremely well made, and will

FEATURE LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY
Creating a panoramic image

DRAW IN THE EYE HIGHLIGHT THE DETAIL POLARISING FILTER TELEPHOTO SETTING
The light area in the bottom left-hand The exposure has been A polarising filter has been used Using a telephoto setting has
corner leads the eyes into the frame slightly adjusted to prevent over the lens to boost saturation helped to 'compress' and flatten
white buildings from being and deepen the blue of the sky, the perspective
TRIPOD bleached out producing a rich, lush tonality
Using a tripod allows both SKY AND CLOUDS
a fast shutter speed to avoid PANORAMIC POTENTIAL TIMING Waiting a few minutes for some
camera-shake and a small The shot is framed with the The picture has been taken in the clouds to drift by results in a more
aperture of f/16 to maximise intention of cropping it to the middle of the afternoon, when interesting picture
depth-of-field letterbox shape the light is crisp but not harsh
2 YOUR COLLECTABLE CARDS

blue sky, full of vivid colour, or a swathe of barley
You don't have to head off into the blowing in the wind can be every bits as appealing –
and a lot more accessible if you have limited time to
middle of nowhere to get great take pictures. Want to create a panaroma? Take a look this month’s
Although we always talk of ‘landscapes’, it doesn’t cover story companion tips cards. We’ve got six tips to
landscape shots – man-made mean you can’t take pictures with water in them. In help you produce jaw-dropping landscape panromas.
fact, you can get the best of both worlds if you take
landscapes can be just as effective some shots around our coastline. Small, colourful fishing
boats, moored in picturesque harbours, make superb
subjects fit for a calendar, while reservoirs and lakes
suffer no harm if used sensibly. If in doubt, keep the have similar potential. If you want to get people
body of the camera in a transparent freezer bag, to ‘oohing’ and ‘ahhing’ when they look at your pictures,
protect it from moisture. nothing beats a sunset over water.
A good bag is also a worthwhile accessory, especially A final thing to consider is whether you want to be a
if you plan to do a fair bit of walking to find the best purist, as many landscape photographers are, and avoid
spots. Holdalls designed as rucksacks are most including people in the picture. While there’s certainly a
comfortable, as the weight is spread over both strong case for doing that, as they can easily be a
shoulders, and you can all your essentials such as maps distraction (especially keen walkers wearing orange
and a sandwich without getting fatigued (see our fleeces), including an individual or group can sometimes
review of camera bags on page 38). give a welcome sense of scale that takes the shot to a
You don’t have to head off into the middle of higher level. So even if your preference is to wait until
nowhere to get great landscape shots – man-made people have moved out of the frame, it can be worth
landscapes can be just as effective. A rape field under a taking a couple of shots to see whether it works.

FEATURE LANDSCAPE – POST-SHOOT
Improving composition and

contrast in landscape photos
Great landscape images can be made to look even better using a few simple Photoshop edits. Tim Daly shows you how
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ocation shooting can be difficult at the best of without doubt, the hardest photographic skill to pick up, The best tools Photoshop offers are for darkening
ON OUR
COVERDISC times, with changeable light and unreliable so in the meantime there’s Photoshop’s cropping tool. bland areas of images and converting the whole photo
weather conditions to contend with. Happily, With adventurous crops, large sections of original into a visual mix of dark and light. Great photographic
PICTURE WINDOW Photoshop has several tools to help you tweak your pixels are discarded, resulting in the potential for a prints, whether digital or conventional, all have slightly
Enhance your photos using its
powerful image-editing tools,
digital shots afterwards, in much the same way as smaller, but more interesting print. There’s no hard-and- darker areas linking to lighter areas, to encourage the
plus create high-quality prints, traditional photographers would adjust their landscape fast rule that states that all landscape images need to viewer to ‘scan’ and examine the subtleties of the
multimedia slide shows etc prints in a darkroom. be a regular rectangular size, and combined with the image. Compared to a snapshot with its all-over single
Landscape photography is all about subtlety, ability of inkjet printers to output onto any size or tone and lack of strong emphasis, the carefully crafted
emphasis and dynamic composition. Composition is, shaped paper, this won’t be a problem. digital print will win hands down each time.
0 EXPERT TIPS
TIM DALY
PHOTOSHOP EXPERT
BOOSTING COLOURS
Caution is the key word when
increasing the saturation of your
colours because digital images
can easily become overcooked.
Avoid applying excessive
saturation commands, especially
to images that have been
compressed in the JPEG format,
as the blocky shapes caused by
compression will become
more visible.
ADJUST THE HORIZON LINE CROP THE IMAGE IMPROVE DOMINANT COLOURS
01 It’s easy to end up with wonky composition. To
02 This example had far too much bland grey sky
03 Great landscape images can be dominated by
mend a sloping horizon line, turn on the in the shot, so it was removed using the Crop a single colour, like the yellow here. From the
View8Rulers option then drag the top ruler to bring a blue tool. Drag the tool across your image and let go to dialog box edit menu, choose a colour, then increase
0 EXPERT TIPS non-printing guide over the horizon. Do Edit8Select All,
then Edit8Transform8Rotate and straighten the horizon.
preview the potential new crop. The darker grey area will
indicate the section to be discarded.
Saturation (to no more than 10) by using
Image8Adjustments8Hue/Saturation command.
TIM DALY
PHOTOSHOP EXPERT
WORK ON A
DUPLICATE LAYER
If you’re worried about ruining your
original image file, then make a
duplicate Background layer to work
on. Click and drag the Background
layer icon on top of the tiny new
layer icon, at the bottom of the
Layers palette.
GAMUT COLOURS
You can see which colours won’t
print with the same intensity as
viewed on the monitor via the
View8Gamut Warning command. SELECT THE SKY DARKEN DOWN THE SKY DARKEN DOWN THE FOREGROUND
When making colour saturation 04 When natural lighting is flat, you can easily 05 Now do Image8Adjustments8Brightness/ 06 To balance out your dark sky, now darken
edits, turn the Gamut Warning on, introduce drama by darkening down the sky. Contrast and move the Brightness slider left down areas of the foreground. Use the Burning
so you can see when you’ve gone
Use the lasso tool and draw a rough selection edge until you see a difference. With very neutral grey skies, in tool and work on the Midtones, with a 30% Exposure.
too far. Colours that won’t print will
be tagged with a grey colour. around the part you want to darken. Do Select8Feather this could be as much as –40. If it looks too obvious, go Large soft edged brushes are best, such as 120 pixels.
and enter a 20 Feather Radius to soften down the edge. back one step using your History palette and try again. Click and paint into areas which need darkening down.

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RICOH CAPLIO RR-35 PAGE
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THE 3-MEGAPIXEL SNAPSHOT
Three megapixels can turn out a decent photo these
days and this is the cheapest model on the market
NIKON COOLPIX 4500 PAGE
30
THE 4-MEGAPIXEL COMPACT (BEST BUY)
Better designed and specced than its predecessor
the 990 – and still using that crafty swivel design
CANON POWERSHOT G3 PAGE
34
THE 4-MEGAPIXEL COMPACT
Does the long awaited Canon G3 – the priciest
camera reviewed this issue – stand up to scrutiny?
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REVIEWS 3-MEGAPIXEL COMPACT
RICOH CAPLIO RR-30
Price £225
Resolution 3.2 megapixels
Lens f2.6-4.7 3x zoom
Memory 8MB internal, SD card slot
Battery Life 350 shots with optional Li-ion cells
Contact Johnsons Photopia 01782 753 300 www.ricoh-cameras.co.uk SAMPLE IMAGES ALL THESE IMAGES CAN BE FOUND ON OUR CD
Ricoh Caplio RR-30

The RR-30’s as cheap an introduction to 3-megapixel photography as you can get, but
has its appeal been driven down along with its price?
R
icoh’s digital camera range is a bit of an odd
* ON OUR
COVERDISC mixture. At the top end it’s got its business-
orientated i500 and i700 models, and the
2
similarly styled 4-megapixel RR-1. These boast unusual
slab-like styling which works surprisingly well, but the
pricing and the business slant have left these models
rather dead in the water.
Meanwhile, lower down the range, there’s the
cute MP3-playing RR-10 and the cheap and cheerful
VIRTUAL TOUR
Try before you buy! Rotate and 2-megapixel RR-120. Bang in the middle of these two is
view this camera on-screen with the RR-30, with higher resolution, higher spec and more
our unique virtual reality tour
mass-market appeal, especially at current prices.
ON OUR
Price will have to be a big factor in choosing this
camera, because its feature set is pretty much par for
3
C WEBSITE the course in this area of the market. It does offer a
choice of metering patterns, though, and can even
OPINIONS & SHOPPING
Post your views, see what other bracket your exposures. Its rather bulbous design, then,
readers think then buy this camera! disguises some reasonably serious intentions.
digitalcameramagazine.co.uk/
Bargain basement
The design doesn’t inspire a lot of confidence, mind. 7 7 OPTICAL
LENS
Both the styling and the materials feel on the cheap You’re doing well to VIEWFINDER
DIGITAL RANGE side, and it doesn’t take long for the matt silver finish to get a 3x optical The optical
viewfinder is small,
RICOH start marking up with scuffs and scratches.
zoom at this price,
and the performance but easy to find
In use, though, it starts to grow on you. Startup is is well up to par with your eye
CAPLIO RR-1
Price: £469 reasonably fast at around three seconds, and the
Megapixels: 4.0 focussing seems quite speedy, too – plus, it doesn’t
suffer from the same hunting and whirring that gloomy artificial lighting, and the generally cheap feel of through the flash settings, while ‘down’ takes you
RDC-I500 mar other cameras. the buttons. The controls are well-spaced, though, and, into macro mode.
Price: £375
The two-stage shutter action is good, too. It’s well- in keeping with the rest of the camera, organised very The menu system is easy to follow, though the EV
Megapixels: 3.3
weighted and positive, and you know exactly when the clearly. Ricoh has used four separate directional buttons compensation control could do with being more
CAPLIO RR-10 exposure and focus have locked so that you can take arranged in a circle rather than a single four-way accessible. The Scene mode is especially good. There
Price: £285 the picture. navipad, and even though they’re mounted flush are only six different scene settings, but each one is
Megapixels: 2.1 This is a camera you’ll get to grips with very quickly. with the backplate, they’re still easier to use than accompanied by a typical photo and an explanation
CAPLIO RR-30 The main mode dial on the top plate is clear and self- the navigational controls on far more expensive of when to use that mode and how it works.
5
Price: £225 explanatory, offering access to the playback, picture- cameras (like the Nikon CoolPix 4500, reviewed Playback speed is pretty good, though images take a
Megapixels: 3.2 taking, scene, movie and setup modes, with a power this issue, for example). couple of seconds to render at full resolution. Zooming
CAPLIO RR-120 button in the middle. There are other small design changes to consider. in and panning is particularly fast for a camera in this
£ Price: £175 On the back of the camera, everything is equally Ricoh has adopted the latest practice of using the price range.
5 Megapixels: 2.2 logical, though you can tell it’s been built to a budget by
the way the LCD image grows dim and grainy in
navigation buttons to offer shortcuts to common options
in photo-taking mode. Here, the ‘up’ button cycles
The Ricoh should prove practical, too. Working off just
a pair of AA cells, it can also take optional rechargeable

RICOH CAPLIO RR-30
TURN THE PAGE TO PERFORMANCE
COMPARE TEST SHOTS
2 SKIN TONES
1
7 5 PRO Skin tones reproduce well, especially in

natural lighting, with few unnatural colours
6 CON Complexions can look a bit colourless using

direct flash, or slightly yellow in some conditions
3
3
4 2 OUTDOOR SHOTS
MODE DIAL
The mode dial’s big,
easy to grip, hard to
move accidentally and
so obvious you won’t
need any instructions
7 7 7
SHUTTER RELEASE LCD NAVIPAD
The shutter The LCD is bright Four separate
action is good, and crisp enough, buttons feel a bit
and focussing is
crisp and
though it does start
struggling in low
cheap, but they’re
well-spaced and 5 PRO Good exposure control, high levels of contrast
and tremendous colour saturation and vibrancy
accurate light levels logically arranged
6 CON Didn’t like shooting into the light very much,
and slightly underexposed a couple of our shots
lithium-ion units which Ricoh reckons should be Noise is well-controlled, edges are sharp without good, though, it packs in some useful photographic
2 INDOOR SHOTS
good for 350 or so shots. The NiMH cells we used in exaggerated sharpening artefacts, and there’s not features and – most important of all – it produces
our camera seemed to last pretty well, too. too much colour fringing around bright areas, either. good quality shots reliably in a variety of conditions.
Indeed, while it’s the 4- and 5-megapixel
Picture quality cameras that tend to grab all the headlines these Close contenders
So while the Ricoh lacks the features, style or charm days, you might not have noticed a quiet revolution But this is a very crowded market-place, and the RR-
to be a ‘must-have’ digital camera, it does look going on lower down the market. Some of the 30 is up against tough competition from a number
pretty good at the price. It’s the sort of camera you much cheaper cameras, using only the ‘old’ 3- of makers. It’s just about the cheapest 3-megapixel
camera with an optical zoom on the market right
With its 3.3-megapixel CCD it’s obviously not now, but not by much. HP’s PhotoSmart 720 comes
5 PRO The smooth shutter action should keep
camera shake to a minimum using available light
6
close, with its barmy but likeable retro styling, while CON Few problems, though we couldn’t find the
going to challenge serious enthusiasts’ kit, Sony’s DSC-P71 is hot on its heels – likely to cost you slow flash mode – that left shots looking harsh
but it does deliver rather good shots

only a little more and is much better made.
FujiFilm’s A303, meanwhile, is in the same price 2 IMAGE QUALITY
territory again, and it’s slimmer and neater than the
buy with your head, not your heart. megapixel chips, are now turning out some very Ricoh. We also like the Olympus C-300, currently
That being so, you probably wouldn’t expect respectable results indeed. dipping well under the £300 barrier and another
anything more than simply competent image quality Our camera did produce some vertical lines down first-rate performer.
from this little number – but that’s where the RR-30 the left hand side of the frame when we were So it all comes down to price in the end. If you
springs a couple of surprises. With its 3.3-megapixel shooting into the light for our outdoor test shot, but really do need to shave off every pound, and the
CCD it’s obviously not going to challenge serious the conditions were fairly extreme and the same RR-30 comes along at the right price, then go for it.
enthusiasts’ kit for image quality, but it does deliver fault wasn't repeated on any other occasion. If it was our money, though, we’d spend £20-30
rather good shots nonetheless. Not only are they The Caplio RR-30 isn’t instantly impressive. extra on one of its rivals, if only for the extra build
well-exposed, they’re saturated and sharp, too. Indeed, it does feel rather cheap. The controls are quality and style. 5 PRO Highly saturated, colourful images that show
good levels of detail. You won’t be disappointed
6 CON Watch out for colour fringing around bright

highlights, and avoid bright light sources
RICOH CAPLIO RR-30 FULL SPECIFICATIONS 1 A bit of a

plain Jane that
FEATURES
IMAGES
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82
1
1
Verdict
Sensor 3.24-megapixel, 1/2.7-inch 3.34MP CCD Image storage SD card slot

Lens Ricoh f2.6-4.7 3x zoom Batteries 2 x AA BUILD 70 1
Focus
Exposure modes
Auto, 1cm in macro mode
Program AE, scene modes
Battery life
AC adaptor
350 shots with optional Li-ion cells
No
nevertheless VALUE 82 1
Metering Multi-segment, centre-weighted, spot Weight 160g (without batteries or card)
takes good
77%
Monitor
AE compensation
1.6-inch 80,000 pixels
+/-2EV in 0.3EV increments
Dimensions
Transfer
114mm(w) x 54.5mm(h) x 32.5mm(d)
USB
shots FINAL
Flash
Video output
Auto, on, off, slow, red-eye
NTSC and PAL
Software:
OS
Ricoh Gate, DU-10 image browser/editor
Windows 98/Me, 2000, XP. Mac OS8.6-9.2.2, OSX
SCORE
Movie recording 320 x 240 at 15fps without sound 10.1.2 or later
With so many good cameras at or
Other features 8Mb internal memory around the Ricoh’s price point, it could
do with a bit more appeal. As it is, it’s
2
HP PHOTOSMART OLYMPUS FUJIFILM FINEPIX SONY
WORTH 720 C-300 A303 DSC-P71
a camera you’ll buy on price alone
A LOOK £250/3MP £280/3MP £270/3MP £260/3.3MP

REVIEWS 2.1-MEGAPIXEL COMPACT
FUJIFILM FINEPIX F402
Price £300
Resolution 2.1 megapixels (4 megapixel output)
Lens f3.2 fixed focal length
Memory 16Mb xD-Picture Card
Battery life 140/400 shots (monitor on/off)
Contact Fujifilm 020 7586 1477 www.fujifilm.co.uk SAMPLE IMAGES ALL THESE IMAGES CAN BE FOUND ON OUR CD
FujiFilm FinePix F402

Digital dons, FujiFilm, has produced a slinky 2-megapixel point-and-shoot that uses advanced
light sensing to give 4-megapixel images. But do the results stand up to scrutiny?
* ON F
ujifilm is one of the digital camera world’s
OUR
3
COVERDISC pioneers. Its SuperCCD imaging technology is
now in its third generation, Fuji is working
jointly with Olympus on the new xD-Picture Card
format, and FujiFilm cameras have long boasted a
combination of innovative styling and build quality
3
that’s left the rest looking slightly lacklustre.
The SuperCCD chips used in many of FujiFilm’s
cameras feature larger-than-usual light sensing cells. The
VIRTUAL TOUR in-camera processing produces output files larger than
Try before you buy! Rotate and
view this camera on-screen with the SuperCCD’s native resolution. The 2.1-megapixel
our unique virtual reality tour. SuperCCD in the FinePix F402, for example, generates
ON OUR
4-megapixel files, while the 3.3-megapixel SuperCCD
in the M603 (also reviewed this issue) can generate
4
C WEBSITE 6-megapixel images.
OPINIONS & SHOPPING So does the image quality match that of genuine 4
Post your views, see what other and 6-megapixel CCDs? That’s one of the things our test
readers think then buy this camera!
was aiming to find out.
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What can it do?

The F402 is designed as a highly pocketable ‘take
anywhere’ camera pitched fair and square at the
DIGITAL RANGE
snapshot market – which doesn’t necessarily exclude
experienced photographers if the features are right.
7 7 7
FUJI With better build and a lot more style than entry- CRESCENT-SHAPED LENS
PANEL MICROPHONE GRILLE The fixed focal length
FinePix F601 level FujiFilm cameras, it’s not the cheapest camera you The F402 can record
This sliding panel lens restricts the F402’s
Price: £400 can get by any means. Does it justify its price tag? A is the power switch: movies with sound, versatility, but not its
Megapixels: 3/6 nice movement but only at 10fps image quality
cursory glance would leave you doubtful. With its
FinePix F401 program AE exposure system and simple point-and-
Price: £330 shoot controls, the F402 is no more sophisticated than case and a cradle for placing it next to your computer. the size of a SmartMedia card – but the 16MB capacity
Megapixels: 2/4 2-megapixel cameras costing £100 less. The menu The fixed focal length lens (39mm equivalent) is a bit is OK, and these cards are reckoned to offer faster
FinePix F402 system, for example, can be set to Auto (point and disappointing, since nearly all the F402’s rivals have read/write times and lower power consumption.
5
Price: £300 shoot only) and Manual (adding EVcompensation and zooms, and while you can shoot movies with sounds at On paper at least, the FinePix F402 doesn’t seem
Megapixels: 2.1 white balance adjustment). Still, it is very easy to 320 x 240 resolution, it’s only at 10fps. that impressive, but all that changes the moment you
operate. The graphical menu system is simple and it’s take it out of the box. It’s very slim indeed, with a
FinePix A303
Price: £270 immediately obvious how to navigate it. Pixel performance brushed metal finish, solid-feeling build and smooth-
Megapixels: 2 There are no custom ‘scene’ modes for portraits, On the other hand, the SuperCCD does have high cornered styling. The startup time is around a second
landscapes, night shots and so on, but the LCD can sensitivity, going up to ISO 800 and 1600, though only and focusing is pretty fast too. The shutter action is a
FinePix A203 display a grid, splitting up the scene into a 3x3 grid as a at 1260 x 980 resolution, using special ‘Pixel Coupling’ little uncertain at the end, leaving you wondering if
£ Price: £230
5
compositional aid. You can hook up the F402 to your PC technology. The xD-Picture Card you get with this and you’ve taken the shot or not, but the weighting is
Megapixels: 2
to use it as a webcam, and the price does include a soft other FujiFilm cameras certainly is tiny – less than half otherwise OK. The power switch is especially neat – a

FUJIFILM FINEPIX F402
COMPARE TEST SHOTS
2 SKIN TONES
7 SHUTTER BUTTON
4
3
The shutter release
5
has a reasonable PRO A nice healthy warmth in various lighting
action, but needs conditions, including flash. Good tonal rendition.
6
better shot CON Can exaggerate reds a little at times, which
confirmation seems to be characteristic of the SuperCCD
1
7 2 OUTDOOR SHOTS
LCD
The LCD is bright and
crisp, and pleasingly,
the optical viewfinder
isn’t bad either
7 ROW OF BUTTONS
This row of buttons
looks smarter
than a navipad,
but doesn’t work as
well. The control layout
is very good, though
5 PRO Very good exposure control, even in tricky
conditions like backlit and high contrast scenes
6 CON Bright highlighted areas can merge and

wash out, but the F402 isn’t alone here
sliding panel to the left of the body as you hold the particularly easy to use. Things are looking up for the you’d hope for at this price, after all.
2 INDOOR SHOTS
camera, with a really nice action. little FinePix, then, but can the image quality from Where the SuperCCD does score, though, is its
The optical viewfinder is on the small side, but its 2.1-megapixel SuperCCD match up? sharpness at normal viewing distances. The shots
easy enough to put your eye too and quite crisp and Well, it’s not bad at all. SuperCCD images have are punchy and crisp-looking with decent saturation
bright. The 1.5-inch LCD on the back is good, too,
though it does get a bit grainy and dark in low
ambient light levels. On paper at least, the FinePix F402 doesn’t
Smooth operator seem that impressive, but all that changes
The buttons on the back work well too. The
the moment you take it out of the box 5 PRO Saturated but neutral colours. The slow flash
mode balances well with the available light
6
conventional four-way navipad has been dropped in CON The SuperCCD does offer high sensitivity,
but with more noise and less shadow detail
favour of a smart-looking but less effective strip of
buttons, with the larger, central one operating
up/down, and smaller buttons to the side for different qualities to those of conventional CCDs, and and contrast, and shouldn’t need too much work in 2 IMAGE QUALITY
moving left and right. it’s not that easy to compare them directly. Right up your image-editor later on.
A three-way switch swaps between movie, close, you can see that the F402’s 4-megapixel The only area where the camera struggled was in
playback and stills mode, and during playback mode images don’t have the bite or detail rendition of reproducing reds. They were all vivid, but with
the F402 cycles between images reasonably fast, ‘real’ 4-megapixel shots, and that there’s a distinct almost no differentiation between shades (see the
and you can zoom in and pan around your saved granular effect in some areas and clear edge red sweatshirt in our Skin Tones performance panel).
images too, though the lack of a zoom switch sharpening artefacts. The F402 may not look cheap on paper, but its
means you have to toggle between ‘zoom’ and The detail rendition lies around halfway between main metal-built sub-compact rivals are less capable
‘pan’ modes on the navipad. that of a typical 2-megapixel camera and a 2-megapixel models. The F402’s excellent design
It all adds up to a camera that feels well made 4-megapixel model. It’s roughly equivalent to a and build quality, plus its startlingly slim dimensions,
for the money, is extremely compact and is 3-megapixel camera’s results, which is about what are very appealing – a great pocket camera. 5 PRO Images are contrasty and saturated at normal
viewing distances, with neutral colour rendition too
6 CON Fine detail isn’t quite up to the standard of a
1
4-megapixel camera – it’s more like a 3-megpixel
FUJIFILM FINEPIX F402 FULL SPECIFICATIONS

A small, neat Features 70 1
Sensor 2.1-megapixel, 1/2.7-inch 2.1MP SuperCCD Image storage xD-Picture Card
and beautifully Images 1
86
Verdict
Image size 2048 x 1536 Batteries Lithium-ion rechargeable, NP-40

Lens Fujinon f3.2 fixed focal length lens Battery life 140/400 shots (monitor on/off) Build 93 1
Focus
Exposure modes
Program AE
AC adaptor
Software
Supplied
FinePix Viewer, ImageMixer VCD
made camera Value 90 1
85%
Metering 64-zone Weight 125g (without battery or card)
Monitor
AE compensation
+1.5 to -2EV in 0.3EV increments
Dimensions
Transfer
77mm(w) x 69mm(h) x 22mm(d)
USB FINAL
Flash
Video output
No
OS Windows 98/Me, 2000 or XP. Mac OS8.6-9.2.2,
OSX 10.0.4 or later
The limited specs make the F402 SCORE
look dear compared to other entry-
Movie recording 320 x 240 at 10fps with sound
Other features Docking cradle, soft case level snapshot cameras, but there’s
so much more to it than that
2
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WORTH EX-S2 LUMIX DMC F7 DIMAGE X IXUS V3
A LOOK £300/2MP £260/2MP £300/2MP £400/3MP

NIKON COOLPIX 4500
Price £550
Resolution 4 megapixels
Memory 16MB Compact Flash
Contact Nikon 0800 230 220 www.nikon.co.uk
SAMPLE IMAGES ALL THESE IMAGES CAN BE FOUND ON OUR CD
Nikon CoolPix 4500

Not so much point and shoot as twist and shoot. Nikon’s evergreen swivelcam design
DIGITAL
CAMERA
MAGAZINE
gets a bigger CCD and a cosmetic revamp
W
here other digital camera makers seek to
* ON OUR
COVERDISC make their models look as much like
conventional cameras as possible, Nikon took
a bold step with its CoolPix 990 model, the predecessor
to the 4500. Digital cameras don’t have the long and
complex optical paths of film cameras, and the
designers used this to separate the lens from the LCD
panel with a swivelling pivot halfway along the body. 3
VIRTUAL TOUR
The great thing about this design was it enabled you 1
Try before you buy! Rotate and to compose shots at waist level, overhead, and
view this camera on-screen with practically round corners. And despite feeling like
plasticky gimmicks about to fall to bits, the 990/995
models were extremely robust, durable and practical.
ON OUR It’s nice to see Nikon continuing with its ‘swivelcam’
C WEBSITE series, since its 5-megapixel models have reverted to a
much more mainstream camera shape. Other cameras
OPINIONS & SHOPPING
Post your views, see what other like the PowerShot G2/G3 and 5-megapixel Nikons
readers think then buy this camera! have flip-out, rotating LCDs, but on the swivelling
digitalcameramagazine.co.uk/ CoolPix 4500, you use your fists not your fingernails. It’s
review/reviewproduct.asp?RGN
=2&RCN=13&RPN=170&sp=&v=3 instantly practical in a way that flip-out LCDs aren’t. And
that swivelling joint will last for decades. 7 LENS
7 SWIVEL JOIN
The 4500 has a
The 4500’s 4x zoom pivot halfway along
DIGITAL RANGE Leaner and fitter? is carried over from the body. You won’t
NIKON COOLPIX Cosmetically, the 4500 is a much more svelte, upmarket

the 995, but here it
delivers sharper,
believe how useful
and practical this is
machine than its predecessor. Under the skin, though, crisper results until you try it
5700
Price: £900 rather less has changed. It does boast an improved
Megapixels: 5 processing system, which offers greater speed and
improved image quality, while the designers have we need time to adapt to the new controls, but initially a little quicker to get to the 4500’s aperture-priority,
5000 sneaked in a new (and useful) scene mode with no at least they seem to represent some odd decisions. shutter-priority, manual and scene modes, but the
Price: £700
fewer than 16 different settings. There’s also a miniature joystick (thumbstick?) that’s replaced the old
Megapixels: 5
panoramic mode now, (though there’s no dedicated Shrink to fit model’s conventional navipad is really rather horrible.
4500 panorama stitching software). For a start, the playback mode is no longer accessed by The directional movements are a bit vague and you
5
Price: £550 The 4500 swaps the rugged plastic ‘combat’ styling a single rotary power/mode switch. Instead, it’s have to press down vertically to ‘OK’ menu choices
Megapixels: 4 of the CoolPix 995 for a sleeker, more compact shape operated by a little button on the back and you have to and actions. It takes quite a firm push and it’s too
4300 and a hard, black, magnesium alloy finish. It’s not only go through the Quick Review mode (which displays a easy to push it to one side.
Price: £400 better-specified than its predecessor, but cheaper and thumbnail image within the main LCD image). It takes The latest 5-megapixel Nikons have controls which
Megapixels: 4 better-finished too. longer and it’s more awkward. are a bit smaller than you want them to be, and the
885 At least, that’s how you start off feeling. However, The LCD is smaller too. The old model’s 1.8-inch 4500 seems to be following this trend. There’s no
£ Price: £350 along the way the designers have also made display has been dropped for a 1.5-inch unit that’s very reason for it, since this is hardly a miniature camera.
5 Megapixels: 3.3 modifications to the control layout that offer less obvious
benefits. We’re so used to the outgoing 995 that maybe
bright and crisp, but still smaller.
A rearrangement of the mode functions does make it
It does feel good to use, though. The controls are
well-made, and the magnesium alloy body feels very

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NIKON COOLPIX 4500
COMPARE TEST SHOTS PERFORMANCE
2 SKIN TONES
7 CONTROLS TO RIGHT
A reorganised
control layout leaves
the Nikon’s top
plate uncluttered,
but some changes
are not welcome
1
5 PRO A healthy-looking neutral colour balance in
most conditions and fine detail rendition
6 CON Flash shots and those taken in overcast

lighting can make your subjects look a little pale
2 OUTDOOR SHOTS
7 7 THUMBSTICK 7
LCD What is it with digicam MENU BUTTON
The LCD is smaller makers? They drop Why are we showing
than the CoolPix navipads, which work you the menu button?
995’s, but it’s good
and sharp, so you
well, and use widgets
like this thumbstick,
Because you’ll be
seeing altogether too 5 PRO Sharp detail, accurate exposure and less
prone to overexposure and burn-out than some
probably won’t worry which don’t much of it, we fear
6 CON Can err on the side of underexposure, which
may mean some tweaking later
classy. The 4500 starts up a lot faster than the old work and when to use them – this camera comes with the 4500 are clearly crisper, sharper and
2 INDOOR SHOTS
995, and doesn’t sound so much like a tractor. with an excellent 164-page English manual. punchier than the 995’s which was, it has to be
Zooming is still a bit slow, but image playback, Although the EV compensation control is quite said, a little woolly in that respect.
zooming and panning is quick. The shutter release is handily placed, the 4500 still suffers from some of Compared to the other cameras on test this issue,
one of the 4500’s strong points, with a very well- the control problems of its predecessor. In particular, the CoolPix 4500 comes out pretty well. Detail is
weighted two-stage action that helps – along with it’s a camera with very powerful photographic well defined – its detail rendition is clearly better
than that of the FinePix F402, the Ricoh Caplio RR-30
and even the FinePix M603 – and tones are smooth
On the swivelling CoolPix 4500, you use with little granularity. Its images are perhaps a
your fists not your fingernails. It’s instantly

fraction dull and undersaturated compared to the
5 PRO Slow flash balances well against ambient
light and the pop-up flash appears when needed
6
rest, but it avoids the lurid reds of the two FujiFilm CON Could do with a slightly wider-angle zoom –
it’s a tad on the long side (38m equivalent)
models and produces commendable neutral results
practical in a way that flip-out LCDs aren’t all round. It’s possibly got a very slight tendency to
underexposure now and again, but that’s no bad 2 IMAGE QUALITY
the camera’s eminently ‘grippable’ design – to controls – exposure bracketing, white balance thing in a digital camera, prone as they are to
keep camera shake down to a minimum. bracketing, best shot selector and more – which are highlight burn-out.
The menus have been redesigned too, and while buried just that little bit too deep in the menus. In terms of image quality, build quality and
they don’t offer much that the old camera didn’t, general speed, the CoolPix 4500 is a significant step
the whole experience of using them is a bit more Visibly better up from the 995 – and it’s cheaper too. We still have
satisfactory – if you can live with that little But what about the image quality? The increase in misgivings about the controls and layout, though,
thumbstick, that is. resolution from the 3.3 megapixels in the 995 to the and CoolPix fans might find the changes frustrating.
The new scene mode is particularly effective, 4 megapixels in the 4500 might not sound much, First-time users, though, will simply marvel instead
offering not just a good range of modes, but also but we reckon 4-megapixel CCDs do a better job at the instant practicality of Nikon’s long-running
clear explanations as to what they’re for, how they than 3.3-megapixel chips, size for size. Shots taken swivelling design. 5 PRO Very sharp, crisp, well-exposed results. One of
the best 4-megapixel digital cameras
6 CON Why didn’t Nikon slot a 5-megapixel CCD into

one of its all-time classic camera designs?
NIKON COOLPIX 4500 FULL SPECIFICATIONS 1 A classic design

gets a well-
FEATURES
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Verdict
Sensor 4-megapixel, 1/1.8-inch 4.13MP CCD Other features Swivelling body

Lens Nikkor f2.6-5.1 4x zoom Image storage Compact Flash BUILD 94 1
Focus
Exposure modes
Auto, manual, 2cm in macro mode
Program AE, shutter-priority, aperture-priority,
Batteries
AC adaptor
Lithium-ion, EN-EL1
No deserved update VALUE 83 1
manual, scene modes Weight 360g (without battery or card)
91%
Metering
Monitor
Matrix, centre-weighted, spot, AF spot
Dimensions
Transfer
130mm(w) x 73mm(h) x 50mm(d)
USB FINAL
AE compensation
Flash
Software Nikon View 5, Photoshop Elements 1,
FotoStation Easy Nikon’s done a great job with the
SCORE
Video output NTSC or PAL OS Windows 98SE/Me, 2000, XP, Mac OS9.0-9.2,
Movie recording 320 x 240 at 15fps with sound OSX 10.1.2 or later image quality, build and finish, but
the 995’s successor isn’t necessarily
2
NIKON COOLPIX CANON CASIO OLYMPUS any better to use
WORTH 4300 POWERSHOT G3 QV-5700 C-50
A LOOK £400/4MP £700/4MP £600/5MP £550/5MP

FUJIFILM FINEPIX M603
Price £700
Lens f3.2 2x zoom
Memory 16MB xD-Picture Card, 512MB MicroDrive
Battery Life 130 shots
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FujiFilm FinePix M603

The digital camera that thinks it’s a camcorder? The high-quality movie mode isn’t the
only thing that sets the M603 apart from its peers
F
ujiFilm’s camera range seems to be settling
* ON OUR
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inexpensive entry-level snapshot cameras like
the A203, the high-end professional models like the
FinePix S602 and the FinePix S2 Pro and, in the middle, 2
we’ve got the company’s innovatively-styled
‘multimedia’ models.
And if one camera deserves the multimedia tag, it’s
this one. Other cameras include movie modes, but only
VIRTUAL TOUR at a limited resolution of 320 x 240 pixels and a flickery
Try before you buy! Rotate and frame rate of 15fps. The M603 just blows them all
view this camera on-screen with
our unique virtual reality tour away. With 640 x 480 resolution and a 30fps frame rate,
this camera comes close to the quality of digital
ON OUR camcorders. And with the inclusion of a MicroDrive slot
C WEBSITE and 512MB card, it can keep recording at these
resolutions for minutes on end. You even get a handgrip
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casioqv5700
Strange but true
The high-quality movie mode and MicroDrive slot
aren’t the only unusual things about this camera.
Apart from the unusual upright shape, it comes with a
DIGITAL RANGE giant 2.5-inch LCD screen. The resolution is no higher 7 7
FUJIFILM than that of many rivals, at 118,000 pixels, but its BLUEBAR
That horizontal blue
LENS
The 2x optical zoom
sheer size makes it an impressive compositional divider doesn’t has a modest range,
S602 PRO
aid for still photographs and a great playback device indicate any clever and could do with a
Price: £700 bit more at the
kind of swivelling
Megapixels: 3.3 for movies. lens design telephoto end
The LCD needs to be good for composing images,
S602 mind, because there’s no optical viewfinder at all.
Price: £595
Not a problem if you generally compose shots on And the fact is that, photographically, the M603 is no unusual design features. The zoom rocker works
Megapixels: 3.3
the LCD screen anyway, but could be a bit of a worry more sophisticated than the little F402 – reviewed on conventionally enough, but the camera defaults to the
M603 as far as battery power is concerned. The quoted life page 28. It’s got 50% more resolution, but otherwise mid position rather than the wideangle setting, which
5
Price: £700 of 130 shots isn’t bad at all, though, and it only the same combination of program AE and modest EV we found to be a bit of a nuisance. But right next to it is
Megapixels: 3.3 drops slightly when you’re saving images on the compensation and white balance controls. Enough for the shutter release, also shaped like a rocker switch. This
F601 MicroDrive. Certainly we had no complaints about mildly creative snapping, but not much else. may prove more convenient for movie shooting, and it’s
Price: £400 battery life during our tests. The M603 is bulkier than you might be expecting, not a big disadvantage for stills, but it does takes some
Megapixels: 3.3 The M603 looks pretty pricey given its specifications, and while it’s got a nice metal finish, the quality is a bit getting used to and it’s easy to get the wrong switch
F401 despite that high-powered movie mode, but the patchy here and there, with a couple of untidy panel with your fingers (zoom instead of shutter and vice
£ Price: £330 inclusion of a 512MB MicroDrive accounts for a good joins on the top plate and a rather plasticky control versa) if you don’t look first.
5 Megapixels: 2.1 part of the cost. You also get a Picture Cradle for your
desk and a soft case to carry the camera round in.
‘bubble’ on the right.
And it’s on the bubble control that you’ll find other
Startup is pretty fast, but accompanied by some
loud electronic twittering that you’ll want to turn down

FINEPIX M603
COMPARE TEST SHOTS
2 SKIN TONES
7 7
3
CONTROL BUBBLE LCD DISPLAY
This control ‘bubble’ The giant 2.5-inch LCD
houses the zoom is bright and crisp and
rocker and – unusually perfect for both 4
5
– the shutter release composition and PRO Very good skin tones which always look
movie playback warm and radiant. Your subjects will be flattered
6 CON Tones can get a little too warm at times, and

the M603 struggles to separate strong reds
3 2 OUTDOOR SHOTS
7 7
NAVIPAD MODE SWITCH
With a proper four- With just three
way navipad, the modes – still,
M603’s menus and
stored images are
playback and
movie – the M603 5 PRO Simple but not dumb! The exposure system
does a great job, even shooting into the light
easy to navigate is easy to grasp
6 CON Lens flare can creep in with strong
backlighting, and bright highlights easily burn out
The still image quality is more of a mixed bag.

2 INDOOR SHOTS
The movie quality is the M603’s unique FujiFilm’s SuperCCD chips do indeed deliver better
quality than their native resolution suggests,
feature, and the results are a step removed but not as much as the final file size promises.
from novelty movie modes The 6-megapixel images from the M603 offer
about the same level of detail rendition as you’d
expect from a typical 4-megapixel camera. Close-up
on the Setup screen. Focusing is reasonably rapid There are no scene modes, but the M603 does such detail is compromised by some granularity, edge
too (again, with the same loud confirmation bleeps), a reliable job in plain program mode (as do most effects and softness.
but the zooming speed is a bit disappointing, other digital cameras) that it’s debatable whether Colours, exposure, contrast, saturation and overall
5 PRO Good balance between flash and ambient
lighting in slow synch mode. Pleasing flesh tones
6
especially since the lens only has a 2x zooming you need them. colour balance are very good indeed, though, CON Watch for camera shake in low light until you
get used to the odd shutter release position
range anyway. The M603’s control layout is logical and easy to and prints viewed at normal distances look
The M603 is reasonably quick in playback mode,
cycling between images in a couple of seconds, and
understand – it doesn’t do that much anyway, let’s
face it – and it’s a nice camera to use. But while it’s
terrific. The only flaw is the rather over enthusiastic
treatment of reds – a trait the M603 shares with 2 IMAGE QUALITY
the giant display more than makes up for any by no means a big camera, it’s not one you can slip the cheaper F402.
sluggishness here. Zooming in and panning is pretty into your shirt pocket either. You’re paying a lot here for the high-quality
quick, too (more irritating bleeps – where is that movie mode and the bundled MicroDrive. The
Setup menu?). Quality and value M603’s photographic options are very modest
The movie quality is the M603’s unique feature, and indeed, so it’s just as well its point-and-shoot results
Settings the results are a step removed from the novelty are so reliable. The fact is that you can get the same
The menu system can be left set to Auto, where movie modes of most digital cameras. You can quality and a whole load more features for a lot less
you’ve got little to do except choose the image size transfer them to your computer and start building money than this, even within the FujiFilm stable, so
or set the self-timer, or Manual, where you can them into your home movie projects without the that movie mode is the only good reason to choose
adjust the EV compensation and white balance. expense and faff of DV capture cards, too. this camera. 5 PRO Bright, colourful results that nearly always
look great without any Photoshop tweaking at all
6 CON The fine detail starts to disintegrate as you

approach 1:1 pixel magnification on-screen
FUJIFILM FINEPIX M603 FULL SPECIFICATIONS 1 A great

camcorder,
FEATURES
IMAGES
80
82
1
1
Verdict
Sensor 3.1-megapixel, 1/1.7-inch 3.3MP SuperCCD MicroDrive slot

Lens Super EBC Fujinon f3.2 2x zoom Image storage xD-Picture Card and MicroDrive BUILD 81 1
Focus
Exposure modes
Program AE
Batteries
Battery life
Lithium-ion, NP-60
130 shots
but is it a VALUE 70 1
Metering 64-zone AC adaptor Supplied
great camera?
78%
Monitor
AE compensation
+1.5 to -2EV in 0.3EV increments
Weight
Dimensions
210g (without battery or card)
64.5mm(w) x 93.3mm(h) x 31.6mm(d) FINAL
Flash
Video output
NTSC and PAL
Transfer
Software
USB
FinePix Viewer, ImageMixer VCD
SCORE
Movie recording 640 x 480 at 30fps OS Windows 98/Me, 2000 or XP. Mac OS8.6-9.2.2,
The M603 is far too expensive for
Other features LCD cover/shade, docking cradle, soft case, OSX 10.0.4 or later what it does as a still camera, so you
have to really want that movie mode
2
FUJI FINEPIX SONY OLYMPUS CASIO
WORTH F601 CYBERSHOT DSC- CAMEDIA C-50 QV-R4
to make it worth buying
A LOOK £400/3.3MP P9 £430/4MP £550/5MP £400/4MP

REVIEWS 4 MEGAPIXEL COMPACT
CANON POWERSHOT G3
Price £700
Memory 32MB Compact Flash
Battery life 450/1,050 shots (monitor on/off)
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Canon PowerShot G3
Canon’s PowerShot G2 has been a long-standing digital camera classic, so we were
looking forward to the new G3 with bated breath…
W
e needn’t have kept our breath quite so
* ON OUR
COVERDISC bated. The original PowerShot G2 was packed
with smart photographic features, but wasn’t
the best-handling camera in the world, proving a bit
heavy and, thanks to its shape and smooth metallic
finish, hard to grip. Canon’s had a year and a half to
come up with something better, and the G3 isn’t quite 3
what we were expecting.
With a boxier, retro style it actually feels a little
VIRTUAL TOUR
Try before you buy! Rotate and more cheaply made than the G2, and has more
view this camera on-screen with
buttons, knobs and dials than ever. True, it’s a little 1
more wieldy, and the finish and shape are a little less
slippery than the G2’s, but it’s no masterpiece and it’s
ON OUR going to have to have a lot of new stuff under the
C WEBSITE bonnet to overcome these first impressions.
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Post your views, see what other What’s new?
readers think then buy this camera! The list of new features does sound impressive, mind.
digitalcameramagazine.co.uk/ At its heart the G3 has a new DIGIC processor, while the
review/reviewproduct.asp?RGN
=2&RCN=13&RPN=170&sp=&v=3 optical zoom range has been upped from 3x to 4x (the
extra is added at the telephoto end of the range). The 7 LENS
The first-rate f2.0
7 CONTROL WHEEL
aperture and shutter are now separate mechanisms, lens now has a 4x Some may find the
DIGITAL RANGE apparently, offering a wider range of combinations – zooming range, new control wheel
CANON notably high shutter speeds/wide apertures – and an

though the lens barrel
now obscures part of
useful, but it’s too
small and the action
optional ND (neutral density) filter cuts down the light the optical finder is far too light
EOS D-1S
Price: £7,000 entering the camera. This means you can shoot very
Megapixels: 11 bright scenes or use wide apertures in bright daylight.
If you want to experiment with time-lapse The G3 has to be good, mind, because there’s little back, and find it takes up more space than it did before.
EOS D60 photography, there’s now an ‘intervalometer’ which lets wrong with the performance of the G2. The older That’s how the G3 feels.
Price: £2,000
you set delays anywhere between 1 and 60 minutes, camera has a great LCD, good lens, minimal shutter lag Some of the changes to the control layout are quite
Megapixels: 6
while the new orientation sensor rotates portrait shots. and – as far as everyday shooting is concerned – a very puzzling. The G2 had a nice, meaty Record/Off/Playback
POWERSHOT G3 This improves auto-exposure accuracy (the light patterns similar set of features. switch mounted around the main mode dial. It worked
5
Price: £700 are analysed differently for vertical-format shots) and well and used little space. With the G3, the controls
Megapixels: 4 ensures the date-stamping is always the right way up. What’s not so new? have been separated into two smaller, fiddlier dials.
POWERSHOT S45 There are other additions and enhancements, The G3 starts up faster than the G2, but seems little On the back, meanwhile, a new ‘Func’ button pops
Price: £550 including a new 345-point ‘Flexizone’ AF/AE system quicker in practical terms at composing, adjusting, up a menu offering quick access to the ISO setting,
Megapixels: 4 but, at heart, the G3 is still very similar to the older G2. saving and reviewing shots. If you include controls and picture effects, bracketing, file format/quality and flash
DIGITAL IXUS V3 It offers fully-programmed auto-exposure, shutter- ergonomics in your assessment of ‘speed’, then it gets power. It seems smarter and slicker until you work out
£ Price: £400 priority and aperture-priority automation and full manual harder still to see where the G3’s advantages – if any – that the system on the old G2 didn’t actually need any
5 Megapixels: 3 mode. This is in addition to a selection of ‘scene’ modes,

extended slightly in this latest model.
lie. You know how it is when you decide to tidy your
lounge/office/study? You take everything out, put it
more button presses, just different ones.
The G3 does make the exposure compensation and

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ANCIENT
MONUMENTS
How to photograph Britain’s
megalithic landscape
9 WAYS
CAPTURING SPORT TO BETTER
The right place at the right !
time – snapping athletes at ANIMAL SHOTS
the ‘critical moment’
Fold out this
guide to find
out how
ICY WATERS
Watch winter melt away –
Hear me roar! NO REFLECTIONS
we head to Scotland in WILDLIFE Wildlife photographer Peter Smart goes in search of big
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Peter shot these African lion cubs through

search of winter landscapes perspex with the lens against the surface to
game – at Marwell Zoo… prevent reflections
ost wildlife photographers dream of welfare. They’re also excellent places for wildlife so wait for feeding times in order to get livelier
M photographing big game on safari in photographers to hone their skills. pictures. Many parks publish breeding
Africa. But the costs are high, and often it While some parks have drive-through facilities, programmes on their websites, enabling you to
remains just a dream, requiring budding David enabling you to shoot from the safety of your plan a visit in order to get pictures of newborn
Attenboroughs to seek alternative opportunities vehicle with few barriers between you and your cubs or family groups.
for photographing exotic animals such as lions, subject; others permit foot access on fenced Elephants don’t require mesh fences, which
tigers and elephants. pathways. Either way, you’ll rarely be closer to makes them easier to photograph. However,
When Longleat Safari Park opened in 1966, it the animals than ten feet. Just as you would their dark colouring can confuse a camera’s light
WILDLIFE PARKS broke the mould of the caged zoo, putting its photograph animals in the wild, your best friends meter, so take a reading off average tone
Dream of shooting game in wild animals into open enclosures more closely are a monopod, a telephoto lens (the longer the surroundings to get this right. Less dangerous
Africa? There are good resembling their natural habitats. Now, as well as better) and a good dose of patience. animals, such as giraffes, antelope and zebras,
alternatives closer to home being places of entertainment, wildlife parks are The most popular subjects are big cats. have more visible enclosures, and often can be
at the forefront of animal conservation and Lions and tigers tend to sleep during the day, approached closer.
Detach this section and take it on your travels!
8 8 8 WILDLIFE INSPIRATION [w] www.zoowatch.freeserve.co.uk, ZooWatch is a UK web portal to sites related to zoological parks and gardens in the UK and Ireland. Its website is a resource for educa
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MY MUM
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E LIGHTING TIP MARWELL ZOO
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AND ME
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Mother and
EVEN LIGHTING baby groups always
Animals with textured or patterned make good pictures
coats such as tigers, leopards and
zebras are best photographed in even
light. This ensures that you don’t lose
THE EYES
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the detail, and means you can have a
Opposing
AIM FOR MARWELL
go at capturing abstract shots. By car: Leave the M3 at Junction 11 or the
sight lines
M27 at Junction 6. Marwell is six miles
create tension here
south of Winchester on the B2177.
HOW TO GET THERE
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DETAILS
8
WHAT IS IT?
Marwell Zoo is geared up for
photography – it even has its own
photographic society. The 100-acre
site was founded in 1972 and you’ll
find three species of zebra, six species
of cat, giraffes, white rhino and the
largest collection of antelope in the UK.
HOW MUCH DOES IT COST?

Adults £10, OAPS £8.50, children £7.
LOCATION
Marwell Zoological Park,
Colden Common, Winchester,
Hants, SO21 1JH.
FACILITIES
Family restaurant at zoo. Marwell Hotel
near main entrance.
OPENING HOURS
Winter hours, 10am – 4.30pm; summer
RED PANDA
EXPERT ADVICE hours, 10am– 6pm. There’s a
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ABOVE LEFT The red panda is native to Tibet and

Valentine’s day special from Feb 14.
Obstacles: one problem is how to spends most of the time in trees, making it
remove fences between you and difficult to photograph
INFO
your subject. A telephoto lens set www.marwell.org.uk
to maximum aperture should
Peter
throw these out of focus enough
SPOT-ON FOCUS
8
specialises in
wildlife shots. ABOVE RIGHT Focusing in close with a long lens will
to make them invisible.
Visit his help you lose the bars surrounding more dangerous
website at
animals such as this jaguar POST-SHOOT
8
www.peter- Best results: as a rule of thumb,

smart.com
position yourself less than half the
distance in front of the fence as CROP IN TIGHT
the subject is beyond it (you need You may not be able to get as close to
to be sure you know how to focus animals as you would like, but there’s
at this aperture). Switch to manual nothing to stop you cropping your
to avoid auto-focus latching onto picture tighter after the event – as long
the fence, and focus on the eyes. as the overall image quality will take it.
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Flash will reflect on mesh or CULTURED VULTURE Be prepared to trade off size for quality
perspex screens so don’t use it Don’t forget the rest. The lions and tigers may be the at times.
straight-on. most dramatic subjects but other species are equally
as attractive to photograph – and sometimes easier!
ation, conservation and tourism

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IMAGES © Laurie Campbell 2003
AVIEMORE
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AIM FOR AVIEMORE
By car: Take the A9 to Aviemore, then go
east towards the Great Wilderness area of
the Cairngorms for six miles to Loch
Morlich in the heart of Glenmore Forest.
HOW TO GET THERE
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LANDSCAPE CHANGING SEASONS
Laurie Campbell watches winter melt away in the Scottish Highlands
DETAILS
8
MELT WATERS 5 BLUE LIGHT
5
s the days lengthen and temperatures
A rise, the last vestiges of winter start Sharp focus throughout is critical in this Shooting in the shade in overcast light
WHAT IS IT?
Bought by the Forestry Commission in
Cairgorms river scene. Focus about one- has produced a cold blue-ness,
to melt into spring. What better time to 1923, Glenmore consists of 8,600
third back and set the aperture to about f22 emphasised by selecting white balance
capture the transformation of solid into acres of woodland and open hillside
encircling beautiful Loch Morlich. The
liquid as frozen streams and pools trickle burns are particularly good because the
loch is fed by countless small burns,
back to life? In its solid form, ice can be dull waterlogged, peaty soil around them making it good hunting ground for
and opaque, but as it melts and thins, its drips constantly and often forms icicles – icy subjects.
new-found liquid transparency sparkles as it sometimes with grasses embedded in them
catches the light. – or icy splash areas as the water has WHERE TO GO?
Glenmore Forest Park.
You’ll find fertile shooting locations occur frozen. Follow them slowly uphill from a
anywhere that small streams splash their river or loch, keeping your eyes open for LOCATION?
way across rocks on their way downhill to attractive icicles or hanging curtains of ice Near Aviemore, Highlands, Scotland
join larger water courses. Scottish Highland full of texture from the bubbles of air PH22 1QU.
trapped inside them. It’s useful to have a
WHAT ARE THE FACILITIES?
macro lens for this, along with a tripod Café and toilets at the visitor centre
suitable for rough ground. But don’t unsling on the lake (9am – 5pm daily), plus a
your tripod until you’ve found your shot caravan and camp site.
‘freehand’, allowing the creative juices to
flow unencumbered.
COST?
BEST RESULTS
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Free, but pay for parking.

Look, too, for contrasts between running
water and snow covered rocks or built-up WHEN TO SHOOT INFO
ice. Use your tripod and slow-time Back or side lighting make thawing ice www.aviemore.co.uk/glenmoreforest
gleam against a dark background. Even Glenmore Caravan & Camping Site,
exposures (anything from half a second
so, it’s best to shoot on a bright but www.forestholidays.co.uk for details.
upwards) to blur the water and give a sense
overcast day to ensure highlights don’t
of new movement as well as increasing overexpose. We recommend you don’t
depth of field. Use neutral density filters (or use flash because it’s likely to bounce POST-SHOOT
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a polariser) to retard the exposure if straight back at you and create ugly,
specular highlights.
conditions are too bright. UNDEREXPOSED PICTURE?
Larger rivers may have too large a body WHAT TO FOCUS ON Snow and ice can often deceive camera
of water to have frozen sufficiently during a exposure meters, leaving you with an
Trying to focus close on plain snow or
underexposed picture. If you didn’t
cold spell, but thin sheets of floating ice will ice can be difficult – both eye and
compensate for it in-camera, try
often form in the shallows. Sometimes autofocus sensors have nothing to latch
making a new Layer of your picture
onto. Gently lay a twig or something
raised above the surface on rocky supports, then blending this with the original in
similar in the shot at the appropriate
the frayed edges of the ice present an Screen mode. Adjust the effect with the
SLOW STREAM
5
place, focus on this, then remove it.
percentage slider to suit.
A slow shutter speed of 2 to 4 secs blurs almost lace-like pattern as it’s eaten away
the water to a rushing milky white by the passing water.
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to fold this booklet: about the shoot, and we'll reply! more blurring. fill the frame.
with your name & a few words
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Slower speeds will produce background and the zoom to
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STEP 3: Now fold STEP 2: Fold this side STEP 1: Detach sheet that ‘frozen in time’ effect. depth of field to blur the
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of ancient history
the best places to snap a little bit
Britain’s neolithic past. We reveal
into spectacular symbols of
a pile of moss-covered relics
5 Turn
how to get there
■ Detailed maps of
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motion blur.
the shutter speed to remove
shallow depth of field, and vary
able to widen the aperture for
of manual control – you want to be
offers enough in the way
SIDE B: ANCIENT
2 MONUMENTS
Make sure your camera
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zoo or wildlife photos
ways you can improve your pet,
your camera)! We reveal nine to fill the frame with your pet.
ANCIENT MONUMENTS/ANIMALS
animals for fun (with way past bars at the zoo, or use it
5 Shoot
distractions. Zoom your
■ Dos/don’ts Use the zoom to crop out
■ Equipment ZOOM LENS
02
■ Tips
INDEX: our tripod recommendations.
See our reviews in issue 4 for
need to support the camera.
long lens, you’ll
SIDE A: HOW TO
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If you are using a
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TOPICS COVERED this is so you can capture the
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Given that animals infested beast you end up This will produce the sharper or 200 – and support the would apply if photographing your pet is likely to do
never do what you with isn’t exactly what you images you want. Don’t worry camera. Widen the aperture – a person. If you’re permitted, something interesting.
want, when you want had in mind. about the results being slightly say to around f/4. The why not get an interesting For example, it could be
or how you want, how do you So zoos and wildlife parks grainy, this should not be a advantage of blurring out the expression by giving the a cat getting ready to pounce,
8 have some advantages for the problem if your aim is to background is that it makes it animal a treat and capturing or a dog stealing something
go about getting decent
pictures of the furry blighters? photographer these days: produce standard sized prints. harder to tell that you have the results? Try to capture the from the table. You will know
One way is simply to animals are looked after and been photographing at the zoo animal in the middle of some your pet’s behaviour better
visit a zoo or wildlife park. may well be in better TRY SHALLOW DEPTH or park. action – maybe try to get a than anyone, so be ready –
condition than the ‘real’ thing.
4 OF FIELD photograph during bathing images like this are the best.
Not only are you guaranteed
a selection of suitably Plus, setting up and taking the If your camera supports it, try THINK OF IT AS time. And focus on the eyes.
shots is easier – if the animal’s narrowing the depth of field
6 A PORTRAIT GET THE
exotic, fierce if slightly
pose is wrong or the weather so your subject stands out The best way to get a cracking TELL A STORY 8 ANGLE RIGHT
bored creatures, but they
is wrong, simply wait until you against a blurry background. animal picture, is to use some
7 Keep your camera to As with portraits of babies and
aren’t going to wonder off or
start ripping up rivals just as get the shot you want. Try a slower ISO setting – 100 of the same techniques you hand and get ready to snap if children, try to get down
you’re about to snap off that to eye level with your pet
great shot. USE THE ZOOM and photograph from that
2 The aim is to try to get USE THE FLASH angle. If your pet is distracted
Alternatively, you can
good close-ups, while being
5 A quick burst of fill-in by your close proximity,
always stay home and
photograph the dog. The careful that the cute monkey flash on a dull day will help use the zoom so you can
brighten colours and add life to back off a little.
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secret here is knowing your you’re trying to photograph

animal and being prepared. doesn’t steal bits of the the animals’ eyes. But you can
Nothing is as dull as a camera. Use your camera’s also use the flash to PHOTOGRAPHING
zoom to get in close to the photograph animals in display 9 FISH
photograph of the pet asleep
in its basket because you action and fill the frame. This cases. The problem here is that If you have an aquarium
weren’t ready for that narrows the field of view and most display cases are perspex and want to snap off
cracking picture of it jumping crops out distracting clutter. It and will reflect the flash back some pictures of the more
out of the upstairs window. also removes any items that at you if you are not careful. spectacular specimens, you
suggest you are photographing To avoid this, move to one have two options. The first is
at the zoo – like cage bars or side and shoot at an angle. The to switch off the flash and
ZOOS VERSUS signs – helping you get a light will be reflected by the hold the lens right up against
1 SAFARIS natural look. perspex at an equivalent, but the glass – the tank
You may dream of capturing opposite angle. For example, if illumination should be enough
that lion powering across the USE A HIGH ISO the animal is at 0 degrees and if the glass has been cleaned.
African plains, but that’s 3 SETTING you are shooting at 45 degrees Alternatively, use the same
outside the reach of most Set your camera’s ISO setting to the animal, the flash will be technique as you do if you
people’s budget. And the to 400. Animals on the move reflected at -45 degrees – that shoot animals in perspex cases
chances are, when you get produce blurring at lower ISO is, in the opposite direction at the zoo – use the flash but
the close-ups, the reality and shutter speeds. Set your and well away from your lens. from an angle.
of the blood-caked, tsetse-fly shutter speed to 1/250sec.
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Ancient monuments in Wiltshire and Somerset

The best ancient monuments are in Wiltshire and Somerset, from landmarks like Stonehenge, to locations like Glastonbury Tor. Here’s where to go…
ontrary to popular belief, the history of Britain

C started bit before 1066. Television TAKEN FROM LANDRANGER MAP 184
programmes like Time Team on Channel 4 have
tapped into a desire to know a bit more about our
heritage, and the popularity of ancient monuments
at Stonehenge and Avebury have shown how much
people enjoy visiting ancient monuments.
There are so many outstanding megaliths,
monuments and burial mounds, in and around
Wiltshire that we’ve decided to focus on this area
this month.
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BASED ON ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPPING © CROWN COPYRIGHT, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED: AM134/02
2 1 STONEHENGE
AGE 5,000 years
Originally there were some 80 stones circling an inner ditch (the
‘henge’). You can find Stonehenge located at the junction of the
A303 and the A344 but for such a world famous site, its tourist
support facilities are very poor.
ENTRANCE £4 to view the stones. Private access can be arranged
before 9am – fill in a form at www.english-
heritage.org.uk/Filestore/visits_and_events/pdf/private.pdf
MORE INFO www.britainexpress.com/History/Stonehenge.htm
2 3 WEST KENNET LONG BARROW 2 4 GLASTONBURY TOR

AGE 5,600 years
TAKEN FROM LANDRANGER MAP 173 The remains of an ancient ‘long barrow’ burial mound, West Kennet Long Barrow
AGE 2,000 years
Glastonbury Tor rises 158 metres
lies on Overton hill, between Marlborough and Beckhampton. Over 100 metres
from the Somerset Levels, and dates
2 2 SILBURY HILL
long, at the east entrance there are several huge standing stones. Walk past these
from around 5AD, when it was most
around 10 metres into the ground, and you will come upon five stone-lined burial
likely created as relief when the
chambers. When first excavated, the remains of 46 people were found and
AGE 4,000 years surrounding region flooded. In the
legends say there’s a ghost of a dog that is supposed to haunt the site.
Silbury Hill is only a 14th century, a Church was built at its
ENTRANCE leave the car in the car park and climb half a mile to the long barrow.
couple of miles from summit – St Michael’s Tower is the
MORE INFO www.stonepages.com/england/westkennet.html
Avebury. Located only surviving part. Why not visit
between Marlborough Glastonbury Abbey and Chalice Hill.
and Beckhampton in ENTRANCE Access to the Tor is
Wiltshire, at 130 feet unrestricted, and you’ll find there are
high it’s the largest views of the surrounding Somerset
man-made mound in Levels – ideal for creating a
Europe. Despite being panorama. Park in Glastonbury and
excavated four times catch the park and rise to the Tor
since 1776, no (April-Sept).
remains have been MORE INFO
found. In fact, nobody www.nationaltrust.org.uk/scripts/
knows what Silbury nthandbook.dll?ACTION=PROPERTY&
Hill was built for… PROPERTYID=346
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ENTRANCE It’s illegal
to climb the hill but
there is a car park
nearby from which
you can take photos.
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MORE INFO
www.britannia.com/
wonder/emsilbry.html

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RESERVED: AM134/02
Getup&go to… UK ATHLETICS BIRMINGHAM
©Alan Brown
INDOOR ATHLETICS
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AIM FOR BIRMINGHAM
By car: Take the A38 (M) from Junction 6
of the M6 then follow the signs.
HOW TO GET THERE

DETAILS
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SPORT ON YOUR MARKS... WHAT IS IT?
Missed out on tickets for Birmingham’s
World Indoor Championships? Athletes
will be competing for places at the WIC
Alan Brown takes to track and field in search of passion and athletic skill at the AAA Indoor Championships at the
same venue on 1st – 2nd March.
hotographing sport is about these move to outdoor tracks from April. OVER THE TOP
P
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capturing the ‘critical moment’, Inner field events such as the javelin In this shot, the peak moment in the LOCATION
action has been captured Birmingham NIA, King Edward’s Road,
whether it’s the peak of the action – and shot are difficult to access, but track
Birmingham, B1 2AA.
a goal scored, the race won or a events and jumps are better sited, making warm-ups to see which way athletes face
fleeting emotion on a competitor’s them easier to capture with a 200mm lens at the critical moment, and position WHEN IS IT OPEN?
face. The secret to success is knowing your from spectator seats. yourself accordingly. From 1st February for five weeks,
sport well enough to anticipate that Once you have decided on the event, You’ll find grace and beauty, 10am – 4pm.
‘moment’, and being in the right place to seek out the best spot to capture the passion and humour in every event.
record it. highlights. Try the start and finish line for Look for oddball poses and interesting Tickets £2 to £4.
Big names may only grace events like sprints; mid-track for hurdlers; and behind juxtapositions between competitors and
the World Indoor Championships, held in the pit so you can see the faces of their surroundings, and don’t be afraid to WHAT ARE THE FACILITIES?
Parking, food and drink available.
Birmingham (14th – 16th March), but competitors coming towards you for the get down low for more dynamism.
you’ll find rising stars at interclub league jumping events. The repetitive nature of INFO
meets almost weekly around the country. many events gives you plenty of BEST RESULTS www.ticketmaster.co.uk
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Mostly held indoors during the winter, opportunity to get it right – watch the Telephone 0121 200 2202
ESSENTIAL KIT
A monopod and a 400 ISO setting (800
for indoors) are essential. Forget about
auto-focus unless you have fast
predictive focusing. Instead, pre-focus on
POST-SHOOT
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the spot where you think that moment

will occur, and shoot as athletes hit this GET CREATIVE
point. The shutter delay on many digital A little creative blur can lift an
cameras may hinder this, but practice otherwise so-so sporting picture.
makes perfect. Try saving your picture as a new
layer, then applying a little linear blur
HIGH JUMP (Filters) to this and blending it with the
For best results, the peak of the action original layer. Experiment with the
in the high jump and pole vault occurs blending modes and percentages for
as athletes clear the bar. At this point the best effect, using the eraser where
they hang for a split second, enabling you want the sharper original layer to
SPLASH OF COLOUR SHOOTING STARS you to freeze the action with slower remain dominant.
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A long lens and restricted colours You'll often find home-grown talent shutter speeds.
make this a strong graphic image at many of the smaller meets
ATHLETICS INFORMATION [w] www.ukathletics.net, The official website of UK athletics with details of forthcoming meets
Getup&go to… MEGALITHS IN WILTSHIRE
CONTROL FLA
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Hide the sun behin
Beware of looking
may damage your eyes
Ancient inspirations
AVEBURY SHADOWS
LANDSCAPE Pete Martin roams the megalithic landscape
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Early evening is perfect when shooting in the south-west

of ancient Wiltshire quadrant at Avebury. Long shadows emphasise the contours
here are a thousand prehistoric Long Barrow and the mound known as Silbury
T monuments around the British Isles. hill (both pre-date Stonehenge and Avebury).
Perhaps the largest concentration is in Wiltshire, West Kennet’s use as a burial place is well
of which Avebury and Stonehenge must documented, but Silbury’s original purpose still
surely be the most famous – and the most isn’t known.
photographed. Dating back 4000 years, All these massive structures are best
and sited in landscapes as evocative as the photographed early or late in the day (and year),
stones themselves, these potent reminders of when the sun’s low angle brings both stones and
our ancient heritage make strong and the surrounding downlands to life. Early morning
atmospheric images. mists are particularly photogenic and you’ll find
At 427 metres in diameter, Avebury is the stones clear of people – a perennial problem
reckoned to be the largest stone circle in the at Stonehenge, in particular.
world, and partially encloses the village at its
heart. It’s not as well known as nearby
BEST RESULTS
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Stonehenge and many of the original stones

have long since gone, but unlike that monolithic LENS HOODS
rock pile, you can wander freely among the Low light throws surface detail into
stones at Avebury. sharp relief, but can cause flare unless
you hide the sun behind the stones or
The wide angle is likely to be your most
otherwise shade it – lens hoods are
useful lens at Avebury, enabling you to close in rarely useful at such times. We suggest
on single monoliths, such as the Barber Stone, you pay particular attention to the sky, PENTRE IFAN
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while still showing their context within the huge which is likely to play a large part in TOP There are many photogenic megalithic monuments
ditch and bank that encircles the stones. By pictures, especially at sunset. scattered across most of Britain. This one is Pentre Ifan in mid-
Using filters: enhance the blue with a Wales, captured in the early morning light
contrast, the power of Stonehenge is best
polariser and use graduated filters to
captured with a telephoto lens from a distance, reduce any contrast. But remember that BACKLIGHT
8
taking care to find locations that offer good the more glass, the greater the chances BOTTOM Shade your lens from the sun when shooting with low
separation between the stones. of flare. backlighting to avoid flare
A short walk away you’ll find West Kennet
MONUMENT INFORMATION [W] www.henge.org.uk Want to visit some ancient sites but are looking for something closer to home? Check out the list of English, Scottish and Welsh sites
WILTSHIRE
8 AVOID CROWDS
AVEBURY
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You’ll avoid the crowds if you go in the early morning
for sunrise. Luckily the sheep add to the scene!
IMAGES ©LAURIE CAMPBELL

AIM FOR MARLBOROUGH
By car: Turn off the A4 onto the
A4361, six miles west of Marlborough at
West Kennet.
HOW TO GET THERE

ARE MISTY MORNINGS
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nd a stone to keep flare under control.
Backlighting and an early morning mist

into the sun with a long lens or you
have reduced this Avebury image to
monochromatic tones
8 DEEP BLUE
Use a polariser to deepen the colour of
the sky and saturate it. This will add a
couple of stops to the exposure so use a tripod
with long lenses
DETAILS
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WHAT IS IT?
Like Stonehenge, 25 miles to the south,
LOW SUN Avebury is a henge monument,
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Stonehenge is often closed when the meaning it is surrounded by a ditch and

sun is at its best. Go prepared with a bank. The stone circle – there are
high tripod and a short stepladder to enable you several here – is just part of a larger
to shoot over the fence with a long lens complex that includes a ceremonial
avenue of stones leading away to a
former sacred site on Overton Hill.
Many consider it a more attractive place
to visit than Stonehenge. It’s managed
by the National Trust and is freely
accessible 365 days a year.
LOCATION
Avebury stone circle.

Museum £4, car park £1.
WHAT ARE THE FACILITIES?

National Trust shop, café and toilets
open daily, plus a pub in the village.
INFO
www.megalithic.co.uk
POST-SHOOT
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DRAMATIC EFFECTS
Consider turning suitable colour
images into black and white ones
for more dramatic, atmospheric images.
Although you can simply desaturate
the colour or use the Grayscale mode in
your image editing program, you’ll get
better results using Photoshop’s
Channel Mixer (Image, Adjust) to
control the transition of the various
colour channels.
CANON POWERSHOT G3
PERFORMANCE
2 SKIN TONES
7
POWER SWITCH
The power switch/
record/playback dial
has been separated
from the exposure
mode dial
1
5 PRO The G3’s excellent exposure control and high
sharpness means that portrait shots come out well
6 CON White balance control needs to do more to

offset the cool morning light in this shot
3 2 OUTDOOR SHOTS
7 EXPOSURE 7 7 BUTTONS
MODE DIAL LCD A reshuffling of the
You can now save The flip-out swivelling controls has led to
two custom LCD is the same as the some ergonomic
shooting modes, outgoing G2’s. They’re improvements over
5
accessed via the useful, but not as the G2 but no great PRO High sharpness, a wide maximum aperture
exposure mode dial much as you think changes overall and an extended zoom range
6 CON Small controls cause a problem if you’re

wearing gloves or you’ve got to grab a shot quickly
white balance controls more accessible, via the

navipad, but otherwise it’s as if the Canon engineers
thumb. If you have to hold the camera one-handed
for any reason, you grip it that little bit tighter and
We’re not so sure about the G3’s white balance
control (see our Performance panel opposite), but its
2 INDOOR SHOTS
have just reshuffled the controls instead of coming your thumb squeezes the Menu button. exposure accuracy, contrast, saturation and sharpness
up with anything new. are all bang on. There aren’t many cameras, either,
The control wheel introduced to the top of the Sharp as ever which offer an f2.0 lens.
handgrip is especially bizarre. It lets you cycle The G3 has some significant enhancements over the We’ve spent a good part of this review moaning
through aperture or shutter values in the G3’s G2 in terms of features, of course, if not general about the PowerShot G3, but that’s only because
most of the improvements it offers over the
G2 have proved marginal indeed. They’re the
If you use the optical finder you find that a kind of thing that look great on paper but which
big chunk of the image in the bottom left-

you’d actually use once in a blue moon – like the
5 PRO The anti-redeye mode works well and even
close-up flash shots are well-exposed
6
time-lapse feature and the G3’s focus bracketing CON You shouldn’t have to resort to the menus to
switch the flash to slow sync mode
(yes, really). What many users will be looking
hand corner is obscured by the lens barrel for is a camera that’s actually better designed,
easier to use, more practical and with more 2 IMAGE QUALITY
various alternative AE modes, and move quickly handling. And have Canon’s engineers been able to accessible controls. Yet put the G3 side by side
through the various shortcut ‘Func’ menus, but it’s improve on the image quality, too? with the G2 and the older camera still feels better
too small, too free-moving and seems unnecessary. The G3’s images are certainly sharp, and maybe made and less cluttered.
The new 4x zoom lens is a clear advantage, of you might notice some difference next to shots If there was no such camera as the PowerShot
course, but what’s this? If you use the optical finder taken on the G2. Amongst 4-megapixel cameras, G2, we’d probably be full of praise for the G3. Its
you find that a big chunk of the image in the bottom few can match these results. It’s interesting that features and performance put it right at the front of
left-hand corner is obscured by the lens barrel. Did Canon hasn’t bothered to produce a 5-megapixel the 4MP pack, and the fat lithium-ion cell and
nobody notice this when they designed it? The G3 model and, given the quite small differences we’ve reduced power consumption make the G3 great for
shares an irritating design flaw with the G2, too, in been able to detect between the G2/G3 and 5- long expeditions, too. As a replacement for a modern
that the Menu button falls directly under your right megapixel cameras, maybe Canon has a point. classic, though, it’s a bit of a disappointment. 5 PRO Great exposure control, good contrast and
saturation and smooth tones
6 CON Small evolutionary improvements rather than

any big step forward…
CANON POWERSHOT G3 FULL SPECIFICATIONS 1 A good camera,

but overshadowed
FEATURES
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Verdict
Sensor 4-megapixel, 1/1.8-inch 4.1MP CCD Other features Timelapse photography, focus bracketing
Lens Canon f2.0-3.0 4x zoom Image storage Compact Flash BUILD 72 1
Focus
Exposure modes
Auto, manual, 5cm in macro mode
Program AE, Aperture-priority, Shutter-priority,
Batteries
AC adaptor
Lithium-ion, BP-511
Yes by its predecessor VALUE 73 1
Manual, scene modes Weight 410g (without batteries or card)
81%
Metering
Monitor
Evaluative, centre-weighted, spot, AF spot
1.8-inch TFT
Dimensions
Transfer
121mm(w) x 73.9mm(h) x 69.9mm(d)
USB FINAL
AE compensation
Flash
Auto, on, off, slow, second curtain, red-eye
Software ZoomBrowser EX, PhotoRecord, PhotoStitch,
RAW image converter, Photoshop 5.0LE The PowerShot G3 has many new
SCORE
Video output NTSC or PAL OS Windows 98/Me, 2000, XP. Mac OS8.6-9.2,
Movie recording 320 x 240 at 15fps with sound OSX 10.1 or later features, but it’s fiddlier and fussier
than the old G2. At this price, too, it’s
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0 EXPERT TIP a matter of minutes to split things up into a more Straight to video DVD Pictureshow is an excellent way of transferring
manageable form. Video clips can be plugged in just as easily, and your image collection into a format that anybody with a
RICHARD COBBETT For more ambitious projects, you can import music everything made easily accessible to your viewer via a DVD player can enjoy. The added ability to load in music
PC EXPERT
and play it over the top, or sit down with a microphone convenient DVD menu – enabling it to skip straight to and narrative gives your photographs a dimension you
CATALOGUING and record your own narration. It couldn’t be easier to the relevant parts. If you aren’t ready to dive into disc can’t get from prints, and provided
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early on, but files quickly multiply. on the screen according to how much you have to say – HTML documents, ideal for uploading to the web. suitably teched up, it’s the ideal
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CRUMPLER DIGITS SPORTY GUY 1.28

Price: £27.50
Contact: www.crumpler.de
This Australian bag is made out of the elegantly named ChickenTex, an artificial fibre that bears a striking resemblance to
nylon. External dimensions of 140 x 170 x 100mm contain a main padded compartment of 100 x 140 x 50mm (if
you’ve got an SLR or heftier old-school digital camera, the Crumpler range goes up to about twice this capacity). Made
from solid rip-stop nylon, the outer material feels tough – even a little bit too stiff for comfort. Although it comes with a
belt loop, the shoulder strap is more useful, with adjustable length and a strong Velcro quick-release fastening. The
zippered front compartment features two small pockets and one slightly larger one, plus a Velcro-secured mesh pouch
that claims to be anti-static, making it perfect for memory storage (although it suffers from having almost no padding).
A nice innovation is the elasticated loop for preventing your battery pack from bashing anything
82%
else nearby – always a worry when expensive memory cards and heavy cells share a space. FINAL
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The Crumpler Digits Sporty Guy 1.2 is well constructed, but the fact that you can’t seal the main
compartment means that it isn’t as weather-proof as other bags on test.
Smaller…
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WALLET 7CASELOGIC DC40
Price: £8
Contact: www.lowepro.com Price: £10
If you’ve Contact: www.casedirect.com
already got a
camera bag
from your film
The DC40 is the smallest camera bag on test, measuring just 100 x 135 x 70mm
photography externally. Its internal dimensions aren’t a lot smaller, meaning its padding isn’t as
days, you just extensive as the more expensive bags. The thin front padding is especially worrying, as
need a digital upgrade. Your first
move should be to organise and
this is prime territory for knocks and drops. The DC40 is constructed from an artificial
protect your memory cards. The leather material called Koskin that’s unlikely to fool many people, but does have the
D-RES 4 memory card wallet can advantage of being water resistant and tough. A detachable shoulder strap and belt loop
store two small card cases plus one
large (PCMCIA-sized) card in its
are included and – unsurprisingly at this price – all the fittings are made of plastic.
mesh pockets. An affordable and There’s a small zip-fastened rear pouch, which is OK for cards but you wouldn’t want
well-designed essential. to store bulky batteries in it. The main compartment is also zip-fastened, with a fold-
over protective flap. A neat design touch is the internal flaps that prevent the front cover
from folding all the way out, thus preventing your camera from slipping out if you open
And Larger… the bag too quickly. Caselogic is the only company on test to realise
LOWE PRO D-
63%
that you’ll be putting a bag anywhere else but on your body, with FINAL
RES 300 a plastic reinforced water-resistant panel sensibly protecting the
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BRIEFCASE base of the DC40. Larger versions of this bag are also available.
Price: £50
Contact: www.lowepro.com
The D-RES
CENTON DIGICASE SMALL8

300 briefcase
from Lowe
Pro is
designed
especially for Price: £10
the itinerant digital photographer,
with dedicated padded
Contact: www.jessops.co.uk
compartments for your laptop,
digital camera, batteries and This leather-style case has two compartments, protected by a fold-over flap with a plastic fastener. The shiny, fake
memory cards. Also tucked into its
1200D ballistic TXP water-resistant
leather feels very cheap – perfect for concealing an expensive camera but unlikely to wow your fellow snappers. A
casing are plenty of spaces for shoulder strap is provided but its 100 x 140 x 50mm size is just small enough to make the single belt loop a viable
notebooks, tickets and magazines. option. All the strap fittings are plastic and not especially tough. The main compartment is split into two and, as the
Carrying options for the D-RES 300
are DryFlo mesh handles or a divider isn’t removable, the largest camera this Digicase can accommodate is much smaller than its
63%
detachable strap with non-slip size might suggest – check the fitting before you buy. The Digicase’s front compartment has a slip-in FINAL
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shoulder pad. pocket and another zippered mesh pocket for cards and batteries. Centon does offer a two-year
warranty on its Digicase bags, which should be long enough if they’re as tough as it claims.

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SAMSONITE TREKKING DIGITAL LINE D-F/V18

Price: £21
Contact: www.samsonite.com
The solid lines and ugly leather patches of the 285g D-F/V1 are unlikely to win any style awards, but its 130 x 155 x
100mm durable 600D polyester exterior conceals some great design features. Carrying options are good, with two belt
loops, a central padded hand strap and an adjustable shoulder strap complete with non-slip padding. It’s worth noting
that all the fittings are metal, which should aid longevity. A thin rear zip pocket doesn’t seem to have a lot of utility, but
the main compartment opens towards the user. The main space (110 x 130 x 55mm) is fully padded, with an optional
divider attached by a couple of Velcro strips. The lid doubles up as a mesh pocket with Velcro fastenings, which is ideal
for keeping your cards out of harm’s way. Lift the front flap and Samsonite has stuck in an address
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label for those people who are naive enough to hope that someone discovering four hundred FINAL
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quid’s worth of portable electronics will track down their rightful owner. Build quality is good,
although a couple of the zips felt somewhat flimsy.
7CENTON DIGICASE MEDIUM

Price: £13
Contact: www.jessops.co.uk
The medium Digicase on test has a similar design to the small version, with two main compartments and a snap-
fastened fold-over flap. The shoulder strap provided is thin and comes with all-plastic fittings, and might not be up to
extended real-world wear and tear. There’s also a single belt loop. Although the external dimensions of 120 x 160 x
58mm sound fairly generous, the main compartment is split in two – designed more for a stylecam and spare battery
than a normal-sized camera. The compartment’s zip-fastened lip has a zip-fastened mesh pocket on its underside, which
a good location for stashing your memory cards. The Centon digicases have some of the thinnest padding on test in their
main compartments. That’s not necessarily a problem because it keeps the weight
65%
down, and internal space up. If it’s just a matter of surviving a fall from your waist, FINAL
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all the bags on test will be fine. If a longer fall or sharper impact is likely, opt for
more substantial padding, and be prepared to lug about a larger, heavier bag.
CRUMPLER DIGITS SPORTY GUY 0.68

Price: £23
Contact: www.crumpler.de
Our second Crumpler bag is smaller and less expensive that its 1.2 brother, but
shares many of its features including its ChickenTex skin. The bag measures 110 x 150
x 80mm with an internal space of 80 x 120 x 40mm, making it suitable only for
smaller digital cameras and stylecams. There is a removable shoulder strap, but
the 0.6 is happiest worn on a belt, using a brace of cunning Velcro straps to attach
firmly at waist level. The main compartment has a non-scratch microfibre lining to
avoid damaging optical components, although there’s very little padding on the top Thanks to Jessops for the kind loan
fold-over flap. of the equipment for this feature.
A front compartment has room for memory cards and a battery or two, but there’s Check out its website at
www.jessops.com
no space for accessories. Build quality is excellent throughout – this is a tough little
case. And it’s notable for having relatively few seams. No matter how good the
stitching is (and the Crumpler’s is almost faultless), wear and tear
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generally concentrates on seams, so the fewer a bag has, the FINAL
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better. It’s a hefty price tag for such a small bag, but this is one bag
that won’t fall to pieces in a hurry…

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DIRECT PHOTO PRINTERS LAB TEST
Labtest
DIRECT PHOTO
PRINTERS
P
rinting your digital images at home is now as quality photo prints and crisp monochrome pages. They ON TEST
easy as investing in a good quality inkjet should be able to accept a range of paper sizes from PRINTERS
printer. This month we’ve rounded up six of envelopes up to A4, and work with all major operating
the best on offer and put them through the Digital systems and memory cards. Beyond this, you’re CANON
Camera Magazine labs. If you use a manufacturer’s generally paying for print speed, build quality and extra S530D
inks with the recommended premium photo paper, features such as roll paper holders, built-in image Price: £250
even sub-£200 models can routinely deliver prints enhancers and bundled software. Inkjet printers at the
EPSON
that look almost as good – and should last as long – as top of this price range and above can handle larger paper
STYLUS PHOTO 915
silver halide prints from a commercial laboratory. But the sizes and often come with more than the standard four Price: £180
latest printers are aiming for more than just replacing inks, for improved colour reproduction.
trips to the shops, they’re now gunning for the PC on EPSON
your desktop. Features to look out for STYLUS PHOTO 925
Price: £220
All direct printing inkjets on test come with slots The headline features of any printer are its resolution and
into which you can slip the memory card from your print speed. Print speed is quoted in pages per minute HP
camera (and sometimes a cable from the camera itself), (ppm) but never believe manufacturer’s figures – there PHOTOSMART 7350
Price: £200
enabling you to print enprints, enlargements up to are no reliable standards and the performance you get
A4 size and panorama prints, without ever booting depends on the specification of your PC.
LEXMARK
up your desktop PC. Even if you don’t often print directly See the results section at the end of this lab test for Z65P
from the card, these printers offer an excellent way of an assessment of the printers’ real-world speeds. Price: £150
adding a decent memory card reader to your system Resolution is a more objective measurement, and 2,400
without taking up another USB port or more desktop x 1,200dpi (dots per inch) is the minimum you should SONY
real estate. look for in a photo inkjet. Printers with 4800dpi+ vertical DPP-EX7
Price: £370
Inkjet printers have never been more affordable, with resolution will generally only deliver that resolution on
the £150 to £250 range offering particularly good the correct media (normally the most expensive
value. Spend less than this and you could end available) and this is especially the case for the 5,760dpi
up with a very slow model (some cheap models can figures quoted for the Epson printers.
take 20 seconds to produce a page of text and many HP would have you believe that its PhotoRET IV
minutes to output a photo). technology gives it a major boost. PhotoRET is a
If you do any quantity of photo printing, your main layering system that puts down up to 30 dots of ink
expenses will be ink and good quality paper, so buying a on top of each other to build up smooth variations
budget printer won’t even save you much money in the in colour. Using less ink, it’s faster and cheaper than
long run. Printers above £150 should all deliver good full resolution printing and gives impressive results,

LAB TEST DIRECT PHOTO PRINTERS
TOP TIP Calibrate your monitor – print out a good colour image, open the same file in an image editor and adjust your monitor’s colour and contrast settings until they’re as identical as possible
? EXPLAINED CANON EPSON EPSON

DITHERING S530D DIGITAL
STYLUS PHOTO 915 STYLUS PHOTO 925
This is when the tiny ink dots CAMERA
MAGAZINE
making up a photographic image
are visible to the naked eye. It looks
worst when seen in solid colours
and blacks.
PRICE £250 PRICE £180 PRICE £220

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The S530D is the only printer on test to use separate It’s not unheard of to get six-colour printing at under A step up in terms of speed and build quality
cartridges for each of its four ink colours, plus a £200, but add an LCD, 5600dpi-optimised resolution from the 915, the six-colour Epson Stylus Photo
separate print head with a generous 256 black and compatibility with all the major memory cards, and 925 has four dedicated slots for memory cards,
ink nozzle. This saves both time and money: the Epson seems to be onto a budget winner. The 915 is an automatic roll paper cutter and a much improved
Canon prints at least twice as fast, and at half the never going to win prizes for build quality but it’s rare LCD screen that makes direct printing as easy as
cost of the other printers. It’s a shame the memory to find a roll paper holder on a printer at this price. it can be without actually seeing the image.
card slot is dependent on PCMCIA adaptors, because Although installation is simple and the printer is easy to Performance is solid rather than exciting, with
the Canon is excellent ergonomically, with a use, the print quality betrays its budget price tag, with technically proficient images nevertheless lacking the
comprehensive LCD menu system, straightforward only acceptable colour reproduction and very poor black spark of the HP and the speed of the Canon photo
driver and some useful bundled software. This printer is and white printing. printers on test.
a very safe choice.
KEY FEATURE 1 KEY FEATURE 1
KEY FEATURE 1 The 915 has two ink cartridges – black and colour The excellent 5cm mono LCD screen displays options
The control panel is a lot easier to use than it looks. (which contains five inks for increased photo realism). clearly via a logical menu system.
KEY FEATURE 2 KEY FEATURE 2 KEY FEATURE 2

Despite being the most expensive inkjet on test, the Memory cards are inserted via the PCMCIA slot. The roll paper adaptor fits either side of the paper
S530s comes with just a PCMCIA slot. A card with Adaptors for Compact Flash, Smart Media, Secure feeder and includes an automatic paper cutter and
Compact Flash adaptor is supplied. Digital, Memory Stick and Multimedia card are supplied. borderless printing.
5
72% 5
57% 5
63%
PRO Good, fast printing. FINAL PRO High resolution FINAL PRO Superb colour FINAL
Cheap ink SCORE SCORE printing. Good design SCORE
6 CON Single card slot

6 CON Average image quality
6 CON Expensive ink
although you can always choose full resolution printing if Lexmark is the only printer to come with two separate standalone device. Optional preview monitors are
you prefer. paper trays – one for plain and one for speciality paper, available for the Epsons (£80) and the Canon (£90), but
All but the Sony (whose maximum paper size is although the HP does have an extra slot just for 6 x 4- without the DPP-EX7’s interactivity.
6 x 4 inches) are A4 printers, and all but the Lexmark inch photo paper. The Lexmark and HP also have
are capable of printing borderless prints. This gives automatic paper sensors so that you can’t accidentally Printing from a card
you a huge range of paper size and printing options – print with ‘plain’ settings on expensive photo paper. The number and quality of slots that each printer offers
the best place to select these is in the printer driver. Although all the paper feeders (except the Sony) can vary widely. At the bottom of the pile are the Canon
The Epsons are notable for coming complete with roll take up to 100 sheets of paper, you should always feed and the Epson 915. These come with a single PCMCIA
paper holders. Roll paper is great for producing quantities glossy paper through one sheet at a time. slot, so you’ll need an adaptor to use any of the standard
of 6 x 4 inches (or a similar size) enprints and is the only All the printers on test except the Lexmark have some card formats. A Compact Flash adaptor is supplied,
way to output true panoramic prints, but it’s tricky to load kind of built-in LCD. The Canon, Epsons and HP have small and ones for other formats cost £20-30. Next up is
and use, and can be very difficult to get flat afterwards. monochrome displays that help you navigate menus and the DPP-EX7, which has a PCMCIA slot plus a dedicated
The Epson 925 comes complete with an automatic roll check print settings. These are handy but aren’t in the slot for Memory Sticks. The Epson 925 has slots for
paper cutter. same league as the Sony DPP-EX7. The DPP-EX7 comes Compact Flash, Microdrive, SmartMedia and Memory
Paper handling is more important than you might with a 3.8-inch touch-sensitive colour LCD display where Stick but top of the heap are Lexmark and HP, with four
think – you only have to have a couple of premium you can preview, enhance, zoom and crop images from slots that cover all of the above plus Multimedia Card and
glossy sheets mangled and the cost starts to mount. The the memory card before printing, making it a truly Secure Digital.

HP LEXMARK SONY 0 EXPERT TIP
PHOTOSMART 7350 Z65P DPP-EX7 MARK HARRIS
PRINT EXPERT
USING A DIGITAL
PHOTO PRINTER
Printing directly from a memory
card (and, in some cases, even
straight from your digital camera)
saves time booting up your PC
and loading graphics software,
but it does present some
challenges. First, you must know
which images you want to print –
not as easy as it sounds if you’ve
got 100-plus images on the card.
As the filing systems in cameras
and printers can differ, you can’t
always make a note of the image
number in playback mode – it’s
safer to print an index print of
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small, though, and printing three
or four index prints can take up
The 7350 is a very well thought out printer, sporting Lexmark has traditionally offered you a lot of printer for Two things about the Sony make it stand out from the
all the time you saved by not
four card slots, good connectivity, a paper sensor and a your cash, and its flagship Z65P continues in the same other printers on test – a built-in touch-sensitive LCD using your PC! After you’ve
cartridge system that lets you swap the black tank for vein. Four card slots accommodate all the major screen, and a £370 price tag. Using the screen to chosen your image, you still have
a second three-colour cartridge when you’re printing memory formats, including Microdrive, and the enhance, crop and add graphics to your images is easy to make sure it prints as you’d
photos. But it’s in pure printing performance that the 4800dpi resolution is as good as any on test. A good enough, but it’s much slower and more limited than like. Most printers let you select
HP truly impresses. It excels at both colour and mono driver and print monitor are ably assisted by the best PC-based image editors. The dye-sub process delivers the layout of the image, and a
printing with solid tones, really bringing subjects to life. software bundle on test – Adobe Elements 2.0. by far the strongest and most reliable colour images on few even let you crop or resize
Direct printing options are more limited than others on Although text printing is fast and reliable, the Z65P is test – but only on 6 x 4 inch paper. If you need the best the image. Some printers do
test, but the only fly in the ointment is its expensive let down by lacklustre photo printing and an inability to possible quality images without booting up your PC, have built-in image
ink cartridges. An excellent choice. print without using your PC – it’s the only printer on the DPP-EX7 is worth the investment; for everyone enhancement options, giving you
test without an LCD. else, a good inkjet is the logical choice. basic control over brightness,
KEY FEATURE 1 colour, sharpness and zoom, but
SOHO users won’t like the front feeding design – it KEY FEATURE 1 KEY FEATURE 1 these apply clumsily to the whole
takes up a lot of desk space compared with a vertical Having two paper trays is a useful feature, especially as The 3.8-inch colour LCD has a resolution of 320 x 240 image and are no substitute for
paper-feeder. the main one has an optical paper sensor. pixels. Use the supplied stylus to select options. working on the picture in an
image-editing package. Their
biggest drawback is that you
KEY FEATURE 2 KEY FEATURE 2 KEY FEATURE 2
can’t see the effects until you’ve
Separate card slots for the varying memory cards saves Separate card slots for the varying memory cards saves There are two memory card slots – one for Sony’s
actually printed out the picture –
on clumsy adaptors. on clumsy adaptors. Memory Sticks, the other for PCMCIA cards.
and used all that expensive ink
and paper. Direct printing
5
5
67% 54% 5
64%
PRO Excellent features and FINAL PRO Bargain software FINAL PRO Amazing photo printing. FINAL is best saved until you
build quality SCORE bundle. Best text printing SCORE Colour preview screen SCORE
understand your camera and
6 CON Average image quality

6 CON Poor colour printing
6 CON Limited paper range.
Very expensive
printer well, and learn exactly
how the image you see on the
digital camera LCD will come out
on your printer, or for low-res
There are two ways you can use the memory card brightness, colour and sharpness and all can add effects, different distances from each other, these four colours
images you need immediately.
slots in the printers to output your photos. The simplest is from sepia toning to ‘vivid’ colour enhancements. can reproduce the entire spectrum. The Epson printers
to use the printer as a card reader. Just copy the files to If you want to crop your images blind, the Canon, use six inks (extra cyan and magenta tones) to provide
your PC, then use an image editor to tweak them before Epson 925 and HP will let you, but only the Sony DPP- more accurate reproduction of skin tones.
sending them back to be printed. This gives you the EX7 actually previews the results. It also lets you zoom, In this test, all but the Canon and Sony have two
flexibility and power of your PC, as well as the security of rotate and add text or freehand paint (using the touch ink cartridges – one for black and one for the other
backing up your images. The Lexmark can only be used stylus). Printing the images generally takes a little longer colours. These cartridges have built-in print heads,
in this way. The second way is to leave your PC turned than from your PC as the printer has to source the data so that when you change ink cartridges you’re also
off and print using the controls on the printer alone (see from the memory card. changing the print head. This has the advantage that
the ‘Using a digital printer’ box). you shouldn’t come across head-related problems
The options that each printer gives you vary, but they Ink cartridges like patchy printing or smeary colours. However, it
all let you print an index print, select media and print All photographs, whether printed professionally, at home means that you really can’t re-fill empty ink cartridges,
layout (though usually not as wide a selection as you get or in magazines, rely on millions of tiny coloured dots to and it also keeps cartridge prices high. With the HP,
from your PC), plus DPOF (Digital Print Order Format) create the illusion of continuous colour tones. Inkjet you can swap the black cartridge for a Photo Print
printing, where you choose in the digital camera what printing is actually closest to colour magazine printing, cartridge containing lighter cyan, magenta and yellow
and how many images are printed. The Epsons and the using the same four colour inks – cyan, magenta, yellow inks for top quality photographic images (we tested it
Sony give you control over basic image parameters like and black (sometimes abbreviated to CMYK). When set at with this fitted).

TOP TIP Every time your printer is turned on, it cleans the print head ready for use. This ensures great results from the word go but also uses up precious ink every time
? EXPLAINED
CANON EPSON EPSON
DPOF S530D DIGITAL
STYLUS PHOTO 915 STYLUS PHOTO 925
CAMERA
Direct Print Order Format lets you MAGAZINE
use your digital camera to select
what and how many images
to print out.
PRINT RESULTS PRINT RESULTS PRINT RESULTS

Colour prints Despite a Colour prints The output Colour prints The 925's six-
shaky start with the first colour from the 915 was a bit of a colour printing produced
test image – weak colours and disappointment, especially images with excellent levels of
grain – the Canon shares the crown for considering that it’s a six-colour printer. detail and smooth tones, although the
image quality with the HP Photosmart 7350. The 915 is at its best when reproducing real-world colours were flat and a bit lifeless. The printer performed
images, with good levels of detail and faithful (if well with the tonal range test card, showing a good
Mono prints The second test image demonstrated slightly flat) colours. Colour separation was good and progression from rich black to strong, primary colours.
excellent tonal discrimination, with almost the full the overall effect was acceptable.
spectrum clearly visible. Edges were very sharp and Mono prints Despite these solid blacks, its monochrome
the greyscale was also impressive, with crisp tones and Mono prints Its monochrome print was the worst on performance left a lot to be desired. The 925 also
solid blacks. Text printing was superb – not up to laser test, packed with grain and dither, and suffering from sported a yellow tint with grain visible on the mono
quality but as good as inkjets get. an unpleasant yellow tint. Text printing was also poor – print, although it wasn't as bad as its little brother, the
bold type wasn’t solid black and all the text had very 915. The text pages again benefited from the 925's
Speed The S530D didn’t have to share the honours for blurry, jagged edges. unbeatable blacks, but it was let down by hesitant
print speed – its extra print nozzles zipped through our edges giving rise to some blurring.
test files in short order, with even the largest file taking Speed Print speed wasn’t bad at all. Although the
less than two and a half minutes to print. To give you largest colour printout took well over seven minutes, Speed The Stylus Photo 925 was middle of the road,
an idea of just how fast it was, the S530D could have the black and white image and text pages came in at a taking a hefty seven minutes to produce the largest
printed all its test files in the time it took its nearest respectable three and a half minutes and a minute and photo and taking nearly two minutes to chug through
rival to print just the large image! a half, respectively. the three text test pages.
3 IN DETAIL
SHARED FEATURES
All the printers on test connect via
USB, but the cable is never
supplied. All but the Lexmark have
an LCD display and all have at least
one slot for direct printing from
memory cards. All can print DPOF
JPEGs and index prints from
memory cards, but the Sony
printer can also print BMPs and the
HP can print TIFFs. All have The Canon S530D has four separate ink cartridges and proven longevity, it’s likely to remain a more expensive all the models on test need a USB cable. Buy a long one
extendable sheet feeders that can
a separate print head. This is a much more economical technology for the next few years. (around £10) for maximum flexibility in placement. The
store 100 sheets of plain paper up
arrangement – cartridges are around a third of the price Canon and HP printers both come with an additional port
to A4 size. All came with driver
software for PC and Mac. of others on test. It also allows the print head to be more Ease of use for connecting and printing directly from your Canon or
sophisticated and faster than its disposable rivals. The Before you decide on a printer, make sure you’ve got HP camera. The Epson 925 features an additional USB
Sony DPP-EX7 uses a completely different printing enough room for it. All the printers on test are a similar port for backing up your photos from the card to an
technology, called dye sublimation. Dye-sub printers use size (except the diminutive Sony) but, by the time you’ve external storage device (such as another digital camera)
four coloured films to deposit pigments directly onto the added paper feeders and output trays, they can take up if you’ve got the right cabling.
paper and are excellent at producing smooth, continuous a unexpected amount of your desk. The HP’s front- All the printers on test come with driver software for
tones and un-dithered colour. Because the print is built feeding mechanism takes up more space than the PCs and Macs and are simple enough to install, although
up from four separate films, a dye-sub printer with others. Inkjets are noisier than laser printers, but there the HP wizard is unnecessarily long-winded. The Canon
400dpi resolution (like the Sony) can produce prints as was little sonic difference between our test samples. For requires you to perform a manual print head alignment
sharp as a 1,600dpi inkjet. Although dye-sub prints have some reason, printers never come with interface cables – the first time you use it, the others all set themselves up

NEXT MONTH
; 3 WEB ALBUM
SOFTWARE
? EXPLAINED
HP LEXMARK SONY PPM
PHOTOSMART 7350 Z65P DPP-EX7 Although print speed is quoted
in pages per minute (ppm),
most of the printers take more
than a minute to print photo-
quality images larger than 6 x 4
inches. It’s best not to trust the
manufacturer's figures!
PRINT RESULTS PRINT RESULTS PRINT RESULTS

Colour prints The 7350 Colour prints Despite having Colour prints Testing a dye-
benefited from its flexible ink 4800dpi resolution, the Z65P sub printer alongside inkjets is
cartridge capabilities – its six had some problems with its like comparing a greyhound with
colour inks (no black) printing delivered photo reproduction. The colour prints a labrador – it’s bound to be faster on
first-class colour images as well as remarkable mono showed noticeable horizontal banding, muddy the straights but there’s no way it’s fetching your
prints. The 7350 showed its class on the largest colour colours and a slight yellow cast. While solid tones slippers. As a dedicated photo printer you would never
test card, with strong, vibrant colours, and little dither. were generally good, blacks could have been a bit use the EX7 for printing text, so we omitted that test.
more consistent. As expected, the Sony produced wonderful photo
Mono prints It was in the black and white test image images – fantastically vibrant, saturated colours without
that the 7350 performed head and shoulders above the Mono prints The Lexmark performed well in our text a hint of grain. Although the rock solid colours leapt off
competition – excellent contrast, solid blacks and scarcely test, though, with crisp lettering and substantial blacks. the paper, the Sony couldn’t quite match the fine tonal
a hint of grain or dither. Text printing was acceptable, discrimination of the best inkjets, with similar shades
although some blurring at the edges could be seen. Speed The Lexmark was the slowest printer on blurring into each other.
test for photo printing, taking over nine minutes
Speed Although it came a distant second to the Canon to produce the largest colour test card. Even the Mono prints The mono image had by far the richest
in print speed, the HP was no slouch, whipping out the monochrome image required nearly five minutes. blacks on test, but did carry a faint blue colour cast.
photo images in between three and a half and six But text printing was nippy as well as good quality,
minutes. It was curiously reticent to print text, though, and the Z65P finished seven seconds ahead of the Speed Because of the nature of the dye-sub printing
trailing the pack and taking an embarrassing two and a Canon, taking just over half a minute to produce the process, print time for all three images was very similar
half minutes to work through the three pages. three pages. – around two to two and a half minutes per print.
automatically. The printer drivers (accessed through Page least a basic image editor to enhance, crop and resize camera and photographic skills. This is especially true of
Setup in the application you’re printing from) are mostly your photos. The Canon comes with extra packages to the sort of real-world subjects that most photographers
clear and helpful, although the Sony’s is basic, with no help you browse and organise your portfolio and to shoot – natural colours and skin tones found these
advanced settings or help options. The Canon driver is create panoramas, but the Lexmark’s bundle is by far the printers at their strongest. It’s when you start demanding
especially comprehensive, with plenty of intuitive best, containing Adobe Elements 2.0 (PC/Mac) – the more of them – such as discriminating between similar
graphics and useful drop-down menus. When printing, winner of our image editor lab test in issue three. This is shades, high contrast scenes and monochrome prints –
the Lexmark and Epson print monitors are good, showing a flexible, powerful and easy-to-use package that that differences emerge.
ink levels and progress. The Lexmark even verbally normally retails for around £70, making the £150 Z65P a If pure image quality is your only consideration, you
informs you in a cheesy American accent when printing real bargain. should look no further than the Sony DPP-EX7 dye-sub
has started and finished. printer. Although it’s more than twice the price of some
All the printers except the Sony come with additional Test results of the other models, it shows the benefits of its film-
software to make the most of print options (such as All the printers we tested are capable of producing based technology – absolutely no dither, very smooth
multiple images on a page or printing to labels) and at good quality images that will do justice to your digital tones and bright, saturated colours that are

TOP TIP If you print directly from a memory card, keep a note of which settings and visual effects (vivid, enhance and so on) you used and whether or not you liked them
SPECIFICATIONS
AT-A-GLANCE
1 CANON
S530D
DIGITAL
CAMERA
MAGAZINE
EPSON
STYLUS PHOTO 915
EPSON
STYLUS PHOTO 925
HP
PHOTOSMART 7350
Price £250 £180 £220 £200
Telephone 0800 616 417 0800 289 622 0800 289 622 0870 547 4747
URL www.canon.co.uk www.epson.co.uk www.epson.co.uk www.hp.co.uk
Print technology Bubblejet with separate print head Inkjet Micropiezo Inkjet Inkjet with PhotoRET IV
Max vertical resolution DP1 2,400 5,760 5,760 4,800

C = Cyan M = Magenta Y = Yellow K = Black
Inks PC = Photo cyan PM = Photo Magenta CMYK CMYK PC PM CMYK PC PM CMYK PC PM
Ink tanks 4 2 2 2
Cards accepted/adaptor PCMCIA (CF adaptor supplied) PCMCIA (CF adaptor supplied) CF MD SM MS CF MD SM MS SD MMC
Direct printing – crop/zoom Y N Y Y
Direct printing – enhance image Y Y Y Y
Direct printing – add effects N Y Y Y
Max print width 216mm borderless 216mm borderless 216mm borderless 216mm borderless
Extra port Digital camera N USB USB
LCD Mono Mono Mono Mono
Size (mm) 430 x 301 x 188H 467 x 547 x 302H 492 x 290 x 228H 475 x 390 x 160H
ZoomBrowser, PhotoRecord, Image
Software Browser, PhotoStitch, EasyPhotoPrint PhotoQuicker, ImageFramer PhotoQuicker, ImageFramer Album printing, Photo Director
Roll paper holders, Roll paper holders and cutter.
Other Optional LCD preview monitor (£90) optional LCD preview monitor (£80) Optional LCD preview monitor (£80) Automatic paper sensor
Features % 61% 61% 71% 68%
Image quality 75% 50% 60% 75%
Print speed % 90% 65% 55% 50%
Overall % 72% 57% 63% 67%
indistinguishable (often better, in fact) than commercial on test for plain paper printing were the Lexmark problems (tram lines on prints, skewed images and so
silver halide prints. But the initial expenditure is matched and the Canon, both of which had solid, sharp text on) with any of the printers.
by very high running costs – £1.50 for every 6 x 4-inch without the blurring of other models (notably the
print is lot more than it would cost to have your images Epson 915). Conclusion
printed via an online service or on the high street and Printing an A4 colour photo used to be a good excuse Surprisingly, there wasn’t a strong correlation between
the range of paper sizes is very limited. to go and make a cup of tea, and inkjet print speeds the number of inks or the quoted resolution and the final
The six-colour HP produced the best colour photo print, remain frustrating, except at high resolutions. The print quality. Far more important seemed to be build
packed with vibrant colours, good contrast and very clear winners were the dye-sub Sony and the Canon quality and clever design features, such as the Canon’s
little dither, but the four-colour 2,400dpi Canon also S530D, which zipped through our test files in half the separate print head and the HP’s ability to swap its black
did very well, with superb colour precision and lovely time of the other inkjets, thanks to its neat print head cartridge for additional photo colour inks. If you do want
sharp output. The same two printers also made the best design. The remainder had very similar performance, to print directly from a memory card, the Sony with its
greyscale prints, combining crisp blacks with controlled taking around seven minutes for the largest file and four colour LCD touchscreen is the only model that can truly
grain. While the Epson Stylus Photo 925 showed reliable, minutes for smaller images. Only the Lexmark bucked be called standalone. The most flexible direct printers are
technically accurate printing, it was let down by poor the trend, taking over nine minutes on the big picture – the ones with LCDs and dedicated slots for the major
monochrome results. and then zipping through the text pages even faster than formats – the HP and Epson 925. But direct printing has
The sub-£200 models earned the lowest marks the Canon. so many drawbacks (tiny index prints, not being able to
for image quality: the Lexmark suffered from noticeable We couldn’t test lightfastness of the resultant photo see what you’re doing and the inevitable waste of
horizontal banding on many prints and the Epson prints, but current opinion is that if you use only the expensive ink and paper) that these models should be
915 tended towards weak colours and excessive grain recommended premium photo paper and inks for each seen more as a space-saving combination of card reader
and dither. While you’ll probably use your printer for printer, inkjet prints should last at least 15 years and and printer than as an alternative to traditional desktop
photo printing, good text output is important, too. Best probably a lot longer. We found no paper handling printing from your PC.

HOW WE TESTED
THE PRINTERS
e tested the printers using four printers’ black and white reproduction.
LEXMARK
Z65P
SONY
DPP-EX7 W identical test files – three
standard test card files and one
All three photographic test files were
printed at maximum resolution onto the
MS Word file consisting purely of text. manufacturer’s recommended glossy
£150 £370 The first colour JPEG test card replicated a premium photographic paper using
typical photographic scene, containing a original inks. No paper was recommended
01628 481 500 08705 111 999 selection of natural skin tones and subtle by Lexmark, so we used Canon paper.
www.lexmark.co.uk www.sony.co.uk variations in light tones and colours. It The text page contained different font
featured a high level of fine detail. sizes and styles and was meant to replicate
Inkjet Dye sublimation The second TIFF also had plenty of detail, a standard real-world document. This was
4,800 403 but we chose it for its graded colour boxes printed at standard resolution on 80gsm
and series of black stripes. The colour boxes bright, white plain paper.
CMYK CMY showed how good the printer was at The prints were assessed blind for colour
2 Dye sub roll depicting tiny differences in tone and accuracy, sharpness, grain and dithering. We
brightness. The stripes – vertical and also measured the time taken to produce
CF MD SD SM MMC MS MS/PCMCIA horizontal – tested printing accuracy: if they each print. We then rated the features that
N Y started to smear or blur together, it showed each printer has – resolution, connectivity,
poor resolution. number and type of card slots and so on.
N Y The third photo TIFF file was a greyscale Finally, we combined these figures,
test card, containing both a series of weighting image quality at 40%, features at
N y
monochrome tone boxes and real-life 40% and print speed at 20%, to arrive at an
216mm 102mm borderless scenes. This was designed to test the overall percentage rating for each printer.
N N
N Colour with preview BLACK CARTRIDGE COST £s

445 x 533 x 331H 242 x 267 x 87H
Adobe Elements, Fotoscale None
Second paper tray, automatic paper sensor Gloss/matt finish, colour touchscreen LCD
56% 61%
55% 73%
50% 53%
54% 64%
COLOUR CARTRIDGE COST £s
VERDICT
W
hich printer you opt for will depend on two want to splash out too much and won’t be outputting
things: your budget and how much photo- colour photos every day.
quality printing you intend to do. The overall winner is the most expensive (£250)
If you’re dipping a first toe into digital photography, of the inkjets to buy – and yet probably the cheapest
the Lexmark Z65P (£150) is a tempting choice. Not a overall thanks to its low running costs. The Canon
direct printer as such (you need a PC to print from a S530D has modest 2,400 x 1,200dpi resolution and LARGE TEST CARD TIME
memory card), it nevertheless has slots for all the major only a single PCMCIA slot, but produces reliable colour,
formats, doubling as a flexible card reader. Although its mono and text prints, with superb tonal discrimination.
photo printing isn’t great, it’s a whizz at text and comes Its separate print head means that ink cartridges are
bundled with Adobe Elements 2.0 (which sells for well under a tenner each and that print speed really
around £70). is exceptional.
Spend an extra 50 quid and you can get the HP If money is no object, the Sony DPP-EX7 at £370
Photosmart 7350. Superb colour and mono printing, delivers wonderfully rich, saturated colour. However,
a clever swappable ink arrangement and good paying £1.50 for each 6 x 4-inch print – with no
connectivity are only let down by expensive inks (up to ability to print on larger paper or text – will deter all but
£30 for a colour cart). This is a good choice if you don’t the perfectionists.

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“I enjoyed a trip on the Trans-Siberian and Trans-Mongolian train. I took a Fujifilm FinePix 4700 camera with me”
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02 Photographed by:
Keshan
Location: Dubai
Camera used: Canon
Powershot S40
03 Photographed by:
Sunil Gupta
Location: Fisherman's Wharf,
San Francisco, US
Camera used: “I used a
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settings after getting an AF
lock on the seagull. The
picture was cropped and light
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204 Photographed by:
Sally Pik Shan Yeung
Location: Mitre Peak, Milford Sound,
South Island, New Zealand
Camera used: Canon Powershot A40

Fred Courtie
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Location: Montreal, Canada
Camera used: Canon Powershot G2

Nigel Cloutt
Location: Eden Project, Cornwall
Camera used: Ricoh RDC-6000

Stephen Wilson
Location: Temple at Karnak, Egypt

Jatin Patel
Location: Grand Canyon
05 Camera used: Canon Ixus 300 08

09 209 Photographed by:
John Marmon
Location: Thailand
Camera used: “I used a Nikon F90x
and then the images were scanned
onto Kodak Photo CDs. Now I also
have a Nikon D100, which is great.”

Ian Bedford
Location: Sunset at Pigeon
Point, Tobago
Camera used: Nikon Coolpix 775

Delmar L Hepperly
Location: Philadelphia, US
10 Camera used: “I have a Canon G2
and produce 32 x 42-inch fine art
photographs on archival paper
from France and process them
on a $100 thousand machine
called an ‘Iris’. I believe this is the
first time this method has been used
by a photographer.”

Nigel Hayden
Location: Oslo, Norway
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EMAIL US! Send in your life – see opposite!
01
MEET WARREN FAIDLEY
Born in ‘Tornado Alley’, USA, Warren is

the world’s only full-time storm
chasing journalist and photographer.
His breathtaking extreme weather
images have appeared in National
Geographic, Scientific American, Life,
Time and USA Today. Warren’s film
and video footage have also been
used in Jurassic Park and Buffy
The Vampire Slayer, as well as in
videos by artists such as Sheryl
Crow and Paul McCartney. In 1997,
Warren became the first man ever
to capture a tornado on 35mm film
and acted as technical consultant for
the blockbuster movie Twister.
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Day in the life

Tornadoes, hurricanes, lightning storms and hail – it’s all in day’s work for storm chaser, Warren Faidley
hasing storms is a 24 hour a day, seven and producing his own storm forecasts. Some truck. But, for the most part, Warren reckons his
C day a week occupation – you never

know when the next one’s going to
days involve frantic chases across the plains in
Archangel, his fully-loaded sports-utility vehicle,
job is pretty safe: storms 20 miles across are easy
to predict, he argues, and most of the time he’s
hit. For Warren this means plenty of preparation which contains his still, movie and video cameras in more danger of having a car smash with the
and a willingness to go whenever and wherever plus the electronics, radios, computers and radar legion of amateur storm chasers who career
the storm takes him: he has separate crates he needs to keep pace with the storm he’s around in their own trucks, than he is of being
containing the photo, measurement and tracking tracking. The truck even has a rollcage, plus caught off-guard by the weather.
equipment he’ll need for each storm type. aluminium covers that prevent the windscreen When it comes to capturing his images,
In spring you’ll find him chasing tornadoes in from shattering when hit by 100mph hailstones. Warren needs to work fast. He typically uses
the central plains of Middle America. In summer "I’ve had some pretty close shaves," he says cameras that can shoot 20-30 frames per second
he’ll have travelled west to cover local forest fires "Once during Hurricane Andrew I made the and he needs masses of resolution – 90MB or
and lightning storms, and by autumn he’ll have mistake of sticking my hand out of the window above – if he’s to charge $10,000 a shot for iconic
moved east, capturing the hurricanes that batter to see how strong the wind was, only to have it shots like the one used for the promo poster of
the coast every season. cut to pieces by the glass flying through the air." Twister. It’s shots like that which keep him doing
Ninety per cent of Warren’s day can be spent He’s also been struck by lightning and had a what he does – a regular day job in an office just
simply waiting, studying internet weather sites twister form so close to him that it shook the wouldn’t suit Warren at all… 03

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01 Wild thing
Warren used a long exposure to
capture this majestic lightning storm
from an Arizona mountain.
02 It’s a twister
A twister hits the ground in Tornado
Alley. Warren often does his own
weather forecasting so he can tell
05 where and when they’ll hit.
03 King of the road

Warren usually works alone from his
truck, dubbed Archangel, which is
packed with storm monitoring and
photography equipment. During the
height of the season, however, he
08 can assemble a full crew comprising
4-12 people.
09
04 Storm warning
Lightning storms are often an early
indication that a tornado is on its way.
06 So too is baseball-sized hail, which
has hit Warren’s truck so hard that it’s
smashed the windscreen.
05 Fighting fire
When he’s not shooting fires, Warren
can be found putting them out – he’s
a fully qualified firefighter.
06 Supercell
Warren captured this majestic
supercell tornado in Pampa, Texas in
May 1994. The year before he
captured seven storms in a single day.
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07 Windy city
Warren took shelter in a garage to
10 capture this shot of Hurricane Andrew.
08 Lightning strikes
Warren got so close to this lightning
storm in Arizona that he was knocked
to the ground by a lightning bolt.
09 Trail of destruction
The aftermath of a tornado that struck
a town in West Texas. Warren was
there to capture the devastation.
10 Gimme shelter
The summer heat of the American
West gives rise to some spectacular
lightning storms.

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and bouquets from your magazine to investigate. We were looking for some
you this month. Chief digital cameras for our school, and thought the spec on the
among your concerns HP Photosmart 850 was about right. We placed an order for
was getting some of three cameras through our usual HP dealer, SCC Direct in
our cover software to work on your PCs. Both Birmingham, at an attractive price of £329.99 including VAT.
SmartPix Manager (issue 3) and Deneba We buy quite a bit of equipment through them as they are
Canvas 6 (issue 4) require serial numbers to one of the biggest educational suppliers of HP gear.
work, which are either printed in the mag or We received an email from SCC stating that they were not
can be obtained by registering with the Canon comparison? allowed to sell this camera as HP had signed an exclusive deal with Jessops and
appropriate website. We do explain this in I’m just trying to find out whether you will be John Lewis. In return, Jessops and John Lewis promise not to discount the camera. So your
our cover CD pages, but some of you testing the Olympus Camedia C-5050 in the near mission, (if you choose to accept it) is to purchase a HP Photosmart 850 from a supplier other
obviously missed it. We’ll aim to make such future. I’m trying to decide between that and than the two mentioned. If you cannot, then surely HP are guilty of price fixing, and could face a
caveats clearer in future. Canon’s PowerShot G3… hefty fine?
Aside from these niggles, most of the Adam Waddington Steve Boyd, Cheadle Hulme School
letters we get (thankfully) are pretty positive, DCM We contacted HP about this and a
but we welcome all your comments – it’s DCM You can find a review of the PowerShot spokesperson confirmed that the HP PhotoSmart
your magazine, after all. G3 on page 34 of this issue where it gains an 850 is only available through Jessops and John
Be sure to keep sending in your photos 81% rating – a little disappointing given the Lewis. However, discounts for schools are available
for Trailblazers, Day In The Life and our letters classic status of its predecessor, the PowerShot through Jessops educational division (0116 232
page too. We love to see what you’ve been G2. We’re expecting great things from the 6520). As for price fixing, the 850 exclusive is
up to each month, but please make sure you Olympus too, so look out for the definitive exempt since a) such deals are typically only in
include contact details and info about how, review in issue six of DCM, on sale Thursday force for a limited time and b) because HP sells
when and where you took your shots. 13th March. other digital cameras in its range through
Rob Mead Acting Editor competing high street and online outlets.
What’s in a This month’s Star Letter wins a copy of
memory card? PhotoImpact 8.
I’m thinking of buying a digital camera,
but I’m confused about all the different flash
memory formats that are out there. Some DCM You’re right Edward, there are a lot of memory cards too. Of all the formats, Memory
cameras come with SmartMedia, while others different formats out there right now and Stick and Secure Digital (SD) have spread the
have Memory Stick or Secure Digital. Are they many of them are totally incompatible with furthest into the consumer electronics sphere,
compatible? If not, how do I know that I won’t be each other. But that’s not necessarily a popping up in everything from PDAs to
stuck with a defunct format in the future – just as I problem. You can readily buy adaptors for your camcorders and phones, so they are the
was with Betamax? computer that will accept any of the current formats to go for if you want to share your
Interact Edward Brandon cards and many photo printers offer slots for cards with other devices. It’s probably worth
Digital Camera’s website forums offer a together to make one long image. Can on manual to maintain uniform exposures. Most of the other Forum posters agreed
wide range of topics, advice and helpful anyone advise me which software to use?” Overlap [each image] by 10% or more for that Adobe PhotoShop or PhotoShop
tips for newcomers and experienced David Needham replied: “Photomerge in lenses of 50mm or more, and 20-25% for Elements was a good bet for stitching your
photographers alike. This month, we focused Photoshop Elements creates the panoramic wide-angles.” images together, although Jack Pries also
on landscape panoramas... look out of a number of photos. I’ve had Sam Goodman agreed, adding: “The only recommended MGI PhotoSuite 4.0 (Platinum
varied results. It works best when you make thing to add... is [for you to] get a spirit level Edition). Whatever the package you use, it
Bruce Russell asks: “I’m new to digital sure all the photos are ‘level’ ie, on a tripod.” to fit onto the camera so that your shots sounds like Bruce will have plenty of fun
photography, and want to stitch images Alan Gallery added: “Make sure you expose come out level.” editing his pictures.

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Pop art
This shot of my girlfriend Lisa was taken
recently at Penarth Beach near Cardiff, Wales.
steering clear of any cameras that use DCM Sorry Steve, here’s your picture again… She suddenly burst into a song from the
SmartMedia as these cards have been Eighties so I took a snapshot. Underneath each
superseded by the newer x-D format too. Sundown layer is a further blended layer of a photo taken
I was making coffee in the kitchen when I noticed the same day of the sea at Penarth Beach. I
The trouble with Canvas the sky seemed to have bands of fire running wanted the photo to be a mix of psychedelic
I am having trouble installing the cover disc across it (due to the sun about to appear over the Eighties pop and the memory of a fantastic
software Deneba Canvas 6. In the installation setup horizon), so I ran for the camera. As there wouldn’t winter’s day at the beach. The finished image is
a serial number is required before the program can have been time to get anywhere more open (I’m a collection of four photos on one canvas. This
be installed. Please could you tell me where I can half a mile from the coast!) before the light image has been blended with the general
get this number from or how to overcome this changed, it had to be done from the back garden – blending selection of Darken, Multiply and
installation problem? silhouettes it was! Luminosity and further blended with the Hue
Monica Pothecary Steve Dooley and Saturation options. I have then played with
both the Hue and Saturation palette and
DCM To get the serial number you need to brightness/contrast tool.
register online at the Deneba website Darren Sheen
(www.deneba.com/cv6regukf). Once you’re
successfully registered, the number will be This goes to show what can be achieved
emailed to you. apps like Elements and Paint Shop Pro.
Sunset oversight Dawn light

I picked up issue four today and was really This photo was taken on my father’s
chuffed to see that you’d printed my picture in London balcony, using a Nikon CoolPix
Viewfinder. I was, however, just a tiny bit peeved 995. The height of the balcony and the
that you managed to credit it to Mark Bedding. trellis enclosing it give it a ‘secret
Any chance you could reprint it with my name garden’ feel. I took this shot early one
next to it? Cheers. morning in the soft dawn light, before
Steve Dooley the frost and the threads of spider web
were lost. I like the way the different
shades of grey in the background give
it depth.
Tell us what you want! Tom Powell
Every issue, it’s our aim to improve the magazine. This is a great, atmospheric picture
Write in to letters.dcm@futurenet.co.uk Tom, especially as it’s been
completely unenhanced by
He wanted… He He wanted… image editing apps.
Brian Kennedy is wanted… Rod Macdonald wanted more
after a wedge.tif Randy Kirihara Mac software to be included Avalon harbour
printer setup file wanted fewer on our cover CDs. This is a picture of Avalon harbour on
we forgot to put on camera reviews and Catalina Island in California. Our
issue 3’s cover discs. more tests of printers, He got… friends are in one of the boats you
scanners, ink and paper. All our CDs from issue
can see in the harbour. We rented a
He got… 4 onwards now come
The file is on our ftp site at He got… with Mac versions of little jeep and drove up to the highest
ftp://futurenet.co.uk/pub./m A direct photo printers group our giveaway software viewpoint. I used my Sony Cyber-shot
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SECTION #02 YOUR IMAGES
CREATIVE PROJECT PAGE
58
PHOTO SURREALISM
Barry Jackson invites you inside his imagination and
demonstrates his unique style of image blending
PHOTO CLINIC PAGE
64
RESTORE AN OLD COLOUR PHOTO
Ed Davis gives an old ’70s photo a new lease of life
after years of light exposure have turned it orange
PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS PAGE
68
USING CHANNELS AND GRADIENTS
Simon Danaher explores basic selection techniques
and looks at using different transparencies
PAINT SHOP PRO TUTORIAL PAGE

CREATIVE PROJECT
74
CREATE NIGHT MOODS
PHOTO SURREALISM Joe Apice shows you how to add dramatic night-
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PROJECT PHOTO SURREALISM
YOUR GUIDE BARRY JACKSON

Barry became hooked on digital photography last year. He soon realised that the
combination of digital camera (Fujifilm FinePix 6900 Zoom), computer and Photoshop
were the perfect tools to create his own particular style of photo surrealism
contact@etherealme.com PORTFOLIO BARRY JACKSON WEBSITE WWW.ETHEREALME.COM
Combining images to create

a surreal portrait
Digital photo artist Barry Jackson returns to guide you through the quick and easy creation of
another eggstraordinarily surreal image
T 3 TOOL SCHOOL
here have been many arguments over the originally planned to replace the background but after
PROJECT
years about whether digital or traditional film viewing the images on my computer I decided to keep
KEY DETAILS is the best photographic medium. The it because I liked the subtle green colour next to the
2 ON OUR DISC decision depends, among other things, on how the
individual photographer uses their chosen medium. One
pale blue shirt. The egg and spoon pictures were taken
against a white background under natural daylight from
MAGNETIC LASSO TOOL
This useful tool enables you to roughly
■ IMAGE FILES
All the elements you need to draw around a subject while the Lasso
of the main reasons why I use digital photography is the a nearby window. It was important to keep the
recreate ‘The Egg man’ are on automatically defines and sticks to the
our disc 1. speed at which it enables me to work. In this tutorial I’ll backgrounds uncluttered in order to make it easy to edge of the subject creating a selection.
take you step by step through the formation of the isolate the elements.
2 SKILL LEVEL image, ‘The Egg man’, which will take less than three All the photographs used to make up the final image
6 1 hours to complete. were taken with a Fujifilm FinePix 6900 Zoom with the
image quality set to fine. The images were then
2 TIME TO COMPLETE Shooting the elements transferred to my computer, ready for the really creative
2.5 HOURS The man in the image is a friend of mine, Andrew,

who kindly agreed to model for this image. I
photographed him against the only plain background I
process to begin.
All the files needed to recreate this image are
included on cover disc 1, so why not give this project a
could find during a five-minute break from his work. I go – it’s a lot easier than you might think…
THE HEAD THE EGG THE SPOON

A Taken inside under tungsten light, the FinePix B This picture was taken against a background of C The spoon was also taken against the same
6900 Zoom digital camera made a good job of plain white paper under natural daylight. The white background with the FinePix 6900
capturing the correct colours. The metal screen in the egg was perfectly boiled with a nice, runny yoke dribbling Zoom. All the images were taken from the same angle so
background had rivets in it but these were easy to down the front of the egg. that there were no conflicts with perspective.
remove using Photoshop .

Everything you need to
create this image is on your CD
All
All the images
images, filters
filters and plug-ins you
you need to
to
cre
create this image are
are on your
your co
cover CD.
CD. All
All
images
images are
are © Barry
Barry Jackson.
Jackson.
2 CDA/tutorials/
HEAD
man.psd
EGG
egg.psd
SPOON
spoon.psd
TOP TIP To quickly rename a layer, double click on the name of the layer you want to rename in the Layers palette and enter the new name
STAGE 1 2 IN FOCUS Using the Magic Wand tool

ISOLATING THE EGG
SELECT THE SHIFT AND ALT KEYS of a selection. Values between
Start by removing the egg image 03 BACKGROUND Hold down the shift key as you 0-255 can be entered; a value
from its background.
As the background is click with the Magic Wand to of 255 selects every pixel in
mainly the same colour, we can add to a selection or hold the image.
use the Magic Wand tool to select down the alt key to remove
the background. Click on the Magic from a selection. MAGIC WAND TOOL
Wand tool (W), set the tolerance to Use the Magic Wand tool to
30 and click on the background. TOLERANCE VALUES create a selection around
Adjust the tolerance value to pixels with a similar colour
0 EXPERT TIP increase or decrease the range. and brightness.
OPEN THE IMAGES
BARRY JACKSON 01 Open up the Man and Egg images in
PHOTOSHOP EXPERT
Photoshop – these can be found under
DISABLING THE tutorials on cover disc 1. Concentrate on the egg by
LAYER MASK
adjusting the colours, select the Curves palette by clicking
To turn off a Layer mask,
hold down the shift key while Image8Adjustments8Curves (Ctrl + M).
clicking on the mask icon.
Repeat this process to turn the
mask on again.
ADJUST THE COLOUR

02 Select the left eyedropper at the bottom-right
of the palette and then click on the darkest
part of the picture – the shadow between the egg and
the egg cup. Now select the right eyedropper, click on the
background and click OK to apply the adjustment.
? EXPLAINED
INVERSE
Selecting the inverse option enables
you to reverse the selection.
REMOVE THE BACKGROUND LAYER THE IMAGES RESIZE THE EGG

BLEND MODES
The blend modes are a range of
04 To soften the selection, edge-click 05 Use the Move tool (V) to drag the selection 06 From the Edit menu, select Edit8Free
options that control the way the Select8Feather (Alt + Ctrl + D) and set the onto the Man image, click on Layer8Layer transform (Ctrl + T) and then squeeze the egg
pixels in the base layer are affected feather radius to 1 pixel. Click OK to apply it and hit the properties, name the layer ‘Egg’, and click OK to apply the to fit the top of the man’s head. When you’re happy with
by other layers. delete key to remove the background. Inverse the name. Reduce the layer opacity to 50% and position the the results, double-click to apply the changes.
selection by clicking Select8Inverse (Shft + Ctrl + I). egg over the man’s head.

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STAGE 2 2
BLEND THE LAYERS
Use a layer mask and the
gradient tool to blend the
layers together.
USE THE ERASER DUPLICATE THE EGG LAYER ADD A LAYER MASK
0 EXPERT TIP 07 While the egg layer is still semi-transparent, 08 In the Layers palette, drag the egg layer onto 09 Now blend the egg with the man’s head,
use the Eraser tool (E) to remove the the new layer icon (second right at the bottom return to the original egg layer and select
BARRY JACKSON unwanted areas of the egg covering the man’s eyes of the Layers palette). This will make a duplicate copy of Layers8Add layer mask8Reveal. This will add a mask to
PHOTOSHOP EXPERT
and the spoon. When this is done, return the layer the ‘Egg copy’. Click on the eye icon to turn this layer off – the layer that we can adjust.
BACKGROUNDS
When photographing objects for
opacity to 100%. we’ll return to it later.
inclusion in a composite image,
always try to use a plain
background because this will
make it much easier to isolate
IN FOCUS Adjusting the Layer mask
the image later.
USE THE TOOLS ON THE REVEAL OR HIDE AREAS

10 GRADIENT TOOL LAYER MASK Use a Layer mask to hide
Use the Linear gradient tool The eraser, airbrush or reveal areas of the layer
(G) to drag from the top of the egg and gradient tool without affecting the
down to the man’s eyebrows. This can all be used on the pixels of the layer.
will create a gradual blend between the Layer mask.
two layers. MASK ICON
The mask icon next to the
eye icon indicates that the
Layer mask is active.
BLEND WITH SOFT LIGHT
11 Turn on the ‘Egg copy’ layer and select Soft
Light from the drop-down Blend8Modes
menu at the top of the Layers palette. Use the eraser to
remove the shell areas but leave the inside of the egg
and yoke dribbling down the front of the egg.
3 IN DETAIL
LAYER MASK
The Layer mask controls how
much of a particular layer appears
in the overall image. Black masked OPEN THE SPOON IMAGE
areas are hidden; white areas 12 Open the spoon image from the cover
show through.
CD, select Image8Image size and click
on the drop-down arrow next to the width box.
Select percent, set the width to 50%, and click OK to
apply the change.

TOP TIP Only sharpen your image at the end of the creative process because the use of other filters can enhance small marks created by sharpening
STAGE 3 2 IN FOCUS Using the Clone Stamp tool

ADD YOKE TO THE SPOON
TIDY THE CLONE STAMP ALIGNMENT
Add some runny egg yoke to the 15 BACKGROUND The Clone Stamp can be With Aligned selected,
empty spoon.
Return to the used in all the available the distance between
background layer and use the blending modes. the sample point and
Clone Stamp tool (S) to remove the Clone Stamp
the rivets in the background, REDUCED OPACITY remains constant. Turn
choose a brush with a soft edge Reduce the opacity of this off and the sample
and a diameter larger than the the Clone Stamp to point will stay in its
rivet, select a sample point close produce a subtler original position.
to each rivet for best results. clone effect.
SELECT THE YOKE
13 Use the Magnetic lasso tool (L) to carefully
draw around the yoke on the end of the
spoon, copy (Ctrl + C) and paste (Ctrl + V) or drag onto the
layered image. Name the layer ‘Yoke’ and position it on
top of the other layers.
? EXPLAINED
CLONE STAMP TOOL
The Cone Stamp tool enables you to
sample pixels from one part of the
image and place them anywhere
else within the image.
POSITION THE YOKE

14 Position the yoke over the end of the empty
spoon and then use the Eraser tool (E) to tidy
up any rough edges. The yoke should be roughly the right
size for the spoon. Use the Edit8Free transform tool (as in
step 6) to make any size adjustments.
0 EXPERT TIP
BARRY JACKSON
PHOTOSHOP EXPERT
MOVE TOOL CARRY ON CLONING FLATTEN THE IMAGE ADJUST THE CONTRAST
As well as using the Move tool to 16 With the Clone Stamp tool still selected,
17 It’s now time to merge all the layers together.
18 Now the image is flattened, colour and
drag one image from its window
onto another open window you remove the blue area at the bottom right- Select Layer8Flatten image. Be sure you are contrast adjustments can be made to the
can drag layers straight from the hand corner of the background, zoom in and use a hard- happy with the results of each layer before flattening whole image. Generally, the colours in this image are fine,
Layers palette. edged brush when cloning close to the man’s shirt. because once this is done any adjustments made will but the contrast could be stronger. To adjust this, select
affect the whole image. Image8Adjustments8Auto contrast (Alt + Shft + Ctrl + L).

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LEARN MORE ABOUT Learn more from three great tutorials from our sister magazine, Computer
PHOTOSHOP LIGHTING EFFECTS Arts, at www.computerarts.co.uk/tutorials/type/tutorial.asp?id=20705
STAGE 4 2 IN FOCUS Using lighting effects

ADD A HALO EFFECT
OMNI LIGHT LIGHTING STYLE MAKE ADJUSTMENTS
We will now use the Lighting 21 Select the Omni light type from Pick a lighting Choose between spotlight,
Effects filter to add a halo effect
the drop-down menu and style – there are directional or Omni light
to the man’s head.
position it over the top of the man’s head lots to choose types and use the sliders to
in the preview pane. Adjust the size from so adjust intensity and focus.
and position of the light by dragging the experiment with
handles. Try experimenting with the various different styles. COLOUR OF LIGHTING
styles of lighting. Choose the lighting
colour here.
DUPLICATE THE BACKGROUND

19 To give the impression of light emitting
from the man’s head, use the Lighting Effect.
First duplicate the background using Right click8Duplicate
background or by dragging the background layer onto
it to create a new layer icon at the bottom of the
Layers palette.
LIGHTING EFFECTS
20 With the original background layer active
select Filter8Render8Lighting Effects. This will
bring up the Lighting Effects palette, which enables us to
choose from a good range of lighting filters.
0 EXPERT TIP
BARRY JACKSON
LAYER STYLES
POSITIONING LAYERS
If you find it difficult to position
layers absolutely try using the
arrow keys to nudge the layer
one pixel at a time.
BLEND WITH SOFT LIGHT UNSHARP MASK THE END RESULT

22 When you’re happy with the lighting effect, 23 Flatten the image and apply the Unsharp Mask 24 We now have our end result – a slightly
click OK to apply it, return to the background filter using Filter8Sharpen8Unsharp Mask to disturbing but equally amusing image of a
copy layer and select Soft Light from the Blending modes sharpen the image. This filter enables us to control the man dipping a spoon into the top of his open head. Try
drop-down menu – this will place a light glow around and amount of sharpening needed. For best results, use lower capturing that within three hours on film!
behind the man’s head. settings and apply the filter two or three times.

PHOTO CLINIC RESTORATION
YOUR GUIDE ED DAVIS
Ed Davis is a London-based advertising and corporate photographer with many years
experience of studio and location photography. He specialises in image manipulation, and
delivers creative solutions that combine photography and digital technology. He is a member of
NAPP (National Association of Photoshop Professionals)
Equipment used: a scanner and Adobe Photoshop 7
picdesk.dcm@futurenet.co.uk WEBSITE WWW.ED-DAVIS-PHOTOGRAPHY.CO.UK
Colouring a faded photo

Over time, sunlight and chemical reactions can fade old prints. One reader’s photo from the 1970s has turned into a lifeless,
orangy-brown mess, so we challenged Ed Davis to bring it back to life…
Groovy baby
M
ost of us have boxes of faded photographs When undertaking a restoration project like this,
CLINIC stashed away, hardly recognisable images The damage in this picture is so extensive, and the try to ensure that the final image looks as natural as
CHALLENGE US of our youth. This month we were sent a colours have been so badly bleached and faded that possible. You may have to make an educated guess,
2 THE READER
print of three nattily-dressed friends standing in the
kitchen at a party. The patterned shirts and ties,
it’s impossible to decipher the original colours.
Looking at the man on the left-hand side, it’s hard to
taking into consideration the colour and styles of
clothes that were worn at the time.
PAUL DUNFORD
Paul had tried a few times to kaftan and generous facial hair left us in little doubt tell if his jacket is supposed to be brown, dark green Hopefully this picture will bring back some happy
bring a bit of realistic colour
that this shot was taken in the early 70s. or dark blue. memories for Paul…
into this picture. He has more
from the same batch of pictures
to restore…
2 CHALLENGE LEVEL
5 1
BEFORE The colours have bleached out,
detail is diffused and contrast is flat AFTER The colours have been revived,
putting the life back in the party!
2 TIME TO REPAIR
03
14 HOURS 01
02
2 NOW SEND YOURS!

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In Paul Dunford’s 70s party picture, the colours have 02 TOTAL COLOUR FADING to remove the pull cord, which cuts through the face of the
bleached out, leaving an orange cast that needs to be Solution: Remove the overall red tint, re-balance and re- man on the right-hand side.
Photo removed; the detail is diffused and needs to be

sharpened; the contrast is flat and lifeless; plus the colours
need to be enhanced.
colour the image using the Curves palette so that the
image appears more natural and gives the subjects a
more realistic look.
04 VISIBLE PAPER TEXTURE
Solution: The texture of paper that was used to print the
Clinic
image had become visible during scanning (this is a
01 FADED EDGES 03 BLEMISHES common problem that occurs when original prints are
Solution: Even out the faded edges of the photograph Solution: Use the Clone tool to get rid of any small scanned). Reduce this distinct surface texture using Layers
using Layer masks. blemishes, then use the Copy and Paste technique in order and Filters.

You can rename each layer by right-clicking the mouse on
4
USING the layer you wish to rename. Select Layer Properties in
MULTIPLE LAYERS the dialog box and rename the layer
STAGE 1
REMOVING FADED AREAS
2
The image has faded around the
edges and needs to be evened
out first.
MULTIPLE LAYERS ADD A MASK ADD GRADIENTS

01 Copy the background layer twice using 02 To remove the faded areas, click on the Add 03 Click inside the Layers mask. On the tool bar
Layer8Duplicate Layer (short cut, right-click Layer mask icon at the bottom of the Layers click on the Gradient tool (short cut, G), make
on the layer in the Layers palette and select Duplicate palette. This will place a Mask option on the layer. A mask sure the Linear Gradient is active and choose the gradient
Layer) and repeat the same procedure. You now have is used to separate areas of the image when working on that will affect the foreground and background. Take the
two layers. them. Once the balance is correct, the layers are merged cursor to the left-hand side of the image, click and drag to
to form one image. about two-thirds of the way across and release.
CREATE A MASK CHANGE BLENDING MODES SELECT THE RIGHT BLEND

04 The Gradient mask goes from left to right, and 05 To blend the layers together change the 06 In Photoshop 7 there are 24 Blending
white to black. The white area on the image Blending option at the top of the Layers modes. Each Blending mode affects the image
will be visible and the black area will be masked. palette to Multiply. The image is now a blend of the differently. The Multiply mode works well when dealing
three layers. Flatten the three layers into one using with faded or underexposed photographs. In this case, it
Layers8Flatten Image. recovers the lost information in the image.
STAGE 2 2
BALANCE THE COLOURS
The image now looks even
but the colour is still far from
correct. The overall red tint
is still apparent. To bring back
the original colour of the
photograph, each section of
colour is treated independently.
WHITEN THE SHIRT DARKEN THE JACKET A CLEARER IMAGE

07 Open the Curves Dialogue box using Image8 08 Click on the Shadow eyedropper and click on 09 The orange haze effect has been removed and
Adjustments8Curves (short cut, Ctrl + M). Click an area that should be black, such as the the people are defined so they stand out from
on the third eyedropper (Highlights), select an area of the dinner jacket of the man on the right-hand side. The the background. The next steps are to make the skin tone
photo that should be white and click on it. The red changes image darkens, the overall red tint disappears and more natural, balance the background colour and fine-
to a more neutral tonal range. suddenly the photograph looks more natural. tune the colour of the clothing.

PHOTO CLINIC RESTORATION
ONE-CLICK FIX To change a colour photograph into back and white, go to the option bar, click Image8Adjustment8Desaturate (short cut, Shift + Ctrl + U). The colour photograph will now be black and white
0 EXPERT TIP
ED DAVIS
PHOTOSHOP
SHOW TOOL TIPS
To find out about tools and what
the symbols and icons mean,
make sure the Show Tool Tips
box is ticked in the preferences
using Edit8Preferences8General.
COLOUR REFERENCE ON THE RIGHT PATH MULTIPLE CORRECTIONS

10 Next, remove the colour cast from individual 11 From the tool bar, select the Lasso tool (short 12 Creating paths enables you to save complex
items. We do not have enough information cut, L). Make a selection around the skin of the selections and go back to them at several
about the colour of the clothes but balancing the skin subject – the face, neck and hands. Click on Paths in the stages during retouching to make multiple corrections.
tone is a good place to start because it changes the same palette as the Layers, move the cursor to the Make selections and create paths for each of the areas
colours of the clothes accordingly and gives us a good bottom of the palette, click on the icon that is third from to be adjusted – jackets, shirts, ties, hair, faces, skin tone
base to work with. the right and make a work path from the selection. and background.
THE SKIN TONES REPEAT UNTIL DONE FINAL TOUCHES

13 The main colour in the flesh tones is red – in 14 The different paths created now appear on the 15 The photograph was taken in the early 70s.
this case too much red. Open the Selective Paths palette. Each item can be adjusted Select the shirt (see image 14) and make a
Colour pallet using Image8Adjustments8Selective separately. Right-click on a path using Click8Make guess at the brightness of the pink shirt. Click the Levels
Colour. Move the sliders to reduce the amount of red and Selection, leave the Feather Radius at 1 pixel and click OK. palette using Image8Adjustments8Levels (short cut, Ctrl +
check the colour change by clicking the preview selector Open the Selective Colour palette and adjust the sliders to L). Move the slider on the right over to the left, and the
on and off. remove the relevant colour. shirt will brighten to your taste.
STAGE 3 2
REMOVE THE PULL CORD
AND BLEMISHES
The pull cord hangs across the
man’s face and should be
removed using copy and paste.
Cover up the white patches along
the right edge in the same way.
Then use the Clone tool to remove
smaller imperfections.
COPY AND PASTE… … UNTIL DONE CLEAN UP THE REST
16 Click on the Lasso tool (short cut, L), make a 17 The pull cord can’t be covered in one 18 Click the Clone tool in the tool bar (short cut,
selection around the part of the image that operation. The same method will have to S), pick a soft-edge brush from the Brush
needs to be covered and move the selection over an area be applied several times to blend the new pasted areas pallet on the Options bar and a circle will appear
that is similar in tonal range and colour. Click Edit8Copy correctly – each time matching the new piece with representing a brush size. Click and drag the mouse to the
(short cut, Ctrl + C) then Edit8Paste (short cut, Ctrl + V). its surroundings. area you want to cover, release the mouse and click on
Now move the new pasted section over the pull cord. the blemish.

To find out more about Blending modes there are
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MORE TOOL tutorials at http://photoshopgurus.info/beginners/
OPTIONS ps-blend_modes.shtml
STAGE 4 2
REDUCE THE
PAPER TEXTURE
In the 60s and 70s, photographic
paper was available with a
distinct surface texture sometimes
referred to as satin finish. This
photograph was printed on coarse
quality paper.
TAKE A CLOSER LOOK CHOOSE A PATH WHICH FILTER TO USE

19 Enlarge a section of the image to see the 20 The next step is to reduce the pattern. Go back 21 The linear texture is impossible to remove but
original pattern on the photographic paper. On to the paths we created earlier, click on the it can be reduced. Apply the Motion Blur filter.
the tool bar, click Zoom (short cut, Z), click on the image – Paths palette tab. Right-click on the path that covers the The angle and amount of blur can be adjusted. Click Filter
it will magnify every time you click. The pattern will area you want to work on, click Make Selection to select 8Blur8Motion Blur then alter the angle and amount until
become visible all over. the area. A filter can now be applied. the selected area loses the grain. The image softens but
the detail remains intact.
IN FOCUS DIFFERENT EFFECTS
GROOVY MAN!
23 Invoke the psychedelic era. In the Curves
palette, move the graph up and down to form
a wave pattern with peaks and troughs using
Image8Adjustment8Curves (short cut, Ctrl + M). The
result is random and unusual.
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Send them in, we’ll fix them up for
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22 Once the retouching is In the final picture, The net curtains and
The sort of pictures we’re after
finished, the tonal range can the subjects are the hot water heater
need to be decent photos which
have become damaged –
be changed. Keep it as it was originally, defined so they are also recognisable.
unfortunately we can’t make badly turn it to black and white or create a stand out from the The photograph looks
composed/shot photos good. funky background – the choice is yours! background. We can almost as fresh as the
now clearly see that day it was taken
■ Contact us via email, with a small they are standing in
JPEG of the photo attached, and if
the kitchen
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Basic selecting techniques

in Photoshop Elements
Selections are a vital part of the editing process in Photoshop and can seriously trip you up if they’re done badly.
Here we look at the basics of selections in Photoshop, how they work and how to make the most of them
L
ast issue we looked at basic selecting skills in transparent selection is one that only partially protects mode to paint a selection using black or white, where
TUTORIAL
Photoshop and this month we will be pixels. This means that rather than a filter being applied black equals no selection and white is fully selected. In
KEY DETAILS pushing things a little further with some to the selected pixels with 100% intensity, the effect is fact, you can use any shade of grey, and the percentage
2 SKILL BOOSTER intermediate selection skills. As we’ve seen, making
selections is key to success in Photoshop. It’s such a
only partially applied.
The great thing with these kinds of selections is that
of brightness you choose will directly reflect the
transparency of the selection. Use 50% grey and the
5 simple thing yet it presents a minefield of potential the degree of transparency can vary over the selected selection will be 50% transparent, for example.
2 TIME TO COMPLETE disasters if not done correctly.

In this tutorial we will look at partially transparent
area, and in order to do this Photoshop has a very
simple relationship between pixel brightness and
The key is to understand that pixels and selections
are interchangeable and where this is most evident is in
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selections, gradient selections and more. A partially selection. We’ve seen how you can use Quickmask the Channels palette.
2
CHANNELS You can view a selected shape as pixels, by converting it from a selection into a channel - this
then enables you to make adjustments to it and store the shape for future use
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CREATE A NEW DOCUMENT
The first thing we must do is make our 02
APPLY A NOISE FILTER
We can leave Quickmask mode, and there’s 03
TURN A SELECTION INTO A CHANNEL
We can see what the selection looks like
CHANNEL selection. Create a new document in our selection. Apply a filter such as Noise by converting it into a channel: the
A special ‘layer’ in the Channel Photoshop, say 1,024 x 768 pixels with a white through it and the filter is constrained to where we transparency values in the selection are converted to
palette that stores greyscale pixels. background. Now we’ve talked about the Quickmask painted. Simple. Notice, though, that the edges of the white, black or grey pixels. With your selection still
These can be used to make
function before. You can create a custom selection effect fade out smoothly. Because we used a soft active click on the Channels palette and click the ‘Save
selections and masks and can
be saved as alpha channels in
by enabling Quickmask mode (the q key), filing it edged brush the selection has a soft edge – we are Selection as Channel’ button. Click on the newly
certain file formats. with black and painting in it with white using the already creating a partially transparent selection created channel to view it. The selection has now
Brush tool. without realising it. been converted into pixels.

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LAYER MASKS
A selection can also be saved as a
layer mask, just like a channel.
You can load any channel or layer
mask as a selection by command-
clicking on it.
STORE AND REUSE HARDEN UP THE EDGES STYALIZE YOUR IMAGE

04 As well as showing its true pixels, 05 With the selection converted to a channel 06 Now we can modify the edges, perhaps
converting your selections into channels is (so they are now represented as pixels), you making them grainy and rough by applying
also a convenient way of storing them for re-use in can use Photoshop’s tools and filters to modify it. For the Styalize8Torn Edges filter. Once you’re happy with
the future. (To convert a channel back into a selection example, applying Levels to the channels you can drag the look you can load the channel as a selection (see
later on, you simply select it and click the ‘Load the black and white input sliders inwards to harden up step 4) and use it any way you see fit – to make a
Channel As Selection’ button at the bottom of the the edges. Don’t forget to drop the active selection colour adjustment or to apply a filter through on an
Channels palette). (command-d) beforehand though. image layer.
Making gradient selections is an essential skill, and it’s quite easy to do.
GRADIENTS The steps below show you how to use the gradient tool
OPEN THE BABY PICTURE ADD A NEW CHANNEL USE THE GRADIENT TOOL
01 Open the file Baby.jpg from the CD. What 02 In the Channels palette add a new channel 03 In the Gradient tool options bar select
we want to do here is focus more strongly and choose the gradient tool. Now select the Reflected gradient type, then use the
on the mother and baby – particularly the mother’s the new channel, then click the eye icon of the RGB tool to drag diagonally from the centre of the image
loving gaze. A gradient selection is very useful here channel. This displays the channel and the RGB layers to the top left hand corner. The gradient you draw
because enables us to modify the image in a specific together – the channel will display as a red rubylith onto the image should end up looking similar to the
but seamless manner. just like in Quickmask mode. one shown above.
LIGHTEN THE BACKGROUND DARKEN THE BACKGROUND GUASSIAN BLUR

04 Load this channel as a selection (click at the 05 Alternatively you can make the background, 06 You don’t have to use Levels to get this
bottom of the channels palette). Back in the darker. In order to do this we must flip the blurred effect – any Photoshop filter or
Layers palette click the background layer to select it selection so that the mother and baby are protected by adjustment will do. Here we’ve used Gaussian blur to
(the rubylith disappears) and run Levels (command-l). the selection. Typing command-shift-i will invert the blur through the gradient selection so that the look of
Now you can adjust the gamma slider to make the selection, and then you can run Levels and reduce the the background is softened. See the final file,
mother and baby lighter than the background. white output slider. Blurred.jpg for the finished effect.

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Solving white balance errors

in Photoshop Elements
Colour casts can be caused by many different circumstances, but one of the most exasperating
results from an incorrect use of the white balance command in your digital camera
T
he human eye is completely self-correcting programmed to match a precise lighting condition, one-stop command, with no dialog box and no tools to
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when presented with artificial light, but measured in colour temperature on the Kelvin scale (K). vary the results. This works best on images which have
KEY DETAILS cameras are only designed to operate within a mild colour cast, but proves much less reliable on
2 SKILL BOOSTER the colourless spectrum of natural daylight. This is why
you sometimes get strange coloured photos when
Colour controls in Elements
There are four ways of correcting image colour
bigger problems. The Colour Cast Correction tool offers a
better chance to solve complex casts by using a dropper
5 shooting under fluorescent tubes or domestic tungsten imbalance in Photoshop Elements: the Auto Colour tool to set new colour. The Color Variation dialog is the
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lighting, unless the white balance is properly set. A
digital sensor in both digital and traditional cameras
Correction, the Colour Cast Correction tool, the Colour
Variations and the (least used) Levels command. Like all
easiest to use by far and the best place to start. It offers
three colour correctors and a useful lighten and darken
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provides invisible colour correction and compensates for
any imbalances in the visual spectrum. On more
tools in Elements and the full blown Photoshop, these
four controls appear to offer the same end result, but
function without needing to move onto another dialog
box. The fastest method and the most reliable, after
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Solving flash errors
advanced digital SLRs, the white balance function can be will vary in their success depending on the condition of some practice, however, is the hidden mid-tone dropper
used to tackle a wider range of problems and can be the original image. The Auto Colour Correction offers a control in the Levels dialog box.
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NEUTRAL BASE The Color Variations command is easy to use and works well if the
original colour can easily be identified as a neutral shade
SPOT THE COLOUR CAST SET UP THE DIALOG BOX THE CORRECTED IMAGE
01 Shot in natural light, this image should be a
02 Best results are achieved by applying colour
03 Now neutral without being too cold, the final
neutral grey, but has turned out much corrections to the Midtone areas. Don’t result shows off details and delicate colours
warmer than expected. With neutral coloured images, overdo the amount of correction and have the Colour absent in the original. The same Color Variations
it’s easy to see colour casts compared to spotting Intensity Amount slider set halfway as shown. Click into command can be used creatively to warm up
them in more saturated colour areas. Do an either of the six colour buttons and watch the After images taken with a flash or cool down those shot
Enhance8Adjust Color8Color Variations command. preview image, top right, change. under an evening light.

This can provide a one-click fix; but sometimes you’ll
AUTO CORRECTION need to make more detailed adjustments
ORIGINAL WITH A BLUISH CAST USE AUTO COLOUR CORRECTION THE CORRECTED ORIGINAL
01 This image of sand was shot under bright 02 The first step worth taking is to make an 03 You’ll see pretty quickly whether this quick
sunlight, but with the wrong white balance Enhance8Auto Colour Correction command. fix control has solved the problem. The
setting. Although much colder and bluer than It’s essential to make sure that you haven’t made a original bluish cast is now removed, leaving a warmer
anticipated, this slight kind of colour imbalance is selection before applying this command, or the results end result. If unsuccessful, reverse out with an
easy to solve. will apply to a smaller area and not the entire image. Edit8Undo command and try the next method.
ORIGINAL WITH A MAGENTA CAST APPLY THE ADJUSTMENT NEUTRAL COLOUR ORIGINAL
04 This image was shot in daylight with the 05 Do Enhance8Adjust Color8Color Cast to bring 06 After clicking the highlighted areas, this is
white balance set to correct fluorescent the dialog box into play. This prompts you to the result. It’s important to remember that
lighting by mistake. Domestic and tube lighting gives click into the image using a tiny dropper tool, onto a even a slight repositioning of your dropper tool will
off a green light, so magenta is used to compensate. white, black or grey area. You’ll need to make several result in a completely different colour change, but
Casts are easier to spot in mid–tone grey areas. attempts before it’s fully corrected though. keep on clicking until you find the right balance.
The Levels command works with a mid-tone dropper that

USING LEVELS takes a neutral patch and adjusts colour accordingly
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SHOOTING IN DIFFERENT
COLOUR SPACES
The sRGB colour space is a universal
colour palette used in most digital
cameras, but better cameras can
be set to shoot in the Adobe RGB
(1998) space, which draws upon a
larger colour range. Professional
image editing software like Adobe
Photoshop enables you to manage
images produced under different
YELLOW STARTING POINT USE THE MID-TONE DROPPER THE END RESULT colour spaces and minimise the
01 Even though this image is mainly coloured 02 Once open, click on the middle dropper tool, 03 Now fully corrected, the same image visible damage. If your digital
images constantly lack colour or
green, the bottom, left-hand area of in the bottom right hand corner of the separates out different colours much better
brightness, then it’s worth
pavement is yellow rather than a neutral gray. Make dialog. Next position this in the most neutral mid tone than the original and has lost its former yellow cast. If
experimenting with the colour
an Enhance8Adjust Brightness/Contrast8Levels area of the image and click. This command will the process didn’t work first time, keep clicking the mid space of your digital camera.
command to start the correction process. completely colour correct your image. tone dropper in a new area until it’s corrected.

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Fixing dark photos

with Paint Shop Pro 7
If your photos are on the dark side, and you want to bring back the original brightness and detail,
Joe Apice shows you how, using PSP7 and a little common sense
H 7TOOL SCHOOL
alf the battle when trying to improve automatic cameras, this situation most often occurs on
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an image is recognising what’s wrong with sunny days, when the camera’s built-in exposure metre
KEY DETAILS it; the other half is knowing how to resolve is fooled by complex lighting conditions, such as when
2 SKILL LEVEL the problem. Although photo-editing software has
helped many photographers correct their mistakes,
there’s a mixture of bright sky and shadows.
There are two ways to fix this problem: at the
TOOL PALETTE
The Freehand Selection tool and
the Magic Wand are found in
8 we must keep in mind that Paint Shop Pro – like camera level, when you can adjust your exposure to the Tool Palette.
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so many other image-editing programs – is also
designed to enhance your photos. These programs are
compensate for the lighting situation; and at the image-
editing level, when you can use the photo-editing tools the Curves command, the Levels command and the
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not designed simply to replace the skill that goes into
taking a good picture.
that we’ll be discussing in this tutorial.
It’s important to remember that there are several
Layer Blend mode.
This month we will use some of the simpler tools,
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Dark photos result when the amount of light reaching tools that can be used to fix dark photographs using and show you how to get some really professional
the image sensor on your camera is insufficient. With Paint Shop Pro. These tools include the Histogram, looking results.
DESIGN FEATURES Identify the light and dark areas in the image, determine what details you
want to bring out and select a staring point that will set the tone for the image
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AUTO EXPOSURE LOCK
If your camera has an Auto
Exposure Lock (AEL), you can
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adjust the exposure by moving in
close to your subject and taking a
metre reading. Use the AEL
button to lock the exposure,
move back and recompose your
picture, then press the shutter
release. If your camera is not
equipped with an AEL feature,
the simplest way to highlight PREVIEW THE RAW IMAGE MAKE THE FIRST SELECTION THE SKY IS BLUE
shadows is to use your camera’s 01 In this example, the camera’s exposure metre 02 Blue skies add a natural colour balance to 03 The Color Balance tool offers control over
built-in flash as fill light. The light
has been fooled by the complex lighting photographs, so we want to enhance the colour mixture and provides an ample
from the flash will fill the shadow
conditions of the scene. The bright sky and light coloured the colours here. The sky selection is made with the amount of colour saturation. Select the Color Balance tool
areas without affecting your
background. See your camera trousers of the boy’s uniform have caused underexposure. Magic Wand tool with the tolerance set to 15. We can by choosing Colors8Adjust8Color Balance on the Main
manual for details on how to use As a result, the trees in the background have lost detail, capture the entire sky in one click of the mouse. This Menu bar. Keep the settings in the dialog box at their
these features. the grass has turned an ugly colour and there’s a shadow selection will also serve as the starting point for our default values and slide the Yellow – Blue balance slider
over the boy’s face, caused by the baseball cap. subsequent selections. all the way to the right to enrich the blue.

The Auto Color Balance and Auto Contrast commands are not available in earlier versions
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AUTO COMMANDS of PSP. To achieve similar results with the earlier versions of Paint Shop Pro, use Colors
IN MORE DETAIL 8Adjust8Color Balance and Colors8 Adjust8Brightness Contrast
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INVERT THE SELECTION BALANCE THE LIGHT MAKE THE GRASS SELECTION
04 With the sky selection still in place, choose
05 On the Main Menu bar, select Colors8Adjust8
06 We can now begin to see the textures and
Selections8 Invert. This will enable us to work Levels. Click the Reset button in the lower shadows of the branches and leaves. We want
on the remaining areas of the image to bring out the right-hand side of the panel to bring the sliders to their the colours in the grass to be more vibrant because the
details in the trees, grass and on the boy. You can feather default position. Next, move the middle slider to the left grass acts as a natural contrast against the boy’s uniform.
the selection to blend the colours. Choose Selections8 until the details in the trees begin to show – a setting of First, select the entire grass area around the boy as shown
Modify8Feather and set the feather value to 3. 1.74 achieves the desired results. using the Freehand Selection tool.
LAWN CARE BRING OUT THE BOY’S FEATURES ADD COLOUR TO THE FACE
07 On the Main menu bar, choose Effects8 08 With the Freehand Selection tool, select the 09 Add a colour tint to the boy’s face to help even
Enhance Photo8Manual Color Correction. In area around the boy’s face down to just below out the tone when we adjust the contrast. On
the preview window, drag a rectangular selection as the neckline. We also want to feather the selection using the Main Menu bar, select Effects8Enhance Photo8Auto
shown to include the source colour. Next, select Grasses the Selections8 Modify8Feather command and setting the Color Balance. In the dialog box, move the slider to the
for the category, and then click the arrow in the Preset feather value to 3 pixels. Feathering the selection helps to left until the Temperature value is 5541. Maintain the
Colors box to bring up the colours. smooth out the colour transitions. other settings at their default position.
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HISTOGRAMS
You can use the Histogram to
determine if there is enough detail
HIGHLIGHTS AND SHADOWS LOOKING SHARP THE END RESULTS
10 The Auto Contrast command helps to balance 11 Sharpen the image using the Unsharp
12 PSP will help you create an image that will
in an image to make corrections
possible, and what lightness
the highlights and shadows in the boy’s mask. On the Main Menu bar, select Effects8 rival those of pro photographers. For best corrections need to be made. You
face. Select Effects8Enhance Photo8Automatic Contrast Sharpen8Unsharp Mask. In the dialog box, adjust the results, preview your photo, make accurate selections of can open the Histogram window
by clicking the Histogram icon on
Enhancement. In the dialog box, set the Bias to Neutral Strength setting between 50 and 100 until you achieve the areas you want to change and make the changes
the standard toolbar.
and the Strength and Appearance to Normal. the desired results. Here, a setting of 100 works well. gradually using the tools that give you the best control.

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Creating night moods

in your photos
If you have a photo that lacks mood, or maybe you just want to see it in a different light, Joe Apice shows you
how to create a bit more atmosphere using just a few basic tools available in Paint Shop Pro 7
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he time of day that you decide to take a the light is right requires a lot of planning and a lot
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picture is as important as the picture itself – it more patience.
KEY DETAILS determines the mood of your final image. On holiday, the day is filled with many activities and
2
TOOL PALETTE
SKILL LEVEL Photos taken early in the morning or late in the day will often we don’t have time to set up our cameras and
The Lasso tool, the Magic Wand
produce long shadows and warm light and they are the wait for that special moment. So what can we do? and the Paintbrush tool are found
8 ideal times for landscape and scenic photography. Well, with a little practice, we can achieve the same in the Tool Palette.
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Night-time, when the moon is full, is another great
time to create atmosphere in your photos. Pictures of
results with Paint Shop Pro. For example, if you want to
photograph a scene, but it’s midday and the light is not good for adding dramatic effects. Objects such as street
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dark streets and alleyways taken during the night give
an eerie feeling of suspense and drama – almost as if
dramatic enough, try to imagine what the scene would
look like during the late afternoon, early evening or at
lights lend themselves well for night photos. Other
things such as waterways, streams and water puddles
2 NEXT MONTH someone is lurking in the shadows. Light gives life to night. Angle your shot to include key elements that will can be manipulated to reflect areas of the scene and
Making people look younger photographs, and capturing the exact moment when help you when you alter the image. Clouds are always bring a feeling of depth to the image.
GET STARTED Divide the image into parts, and identify the key elements in the scene that
will play a role in the manipulation of the image
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COLOUR AND CONTRAST PREVIEW THE IMAGE MAKE THE SKY SELECTION SELECT THE WATERWAY
The Auto Color Balance and Auto
01 The image of this Venetian waterway was shot 02 Select the sky using the Magic Wand. In the 03 Use the Lasso tool in Freehand mode to select
Contrast commands are not at about 11am. Notice how the brilliant light Tool Option Palette, set the Magic Wand the waterway. In the Tool Option Palette, set
available in earlier versions of PSP. from the midday sun has lit the entire scene. There tolerance to 15 and the Feather value to 0. Hold down the the Feather value to 0 and trace around the edges of the
To achieve similar results with the appears to be a lot of detail but the image lacks mood, Shift key and click the Magic Wand pointer at the empty water as shown. Hold down the shift key when making
earlier versions, use Colors8
which is often typical of photos taken at this time of day. sky and then at the cloud patterns until the entire sky is selections that are not contiguous. Save the completed
Adjust8Color Balance and
Colors8Adjust8Brightness Contrast.
The elements that will play the key role in the transition selected. Save the selection using the Selections8Save to selection to disk using the Selections8Save to Disk
from day to night are the clouds, street lights and water. Disk command and name it ‘Sky and Clouds’. command and name it ‘Waterway’.

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FURTHER quality filters that create moods when used in color photographs. They include Orange
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DARKEN THE SKY DARKEN THE BUILDINGS AND WATER ADD CONTRAST TO THE WATER
04 Load the Sky and Clouds selection back onto
05 On the Main menu bar choose Selections
06 Load the Waterway selection back onto the
the image using the Selections8Load from Disk 8Invert to select the rest of the image and image by choosing Selections8Load from
command. Bring up the Curves adjustment tool by then bring up the Curves adjustment tool by choosing Disk8Waterway. Select Effects8Enhance Photo8Automatic
selecting Colors8Adjust8Curves from the Main menu bar. Colors8Adjust8Curves. Drag the line from the centre of Contrast Enhancement from the main menu. Set the Bias
In the Curves dialog box click the mouse pointer on the the grid as shown or enter a value of 155 in the Input box to Darkest, the Strength to Normal and the Appearance to
centre of the grid and drag the line down as shown. and 100 in the Output box. Bold to bring out the details and reflections in the water.
CREATE MOONLIGHT IN THE SKY ACCENTUATE THE SHADOWS BELOW ILLUMINATING THE STREET LIGHTS
07 Load the Sky selection onto the image by 08 Apply the same technique to the buildings and 09 On the Main menu bar, select Effects8
choosing Selections8Load from Disk8Sky and the water with a higher opacity level. With the Illumination Effects8Sunburst. Place the
Clouds. Select the Paint Brush tool and, in the Tool Option sky selection in place, choose Selections8Invert on the crosshairs in the left-hand preview panel directly over the
Palette, choose a large brush size – around 150 – and set Main menu bar. Select the Paint Brush tool with the street light. Set the Light Spot Brightness to 30; Circle
the Opacity and Step values to 20. Make the foreground Opacity value set to 45. Keep the same brush size and Brightness to 0; Rays Density to 20; and Rays Brightness
colour black and brush the colour into the selected area. apply black to the selected area as shown. to 50. Keep the colour white or bright yellow.
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CURSORS
When making tight selections, set
up your Tool Preferences to show
precise cursors. You can change the
SHAPE THE LIGHT FALL BRIGHTEN THE SELECTED AREA THE FINAL TOUCHES cursor type by clicking the Cursor
10 To produce the effect of light being shed onto 11 On the Main menu bar select Colors8
12 Create the illusion of light to some of the and Tablet Options tab in the Tool
Option Palette. Press and hold the
the pavement and water, a selection is made Adjust8Curves. In the Curves dialog box, first windows and stars. Add the window light by
Shift key to add to your selection;
to approximate where the light would fall. The selection is click the reset button, then click the line at the centre of using the paintbrush tool set to 50% opacity and a dark press and hold the Ctrl key to
feathered with a value of 60 – this diffuses the effect and the grid and drag it upwards at a diagonal until the Input yellow colour. Add the stars by using the Paint Brush tool subtract from your selection.
produces a more natural appearance. box reads 92 and the Output box reads 157, as shown. with a brush size of 1 and the opacity set to 100.

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16 ways to edit an image

in Deneba Canvas 6
It's powerful, versatile and ideal for image editing, drawing, painting and web page creation. And it was on
last's month's coverdisc! Now discover how to make the most of it
W
hen we initially did the deal to get Canvas 6 or a stack of paint objects on a single layer and you create a new selection from scratch and risk a
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on our CD, we did not realise just what a wish to flatten (merge) your work into one single paint mismatch, simply save the selection as a new channel.
KEY DETAILS flexible and powerful program it was. We object, then there is no specific command for this. What Then open the Channels palette and drag the new
2 ON OUR DISC thought it was mostly a vector drawing program but
while this is true, that’s only a small fraction of its
you must do instead is select all the paint objects you
wish to merge and click Image8Area8Render to render
channel downward into the channel mask slot.
Next click Object8Transparency8Detach Mask. Select
Trial of Canvas 8 (Mac and PC).
For full version of Canvas 6, call abilities. Of most interest to digital photographers are them into a new, single paint object. This will not the other paint object and click Object8Transparency8
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the image editing and website creating features. destroy your original paint objects; rather it will create a Attach Mask. In the Channels palette, drag the mask
2 SKILL BOOSTER In fact, the image editor built into Canvas is good brand new paint object from them and the originals will from the channel mask slot upward into the alpha
enough for most photo-orientated image purposes, with remain unharmed. channels area. You can now place the paint object into
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image correction tools, support for Photoshop plug-ins edit mode and click Image8Select8Load, and the
2 TIME TO COMPLETE and effects filters, the ability to cut out and alter images 02 Transferring a selection selection will be available to load.
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and support for layers. If you missed Paint Shop Pro with Sometimes you will copy a paint object then create a
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issue 1, this will go along way to filling in that gap. selection on one of the copies and realise you need to 03 Applying global changes
Anyway, that’s the hard sell – now for the tips. use the same selection on the other copy. There is no to spot colours
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command or provision for loading a selection from one Sometimes you will want to change a spot colour after
01 Flatten an image paint object to another but there is a provision for it appears in many places throughout the document.
As in Photoshop, if you have built up a number of Iayers attaching and detaching a channel mask. Rather than Canvas does not maintain links to the objects using inks,
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WITH CANVAS 6 01 02 03 04 05
Access the various controls via this

simple-to-use interface
01 File
Open and save files in the usual way. Use for
paintings, images and so on
02 Edit
Calibrate your colours here, or set up gamut warnings
03 Object
Use this to control layers and create/remove paths
04 Effects
Transform and Free Transform tools let you repair
converging verticals. Blend colours or add shadows
05 Image
Choose Greyscale, RGB, CMYK or Lab colours. Crop/trim
images, change resolution. Adjust contrast and balance.

MIKE’S SKETCHPAD Useful selection of tips for later versions of Canvas. See www.sketchpad.net
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PHOTOIMPACT
TOOLBAR
04 LAYERS AND OBJECT STACKS
It’s easy to lose track of the which layer you’re working on so keep track of your selections Here’s a quick guide to
the tools mentioned on
these pages. You can
Each layer has its own stack. When you issue alter the overall view via
the Tile With... option
commands such as Bring to front, Send to back, under Window.
shuffle down and shuffle up, the commands affect
only objects on the current layer. When you begin 8 Selection tool
to work with multiple layers, you need to bear in
mind the effects of duplicating and moving objects
8 Crop/Draw/Lasoo
between layers. There can be little or no change 8 Add text

to the screen display, but there may be major
changes to your composition.
8 Draw a rectangle
Working with Objects

8 Draw a curved path
Imagine you select and copy an object with 8 Draw an oval

Edit8Duplicate. The duplicate object is in a stack of
two objects on layer 2. There are some important
8 Zoom
points to be made here: 8 Opacity slider

a) The duplicate is placed directly on top of its
original. If you want to select the original then you 8 Strokes/brushes
need a means to select objects that lie directly
beneath other objects.
8 Pen ink tools
b) Immediately after duplicating the original 8 Flood fill

object it becomes unselected and the duplicate is
now selected so you need to be aware of which
object you are working with (there is no change
to the screen display).
Click the Send To Layers button on the toolbar or
click Object8Arrange8Send To Layers. A palette
will appear. Choose layer 1 and click Select. You
are only seeing the duplicate object mentioned
above. Everything above and below is hidden
while it’s selected. If you deselect all objects, the
original object will be showing again. Manage your layers via the Document Layout palette under the Layout menu
so changing them will not affect the objects to which default numbers and order to prevent confusion. You’ll 08 Work with Layers 1
they are applied. be glad you did. In Canvas you can edit three kinds of documents –
Instead of changing each object individually, use the illustration, publication and presentation documents.
Find command for this purpose. First edit or create the 06 Moving a Selection Marquee Illustration documents contain sheets and each sheet is
new colour you wish to use. Then click Edit8Find and In Canvas there is no tool to move a Selection Marquee composed of layers. Publications contain pages and each
choose either the fill or pen attribute. A list of all the as such. But you can float a selection and make it page is composed of layers. Presentations are a series of
colours used throughout the document will appear. transparent. Here’s how. Make your initial selection then slides and each slide is composed of layers.
Choose the colour you wish to replace from the list and click Image8Select8Float (that floats a copy of what’s
click Select. Canvas will select all the objects having the under it without disturbing the original pixels). 09 Managing Layers
fill or pen ink chosen. Once the objects have been Then here’s the trick... pull up the Channels palette Layers are managed in the Document Layout palette,
selected, simply click the ink you wish to replace it with
in the Inks palette.
and set the Floating Opacity value down to zero if you
want. Now you can see what’s under it while you move
found under the Layout menu item. Click the plus sign
next to the sheet to reveal the default layer (below left).
3 IN DETAIL
it around. You can even use the arrow keys to nudge the On the bottom left side of the palette is a button to add TOOLS
05 Store layers in default order marquee a pixel at a time. a new sheet. Click layer 1 to activate it (below right). Right-click on a tool for more
The default order in which layers are added and Notice that the button on the lower left side changes to options – for example, the tool to
numbered are from bottom to top. Layer 1 will be on 07 Prepare GIF and JPEG images for New Layer. the right of the selection tool on the
the bottom followed by layer 2, then layer 3 on the top, the Net toolbar contains some 21 tools,
including crop, draw, erase, lasso,
etc. Images and their layers can be saved as individual Start by selecting all the objects for the image you want 10 Adding a layer airbrush, magic wand, eyedropper
Canvas files which themselves can be reused and placed to export as JPEG. Click File8Save As. In the Save As Click the New Layer button (below left). Upon doing so, and many more. Very impressive.
into other Canvas documents. dialog in the lower left corner there are two things to Canvas adds a new layer and assigns it a number. Also
When this is done, Canvas will place the layers in the check. First, click the Save Selection radio button, then notice that adding the new layer also activates it
default order whether they were saved that way or not. choose JPEG from the ‘Save as type’ pull down. Then (highlighted grey). To activate a layer simply click the
For example, if you create an image with the layers enter a filename. When done, click Save. layer in the palette. You can always tell which layer is
numbered 1, 2 and 3 from the top down rather than Next you will see the Render Image dialog. Choose the current (active) layer by looking at the Document
from the bottom up, Canvas will rearrange the layers RGB Color for the mode and uncheck the Anti-Alias and Layout palette. The active layer is always highlighted.
into the default order when the image is placed into Mask check boxes. Click OK when done. In the Export
another Canvas document. To prevent this from JPEG dialog, choose 100% quality. When you click OK 11 Dragging layers
happening, always store layered images using the Canvas 6 will generate the file. To rearrange the layers place the mouse pointer on a 8

TIPS DENEBA CANVAS 6
ONE-CLICK FIX Click visibilty bullets to hide layers (you can only hide layers that are not activated)
? EXPLAINED
8
layer then drag and drop the layer on its new location. colour you wish to find and select it for replacement. layers’. This comes in handy when you have to select
While dragging, the pointer turns into a grabber hand. Next click Select. All objects filled with the chosen ink and align objects across layers. The Drawing tab
CONTEXT MENU will be selected. You are just a click away from assigning enables you to duplicate an object and paste it directly in
The context menu can be used for 12 Hiding layers a new fill ink. front of the original. For this set the x and y coordinates
both selecting and editing. When You can also hide layers from view. Notice the eye icon to zero in the ‘When duplicating objects offset’ section.
you need to edit an object in the near the top of the palette. This is the visibility column. 14 Creating new colours Note: you can also use Edit8Replicate using one copy
stack, use the Edit menu item to Clicking the bullet in the visibility column toggles the In Deneba Canvas the Inks palette is the control centre with an offset of zero and leave the default of 10 pixels
avoid double-clicking the mouse.
layer visibility on and off. for the creation and management of colours. You can in this preference.
Doing so would run the risk of
You cannot hide the current layer. To hide a layer, you load, append, save and clear new sets of colours, Next click the Painting tab and check ‘Anti-aliased
inadvertently repositioning the
object or activating a paint tool. must first activate another layer. Hiding layers is a means gradients, textures, symbols and hatches as well as Canvas objects’ as well as ‘Anti-aliased clipboard’ to
to select objects that lie directly under other objects. In modify existing sets. make sure selections and text objects will be anti-
the Preferences palette is a setting for allowing objects Start by clicking the triangle on the left of side of the aliased as a rule. Next click the Display tab and select
to be selected across visible layers. Hiding layers Inks palette to reveal the Colour manager. Using the RGB the ‘No preview’ radio button so transparent pixels in
prevents the selection and editing of objects. Bars, create a new colour. You will see a sample of the bitmap objects display by themselves with a
colour in the preview box. Next drag the new colour checkerboard pattern.
13 Using the Find command from the preview box into the colour inks grid with all There are some situations where anti-aliasing would
One of the most powerful ways to select objects is with the other colours. be undesirable and where using hard-edges would
the “Find” command. Canvas enables you to select actually work better. During image editing anti-aliasing
objects based on their attributes. In the example below, 15 Use the Preferences can leave unwanted halos (artifacts) around selections.
you can globally select and replace fill inks with the find Modify the preferences by clicking File8Preferences. First, Be sure to remember to clean these up after moving or
command: Click Edit8Find, then in the palette, select the in the General tab check ‘Select across visible cutting a selection.
Use the Levels and Curves commands built into

16 BRIGHTENING AN IMAGE Canvas to enhance your images
8 8
0 EXPERT TIP 01 GO INTO EDIT MODE

Click with any painting tool to place it in edit 02 CLICK TWO POINTS
We want to lighten the highlights more than 03 DRAG THE POINTS
Drag the left and right points upwards. The
NICK MERRIT mode. The first adjustment will be to the the shadows. Click two points on the diagonal right point is dragged higher than the left point
MANAGING EDITOR brightness values across the entire image. Click line as shown below. The red circle on the left is for the to lighten highlights more than shadows.The brass areas
EDIT MODES Image8Adjust8Curves. shadows and the one on the right is for the highlights. look good but the dial still has some shadows.
Use the Edit menu item when
editing an item in the stack to
avoid double clicking.
PAINT OBJECTS
8 8
To edit an unselected paint object
at the top of the stack directly
under the mouse pointer, click on
the object with any paint tool. This
will put the object into edit mode.
CONTEXT MENU
The context menu can be used for
both selecting and editing. When
you need to edit an object in the MAKE A SELECTION ADJUST THE SIZE FINISHED RESULTS
stack, use the Edit menu item to 04 To make adjustments to part of an image you
05 If the selection is too big or too small you can
06 Click the Preview check box and drag the
avoid double-clicking the mouse.
need to make a selection. Select the Oval adjust its size by clicking Image8Select8 contrast slider to the right to increase the
Doing so would run the risk of
inadvertently repositioning the Marquee tool and with Windows Ctrl-Drag a selection from Modify and choose either Expand or Contract. When you contrast slightly. This will brighten the highlights and
object or activating a paint tool. the centre of the dial outwards (with Mac begin dragging are satisfied with the selection marquee, click Image darken the shadows and will tend to make the
before pressing Control). 8Adjust8Brightness/Contrast. muddy areas disappear.

This is a technique few people think to pursue, so you’ll add a totally fresh dimension to your work. You
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WHY YOU’LL LOVE can make the subject of a shot a lot more ambiguous, and perhaps use the result to inspire other kinds
THIS TECHNIQUE of artwork. Who knows, maybe you’ll inspire someone else to experiment in this way too?
YOUR GUIDE SIMON DANAHER

Simon is a digital artist specialising in Photoshop, compositing and 3D.
He has been working professionally in the graphics industry for over six
years, and is writing a book on professional graphics techniques
letters.dcm@futurenet.co.uk BEFORE & AFTER POSITIVE TO NEGATIVE
Negative images
Creating black and white negatives and effects is something you might not have tried before.
You’d be amazed how great pictures can take on a new dimension with this technique
reating negative images is very simple in Elements and can be used to One of the great things, though, is that Elements gives you a huge amount of scope
C
TUTORIAL
KEY DETAILS create some striking variations of your favourite pictures. Given the right
subject matter a negative can be artistically interesting in its own right. But
for experimentation. The trick is to not get too carried away and to always keep in
mind roughly the effect you want to achieve. We'll look at making an interesting
2 SKILL BOOSTER as there is always more than one way to skin a cat in Photoshop and Elements we'll
have a look at the different possibilities on offer.
negative black and white image from a colour one but also explore some different
effects using the same techniques.
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20 MINUTES
CONVERT TO GRAYSCALE REDUCE SATURATION DESTRUCT CREATIVELY INVERT ADJUSTMENT

01 Open the file rocker.jpg. There 02 Another way to do this is to 03 To destructively create a 04 Finally, you can use the Invert
0 EXPERT TIP are a few ways to create a

black and white negative of it. Firstly
keep the image in RGB mode
but add a Hue/Saturation adjustment
negative of the image you
can select the background layer and
Adjustment layer. Like all
adjustment layers it doesn’t affect the
use the Image8Mode8Grayscale layer. By reducing the Saturation sliders type command-i. This inverts the values actual pixels on the layers below, it acts
SIMON DANAHER
LAYERS command. Now you can no longer use to -100% all colour is removed. This will of the pixels on the layer creating the more like a filter that changes how they
BLENDING MODES any kind of colour in the file. look slightly different to the first one. negative of the image. look – in this case inverts them.
Difference and Exclusion blending
modes are very closely related;
always try them both as one
usually suits an effect better
than the other.
BLEND MODES DUPLICATE LAYERS OVERLAY MODE CREATE A SKETCH

05 Inverted adjustment enables 06 Duplicating the Invert layer 07 Changing the lower of the 08 Going further we have
? EXPLAINED us to try different blending creates a slightly wild effect two Invert adjustment layers created a sketch-like look to
modes. Here we've set the Invert layer caused by the interaction of the two to Overlay mode produces something the image by adding yet another Invert
GRAYSCALE to Difference mode. This creates an Difference blending modes applied to altogether more moody and interesting. adjustment layer, set to the Exclusion
Tan image made up of only shades
of gray, with no colour. effect like Solarization – parts of the the Invert adjustment layers. The effect The girl's profile is plunged into shadow, blending mode, then increased the
image are inverted and others are not. looks really digitally affected though. creating a silhouette on the window. contrast using a Levels Adjustment layer.

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Shooting graphic
elements
There are many compositional techniques you can employ to make your
photo pack a bigger visual punch. Tim Daly explains how to further
increase your success rate by looking for dynamic subjects
G
raphic elements such as lines, squares, both photographers made careful compositional
arrows and lettering, combined with primary judgements into memorable images.
ABOVE Shiny metal car bodies colours, form the essential ingredients
give great reflections and can for attention-grabbing photographs. It’s no coincidence Diagonals and lines
be arranged into dynamic that road signs and symbols use clean colours and We live in a world where straight lines predominate
compositions. This image was bold shapes to get their message across safely and with straight-edged vertical buildings and straight lines
shot from a low viewpoint without delay. on the pavement. Diagonal lines are rarer and much
with a wide-angle lens to Geometric shapes exist all around us, but you have to more likely to grab our attention when captured in a
emphasise the car lights emphasise them with tight cropping and adventurous photographic composition. When out on location, try to
viewpoints. The great American street photographers, organise diagonal lines in your viewfinder by moving
RIGHT With diagonals forced Robert Frank and Lee Friedlander, produced images your own shooting position – either by shooting from
into the corners of the picture based on the signs and symbols of urban life in the slightly above or by raising one side of the camera
frame, this image looks much 1950s and 1960s. Out on street level, and faced with so higher than the other. This will have the effect of
more dynamic many choices about which parts of the scene to include, pushing lines and shapes towards the corner of your

Use your software Crop tool to re-design your images and you may find that they look stronger NEXT MONTH
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FURTHER as squares or in the panoramic format. In complex compositions, you may even discover that 5 SHOOTING A PHOTO
DOCUMENTARY
INSPIRATION you can pull out two separate images from one original image file
LEFT At close range, primary colours can make an create exciting, distorted shapes and enable you to force
appealing image, even out of seemingly together seemingly unconnected parts into a much
throwaway objects more striking image.
Headlights, wheels and shiny tubular elements make
example, the fast-disappearing worlds of traditional great photographic details that can really emphasise the
railways and docks are crammed full of fantastic graphic style of the period. Rather than use a macro lens at
signs and details that evoke the golden age of close range, better results will be achieved using a super
engineering. Close-up details of ironwork, rivets and wide-angle setting or wide-angle lens adaptor close up.
complex mechanics can offer worthy photographic There’s always the danger that at such close range you’ll
subjects when shot in natural light. spot your own reflection in a shiny surface or metallic
With seemingly ordinary subjects, your first attempts detail, but this can be removed with the Clone Stamp
can be less than perfect because you haven’t been tool in most digital image-editing applications.
adventurous enough with your viewfinder crop. Don’t be
afraid to omit important bits of a subject if it makes a Vintage style
stronger design. You can improve the composition of With many vintage and classic car associations meeting
your images at a later stage by using the Crop tool in on a regular basis, access to stylish machines has
your image-editing program. never been easier. A great idea for making graphic
How much information do you really need in order to shots of cars is to complement them with a style that
identify a shape or subject? Much less than you think. reflects the period. When taking this kind of picture,
Close-up photographs can make a kind of visual puzzle select an appropriate background behind your subject,
where it can take a little while to identify the source of making sure all modern elements are kept out of the
the subject. Close-up textures taken from man-made picture frame. Telegraph poles, television aerials and
objects – particularly bright colours – can form a good street signs date an image, and may ruin the effect you
project or series. Why not visit a scrap heap, fairground want to achieve.
or classic car event? These examples can provide plenty After shooting your source material, consider
of unusual photo opportunities. mimicking the look and feel of a vintage photograph by
digitally toning the image a rich sepia or light blue using
viewfinder frame, producing visually stronger results. Style and design the Colorize command in Photoshop’s Hue/Saturation
Armed with the luxury of an LCD playback, you can If you’re excited by the design and look of a finely-tuned dialog box.
easily compare different crops or experiments while still vehicle, then photography is the perfect way to pay
out on location. If your camera has a zoom lens, try homage. Badges, logos, engines and body details can all Tilting your camera
using it at its wide-angle setting for a more distorted, be captured in graphic single frames to glorify the There’s no golden rule stating that verticals always have
but dynamic picture. unique style of the shape. If you want to get in close, it’s to be kept vertical. Tilting your camera is a good
When shooting with a wide angle, lines and shapes a good idea to use a wide-angle lens because it will technique to use for creating a dynamic diagonal.
become flexible – especially at close quarters – so you
can make a more interesting image. Professional studio
and industrial photographers often use a wide-angle
lens to create graphic images of seemingly uninteresting
products and industrial equipment.
Primary colours
Primary colours are visually striking and always make
great photographs – especially if shot under bright 3 IN DETAIL
sunlight. When combined with primaries, complex
CONSTRUCTION SITE
and interlocking graphic shapes demand all the If you’re stuck for ideas, check out
photographer’s attention and skill in order to juggle the the photographic work of Alexander
conflicting elements to make a strong image. Rodchenko. Part of the Russian
Like a jigsaw, brightly coloured graphic images are Constructivist art movement,
Rodchenko’s photographs are
broken into many colour compartments and can need shot from the most unusual
several attempts before the right composition is found. viewpoints like a bird’s eye view
Always shoot around your subject until you’ve found the and a worm’s eye view. His best
right angle of view and composition – even a slight images distort portraits into curious
shapes because of the very low
repositioning of the camera to the left or right can give
viewpoint he used, and the way he
a radically different result. represented ordinary people as
statue-like hero figures.
Signs and symbols
Even the most mundane subject can make a worthy
shot when it’s turned into an abstract or simple colour
study. Many subjects have their own unique symbols
that can make a fascinating documentary project. For
LEFT Close-up shots of signs and symbols like this

number on the side of a fishing boast can add detail
to a larger photo essay

* WEB LINKS RIGHT Natural subjects can benefit too from the
same kind of approach as, as this carefully organised
study of textured rocks shows
LEE FRIEDLANDER
www.masters-of-
photography.com/F/friedlander/f Simply lower one of your hands and hold the
riedlander5.htm camera until you’ve got a line running from one corner
Check out the master of American of your frame to the other. Although it’s possible to
street photography and view his reproduce the same effect with the Rotate tool in your
complex compositions.
software application, you can end up discarding a large
quantity of the original pixels, leaving less data available
ALEXANDER RODCHENKO
www.masters-of- to print out.
photography.com/R/rodchenko/r When focusing on subjects above your eye level,
odchenko4.html try tilting your camera to rearrange lines and shapes
The great Russian photographer and until you’ve made a stronger composition. You can
artist made a virtue out of shooting pull one side of the camera towards you to create an
his photographs from the most
exaggerated perspective that will be more dynamic
inventive angles of view.
when shot with a wider lens. When making this kind of
WILLIAM KLEIN adjustment, don’t forget that you may need to set a
www.masters-of- new point of focus.
photography.com/K/klein/
klein2.html Architectural subjects
Where other photographers looked
Contemporary architecture is another great subject to
for inanimate shapes to base their
designs on, Klein used the hurly
photograph. Try out some graphic picture-making
burly of people in the city for his techniques in conjunction with your zoom lens fixed on
stunning work. its telephoto setting. Designed on paper by architectural
designers, most new buildings offer a stunning mixture between different structures for dominance. to help you compose your photograph. Set slightly to
of lines, shapes and colours waiting to be interpreted When shooting this kind of subject, try to find a one side, the rangefinder window can show more
and arranged by your camera lens. viewpoint well above ground level, so you can shoot of a subject than you will end up with when it’s
For far-off buildings – or those too high to reach – try across the city rooftops to capture a greater sense of printed out. Be wary of framing your photograph too
using your zoom lens on its longest telephoto setting. distance. Wide-angle lenses in this situation push your tightly to the edges of your viewfinder, as peripheral
This will help to crop out any unwanted elements nearest subjects much further away in the viewfinder details may not be recorded. It’s much better to step
that cause a visual distraction. This creates interesting and make them seem smaller and less significant. back a bit or set your lens to a slightly wider angle and
effects because of foreshortening – where the actual leave a visible space at the edges. With non-viewfinder
physical distance between objects appears reduced. Viewfinder cropping cameras such as digital SLRs and those with a
Used in the built-up surroundings of a busy modern Many digital compact cameras are fitted with a camcorder-type LCD viewfinder, less cropping mistakes
city, foreshortening can really emphasise the fight rangefinder window on the side of the camera body, are made out in the field.
@ SEND ’EM IN! ABOVE A telephoto lens is the perfect tool to use for
comparing different subjects in the same shot. This
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LEFT With one side at close range, a tilting composition
gallery.dcm@futurenet.co.uk can lead your attention from the near edge to the far
edge of the picture

Seeing the world

in monochrome
Don’t despair about lack of colour and strong sunlight during the cold winter months – get out
and shoot some moody black and white photos instead. Tim Daly shows you how…
S
ABOVE A low contrast hooting with black and white film has long image with a brown tint attached. A better option is to
treatment can make an image been established as the all-time favourite with shoot using normal RGB colour mode, followed by a
look historic, and can be used traditional photographers. In the digital era, conversion process in your image-editing application.
to emphasise gentler subjects monochrome photography has even more potential. With a comprehensive assortment of tools for converting
Conventional back and white photography has colour to black and white, it’s not necessary to start with
FAR RIGHT Monochrome is an developed over the past century and a half as a craft a monochrome original.
ideal way to record a gritty skill rather than just a technical picture-taking process. At Even if you’re shooting conventional film and using a
documentary subject and the darkroom stage, photographers can reinterpret an film scanner to convert negative into digital files, it’s
focuses attention on real- original negative in many different styles. Contrast, tone better to shoot colour negative rather than panchromatic
life situations and colour tints can be applied to an image to enhance black and white film stock. In addition to having the
flat lighting and bring out lurking textures that wouldn’t option to print in colour or monochrome, starting with a
be revealed in a machine-processed print. colour film or digital original gives you the valuable asset
Apart from the real skill in the post-production of of original colour values that you can remix and
stylish black and white photography, you have to be able rebalance before conversion takes place.
to spot potential monochrome images when strong
colours are largely absent. When natural light is dull and Pictorial and realist
your subject colours don’t exactly sing out loud, a photographic techniques
monochrome interpretation can add warmth and punchy There are two opposing black and white photographic
contrast to the most mundane situations. styles that have developed into popular ways to work.
Although many digital compacts offer an additional The pictorial style is based on seeing the innate beauty
sepia shooting option, this is really just a crude RGB in the world around us and converting this into visually

LEFT A pictorial treatment works best with a to visualise a black and white photograph while
landscape subject such as this composition, which shooting on location, but you’ll get great quality results if
contrasts different and subtle textures you concentrate on some or all of the following
essential elements.
pictorial and make a virtue out of subtle and delicate
image tones. Subtle contrast subjects
The realist style is based on seeing things as they are, The difference in shades of grey arranged between the
and not dressed up to look better or more palatable black shadow and white highlight point is called contrast
for the viewer. In a style often used by newspaper in traditional photography, and brightness in digital
photojournalists and based on clear, contrasty and imaging. Pixel brightness can be made darker and
graphic statements, hard-hitting black and white images lighter simply, and this enables the user to separate and
don’t pull any punches, and can look stylish in their enhance different areas of the image to create a totally
own, unique way. different visual balance.
Yet you don’t need to live near an awesome Unlike straight colour photography, where little
landscape or the gritty reality of an inner city to apply tonal manipulation can occur without looking invented,
these styles to your own work. black and white interpretation can be highly
individualistic. With a good mixture of pure black and
Looking for subjects white and a full range of greys in between, an image
Where colour photography is a chocolate box of with a subtle contrast presents a seamless jump from
different visual treats, black and white is about light highlights to shadows.
and its stunning effects. Many photographic situations Software controls like Levels and Curves are ideal for
don’t present the photographer with a rich and varied putting proper black and white points into a low contrast
selection of colour and, at worse, they are insipid image, and can be used to shift the balance of the mid-
and uninspiring. tone greys. In addition to correcting low and high
With a black and white conversion in your image- contrast images, software tools can give the user an
editing application, undesirable colours can be removed opportunity to express their creative ideas through the
attractive images. Pictorial photographers have been and replaced with a punchier tonal range for a better printed end-product. Subtle contrast with a colour
around since the birth of the medium visual effect. Colour can easily date a photograph to
in 1839 and take great effort to find rare subjects, a particular year or time of the year, but this can BELOW Bland colour images can easily be made
events or scenes that can be captured and preserved be removed by a simple change to monochrome more interesting after a straightforward conversion
before they disappear. Most great landscape images are for a more timeless and classic feel. It’s very hard from RGB to Grayscale mode
3 IN DETAIL
PRINTING BLACK
AND WHITE
Although most inkjet printers offer
the option to print in black ink only,
much better results can be made
using all your ink colours in colour
printing mode. Using a single ink
colour, your printer will have its
resolution cut to a quarter or a sixth
of its full potential and will give you
speckly and coarse contrast results.
Although it can be difficult to make
a monochrome print that is cast-
free using colour inks, slight colour
casts are easily removed using the
colour control slider in your colour
printing software. For a really
special kind of printing, consider
using one of the Lyson Small
Gamut inksets – cleverly designed
cartridges that are charged with
neutral monochrome or toned inks
for top-quality black and white
output. Check them out at
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TOP The Duotone dialog box offers the opportunity

to exercise infinite control over monochrome image
tone using Curves
RIGHT This image was toned using Photoshop’s

Duotone image mode and shows a delicate mix of
different colours
change to enhance your images can be produced

using Photoshop’s versatile Duotone mode, where up to
four colours can be assigned to precise tonal sectors in
an image.
Once loaded and manipulated into shape, duotone
images can rival the most skillfully toned photographic
print ever made in the darkroom. Best of all, you don’t
need to be an expert using Curves to control contrast
because Photoshop comes armed with loads of pre-
mixed duotone colour recipes. You can apply the colours
directly to your images by pressing the Load button in
the Duotone dialog box. it’s based on a strong issue or theme and is an excellent Output scale in your Levels dialog box. By pulling both
way to shoot portraits in the natural light. highlight and shadow points towards the centre, you’ll
High contrast subjects make the darkest areas of the image dark grey instead
When strong whites and blacks are present with very Low contrast of black and change any white highlights into a flatter,
few accompanying grey tones, the result is said to be With no black or white, the low contrast image is light grey.
high contrast. Best suited to strong shaped subjects, high derived from an expanded range of greys and can be an
contrast effects enhance lines, edges and textures and expressive and atmospheric way to interpret a subject. Converting to black and white
are the way to get a bit of realism into your work. The With a softness associated with vintage photographic After shooting your colour originals, Photoshop offers
end result of a high contrast print is usually a strong, processes such as platinum and carbon tissue, the low three ways to make the conversion from colour to
graphic image that attracts attention. As a by-product of contrast image can be very effective on portraits and monochrome, but only one involves the seemingly
the process, finer details found in mid-tone grey areas flower subjects. obvious Grayscale mode. After switching your mode
disappear, so this kind of style is best used when you Spotting potential images for the vintage treatment from RGB to Grayscale, your results will always look flat
don’t require a delicate image. can be tricky at first, but keep a close eye on background and lack any vibrancy that was present before the
High contrast subjects are usually found under bright details, such as telegraph poles, street signs and parked change. Once changed to Grayscale mode (incidentally,
sunlight, but excessively high contrast can be challenging cars, as these will date a picture. When shooting producing identical results to making a Desaturate
to print out on a desktop inkjet because darker grey standard RGB colour mode images with your digital command within the RGB mode), there are no colour-
areas fill in and reproduce as black. This style is a good camera, you’ll need to change the tonal range of your editing tools available for you to use. For a punchier
way to shoot a photo story out on location, particularly if image after uploading it to your computer by using the conversion, try converting your RGB colour image into
the little-used Lab mode.
In Lab mode, colour and image lightness is kept
separate in three different channels: one for lightness
and two for colour. Open the Channels palette and drag
both colour channels into the wastebasket, leaving a
brighter monochrome lightness channel image that can
be converted back to RGB for colour editing. The third
and most versatile way to make a conversion is to use
the Channel Mixer command – found in both Photoshop
and Paint Shop Pro – to alter the balance of image
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original, much in the same way as black and white
ABOVE Three ways to convert from RGB to monochrome are as follows: mode change to Grayscale is shown photographers use deep colour filters to make blue skies gallery.dcm@futurenet.co.uk
second from the left; change to Lab mode third from the left, and a Channel mixer conversion at the far right appear black, and green foliage to appear white.

PHOTO HELP Q&A
YOUR GUIDE AIDAN O’ROURKE
Aidan O’Rourke is a freelance photographer who’s worked with digital imaging
and photography since 1994. He created ‘Eyewitness in Manchester’ (part of
Manchester Online, the Manchester Evening News website), the largest online
source of photo and info about Manchester. See the URL opposite for more
details on Aidan’s digital photography seminars around the country
help.dcm@futurenet.co.uk (camera queries only) WEBSITE www.aidan.co.uk/seminars
All your camera

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Send all your technical questions to Aidan at help.dcm@futurenet.co.uk and he’ll do his best to help…
2 2 2
QUESTIONS The card reader has saved my bacon I recommend the Nikon Coolpix
ANSWERED on many occasions and, considering range of cameras, which have
CAMERA USE some of them cost less than £30, excellent macro capability, with an
USING A CARD READER 090 ADVANTAGES OF USING A they are excellent value for money. I’d ability to focus on a subject as little REMOVING RED EYE
MACRO PHOTOGRAPHY 090 CARD READER USING A CARD READER recommend you buy one and keep it as a couple of centimetres away. IMAGE EDITING
INSTALLING PLUG-INS 092 CAMERA USE in reserve. Macro photographs give us a ■■ INTERMEDIATE
MEMORY CARD SIZES 093 ■ BEGINNER marvellous view of small objects, Unfortunately I missed the
Q
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I have a FujiFilm FinePix 4800. whether they be flowers, jewels, first issue of Digital Camera
IMAGE EDITING
REMOVING RED EYE 090
Q What advantage is there to be coins or other subjects. You’ll see Magazine, which had an article about
IMAGE MANAGEMENT 091 gained from using a card reader? I just truly amazing details revealed that how to remove red eye in photos. Is it
MAKING A PANORAMA 092
plug the cradle into my PC and the INFORMATION ABOUT wouldn’t easily be visible to the possible to use Photoshop 5.5 to
SHARING IMAGES 092
CONVERGING VERTICALS 093 pictures go straight in – the cradle is MACRO CAPABILITIES naked eye. The Nikon macro facility remove red eye? If not, can you
plugged into the mains so I can’t see CAMERA USE is one of the best, but you’ll also recommend any other software
PRINTERS any advantage in having one. ■■ INTERMEDIATE find it on other cameras – keep your program that I can use?
PRINTER PROBLEMS 093 Roy Turrell I am looking for a general- eyes peeled! Darren
Q purpose camera and can
MEDIA
I can think of many situations spend up to £400. I want to do macro
BOOKS
WEBSITE
093
091, 093
A when you might be glad of a photography, but I can’t find any
card reader: information about how close I can focus
1) When your camera battery is with any of the digital cameras, in any
low, and you don’t want to use any of the camera reviews I’ve read. I
more power while you are transferring usually fill the full viewfinder with
your pictures. about 2-10mm objects, but sometimes
2) When your battery is dead, and you they are as large as 40mm.
don’t have another to hand. Max D Freier
3) When you’re using a borrowed
camera, and you don’t have the The information regarding the
compatible USB cable.
A macro capabilities of digital
4) When you’ve lost your precious USB camera lenses should be listed in
cable, and your supplier doesn’t have the technical specifications. Just
any in stock. go to the camera manufacturer’s
5) When you’re using several memory website or other resource, and
Photo cards, and you wish to download from

them one after the other without
having to open and close the camera.
download the specs, which are often
in PDF format. Study them carefully –
it’s an essential part of choosing a
Help
6) When you’d like to continue camera. If the camera has macro
photographing with the camera while capabilities, it should be mentioned
The Macro setting enables you to see things that are normally too small for the naked eye to see.
downloading – only a card reader there – it might not be mentioned in In this case, I positioned the Nikon Coolpix camera close up to my laptop screen, revealing the
enables you to do this. a camera review. luminous red, green and blue strips

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www.ephotozine.com and experience. The website is the brainchild of highly
Content www.ephotozine.com is an online digital experienced editor and journalist Peter Bargh. The
photography magazine, which offers news, reviews, reviews are friendly in tone, readable and informative. It’s
forums, tutorials and lots more. It’s aimed at people an online ‘zine’ with a personal touch.
2 TWO WAYS TO ZAP RED EYE

Red eye is a recurring problem.
A There are different types of
red eye and various methods to fix
it. In fact, a whole book could be The essential task is to turn the red area of the pupil to black, while preserving the light reflection
written on the subject. Many image-
editing packages offer ‘quick fix’ red- PERFECTIONIST
eye correction, which works by
automatically selecting the area of red
and desaturating it to grey.
The results often look unnatural
because there is still a glow visible in
the eyes. To fix red eye properly, you
have to spend a little more time. I
have two main methods of fixing red
eye (see the box opposite). They can First draw a circular area over the Using the Paint Brush or Paint Bucket, Instead, select the catch light from the
be used in any photo-editing program reddened pupil. To give precise control tools fill the circle with black. The eye background layer using the Magic
that uses Layers, including Photoshop over size, use the circular Marquee now looks much better, but we Wand, which should be set to anti-
versions 5 to 7 and Paint Shop Pro. tool, holding the Shift key down to have hidden the catch light. How can aliased. The Marquee encloses the
constrain it to a circle. It should be we restore it? You can try painting white area, plus neighbouring pixels.
2
about the same size as, or slightly one of your own but it will not look
larger than, the affected pupil. convincing – try it!
PHOTO-MANAGEMENT
SOFTWARE
IMAGE MANAGEMENT
■■ INTERMEDIATE
I’m interested in organising my
Q photos before I’ve got too many
to keep track of them. I want to be able
to catalogue them in at least six
different ways: category, subject, Now paste in the selected area, Paint around the edge of the pupil Make the pupil look natural by
location, quality, source, nature of creating a third layer – it’s satisfying to using a sample taken from the reducing the opacity to 80%, allowing
modification, as well as using EXIF see the catch light appear and the eye neighbouring colour. Make a new a little of the desaturated iris colour to
information. look natural again. Gain extra pleasure layer set to Colour and paint using show through. Finally, a small amount
Dennis Waite by toggling between the ‘before’ and the Brush tool. Select the remaining needs to be shaved off the top of the
‘after’ states using the Layer ‘on’ and red area and using Image8Adjust8 pupil in line with the upper eyelid.
There are many photo- ‘off’ button! Hue/Saturation, desaturate it to grey.
A organisation programs that
enable you to sort and browse QUICK-FIX
through your photographs. They all
perform basically the same task,
which is to display thumbnail
versions of the photographs, giving
you an overview of your collection.
You can enter extra information, ? EXPLAINED
enabling you to classify and search
for specific photos more easily. One of
INTERPOLATION
Interpolation takes place when
the most impressive is iPhoto, Open the file and duplicate the layer, Go back to the upper layer and, using Go down to the background layer and picture information from individual
bundled free with Macintosh so you have two copies of the photo, the Delete tool with the brush set use the Levels control (Image8 pixels is reprocessed and
computers. Photoshop 7 includes an one on top of the other. Desaturate approximately to the size of the Adjustments8Levels) to darken it. recombined to make a larger or
image browser, which enables you to the background layer using pupil, make one or two clicks to Drag the slider until the grey has smaller image – that is, one with
access EXIF information. larger or smaller pixel dimensions
Image8Adjust8Hue/Saturation to reveal the desaturated or grey turned nearly to black. The whole
than the original. On some digital
On more thing: before going onto remove colour from the picture, version underneath. Make a 'hole' layer has been darkened, but we can
cameras, the picture information is
invest time and money in a photo- including the red in the eyes. with the Eraser brush using just a only see the pupil through the ‘hole’ interpolated upwards to create an
management program, think carefully click or two. we’ve made in the upper layer. image with larger pixel dimensions.
about filenames.

PHOTO HELP Q&A
EMAIL AIDAN! Send your digital photography queries to Aidan at help.dcm@futurenet.co.uk This email address is for technical problems only. See page 3 page for other problems
V TECH FOCUS are ‘bolted’ onto the main program, like

A
There are many software anything I can do to prevent them?
2
modules. Installing them is easy. packages available for making Bernard Longley
Photoshop and Elements have a panoramas, but often I prefer to join
THE FUJIFILM 3RD subdirectory named plug-ins – simply together the images myself. Place the This can be quite a problem.
GENERATION SUPER CCD INSTALLING PLUG-IN copy the plug-in module and place it in photos you wish to join together on two
A Many people unwittingly
What is it? FujiFilm’s 3rd Generation FILTER EFFECTS the plug-ins folder. When the program separate layers so they overlap, then send me enormous image files that
Super CCD (charge coupled device) CAMERA USE
takes digital camera technology
launches, the plug-in will then be carefully delete the upper layer to would tie up my phone line for half
■ BEGINNER available to the program under the reveal other one underneath. an hour or more. I have discovered an
further by radically altering and
improving the design, layout and Please can you explain how to Filters drop-down menu. I’ve taken an example – two easy way to ‘zap’ the offending
functionality of the conventional CCD. Q install and use plug-in filters and images that have been joined attachments before they even reach
2
This is the third incarnation of the effects. I understand that many of these together in the box below. my in-box – using my Internet Service
product since it was launched in
are produced for Photoshop and Provider’s webmail service.
2
1999. The Super CCD delivers a
Photoshop Elements. I often see them There are different names for it
choice of resolutions – 1m, 3m and
6m (1,280 x 960, 2,048 x 1,536 and referred to, but it’s often assumed that JOINING PICTURES TO but, basically, you can view your
2,880 x 1,920, respectively), and we all know how to use plug-ins – I feel MAKE A PANORAMA incoming messages online before
performs exceptionally well at low fairly sure this is not the case! IMAGE EDITING SHARING IMAGES VIA downloading them, and if there are
light conditions. It also delivers VGA Roland Williams ■■ INTERMEDIATE THE WEB any you’d rather not receive –
size full motion video. I would like to make panoramic CAMERA USE particularly those with over-sized
Plug-in filters add extra
Q pictures by joining several ■■■ BEGINNER/INTERMEDIATE attachments – you can delete them. If
How it works: Those ingenious A functionality to a basic program, pictures together. Is it possible to do People often send me huge you have broadband, then those
designers at FujiFilm did a total
rethink of the existing CCD, and extending its capabilities. They are often it manually?
Q image attachments that huge and unwanted image
decided to rotate the entire array of written by independent developers and Paul Marquez take ages to download. Is there attachments will download quickly
photo sensors by 45 degrees. Using
2 JOINING PHOTOS TO MAKE PANORAMAS

this arrangement, and by making
them octagonal, more of them can
be packed into the same area,
providing more detail. The Super Photos captured on the FujiFIlm FinePix F601 with Super CCD
CCD’s processing technology takes
the output from this diagonally-
(See the portfolio photo on page 88, which consists of ten images joined together)
aligned array of sensors and
interpolates it into a digital image
with pixels arranged in the standard
way, horizontally and vertically. The
Super CCD can achieve great low
light results by using the output of
sensors grouped into four. Four
sensors in theory gives you four
times the amount of light. The ‘four
into one’ low-light feature – up to
1600 ASA – is used with the 1,280 x
960 (1M pixels) picture size. There is
noticeable noise, but the results are Here are the two pictures we are about Before we join any photos to make Use a guideline to check the horizon is After increasing the canvas size of the
usable. Clear and vibrant 640 x 480 to join together. Note the similar a panorama, we need to rotate true. You can drag it down from the left-hand picture, drag the right-hand
video is achieved in a similar way. areas at the neighbouring edges of the them so the horizon is absolutely Ruler area at the top. The correct picture onto it using the Move tool.
two photos. horizontal in both pictures. Use Edit8 rotation in this case is -1.5 degrees. Now the two pictures are in one file,
Does it do what they say it does? Transform8Rotate. The other photo also needs rotating – overlapping, placed on two separate
We’ve been trying out FujiFilm’s
by -3.4 degrees. layers. It’s important to try to line up
FinePix F601 camera over the past
few weeks. The Super CCD really
the areas to be deleted.
does produce vibrant and sharp
images in low light, with superb
colour and detail. You can see
examples of my photographs in the
December Dusk Views update of my
website (Eyewitness in Manchester
www.manchesteronline.co.uk/
ewm). FujiFilm’s PDF file explaining
how the Super CCD works can be
found at www.steves-digicams.com
/2002_reviews/fuji_f601z.html
Nudge the upper layer side to side Make the erased upper layer fully Delete down over the plane fuselage Select ‘Merge layers’ to combine the
and up and down, switching the layer visible by switching off the and over the apron, revealing the two pictures onto the background
off and on to check the position. We background layer underneath. The lower layer. Use of the delete tool to layer. Crop the photo to cut away the
can now start to erase the upper layer lower left-hand edge still needs to be disguise the join. Use the Levels to uneven edges left after the rotation.
using the Delete tool set to airbrush. erased. Set the erase tool to a smaller tweak the upper picture until the There, finished! Who would have
To disguise the join, erase along the size to avoid ‘ghosting’. colours along the join are the same. guessed that this photo consists of two
inside of the cloud. pictures joined together?

Jaggies is the common name for pixels that are visible along diagonal
4
FURTHER lines. They are caused by lower resolution images being displayed too
INFORMATION large, causing the pixels to be visible to the naked eye
8
MANUFACTURER SITE us interested in digital photography are the mini-sites on
www.panasonic.co.uk the SD memory card, which as the site explains, is not just
Content: The website of the Japanese company is a suite of for storing photos from digital cameras, and on Panasonic’s
websites all of similar design, with attractive Flash- highly desirable range of Lumix digital cameras, produced
powered animated menus. Of special interest to those of in association with Leica.
and, if you’re not careful, your email The number of images a

folder will become clogged with
A memory card can store depends
hundreds of megabytes of unwanted on its size. If each photo is about 1MB,
data. Exercise caution, and if you then a 64MB card should be able to
don’t want it, zap it! store around 60 pictures, and a 256MB
card should be able to store around 250
2
shots. If the file size is larger, then
you’ll only be able to store about half
this number.
DEALING WITH On a trip like this you can easily take
PRINTER PROBLEMS a thousand or more photos, so you’d
PRINTER need ten 256MB cards, costing about
■ BEGINNER the same as a laptop computer. And
I have a problem with my Epson that’s one possibility I’d suggest – get a
Q 890. It has started printing my laptop computer and download the
photos in a pale blue colour with dark images as you go along…
pink in shadows and black areas as
2
normal. I have checked all settings,
cleaned the head and reinstalled the
print driver. Please can you help me
work out what is wrong. HOW TO SORT
David Horton CONVERGING VERTICALS This photo of a floodlit building taken at night sent by Martin Sheehan has converging verticals –
IMAGE EDITING correcting the perspective in Photoshop may improve it
Inkjet printers have reached ■■ INTERMEDIATE

A a remarkable state of I’ve taken photos of buildings
sophistication and cost a fraction of
Q at wide angle and have noticed
what they used to a few years ago. that they are guilty of ‘converging
But, like all items of hardware, they
are still prone to malfunction. Buying
verticals’ or ‘triangles’. Is there a
tool in Photoshop 5.5 that can help me
; READ ON
a new cartridge can solve many printing to sort these out so that the building CAPTURING THE IMAGE –
YOUR GUIDE TO CREATING
problems, but sometimes the problem looks straight on the edges and less DIGITAL IMAGES
lies elsewhere – possibly inside the like a triangle? I’ve enclosed the picture Published by Rotovision
machine. If the printer is under (above right) Price £14.95
warranty, the manufacturer should be Martin Sheehan Written by Joe Farace
able to help. Buy from www.rotovision.com
I dealt previously with the

A
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problem of converging verticals
in issue one, so I won’t go into it in
detail here. Suffice to say that the
WHAT SIZE MEMORY CARD easiest way to correct them in
TO TAKE ON HOLIDAY Photoshop is by using either the
CAMERA USE Perspective or Distort functions under
■ BEGINNER the Transform menu. It’s an intuitive
I’m going to South America this ‘drag and click’ method that’s easy
Q year on a nature trek holiday. I and fun to use. Verdict A useful and attractively laid
want to be able to take reasonable However, there is another way, out paperback about digital
photography, focusing primarily on
pictures of scenery and wildlife. I have using the excellent plug-in utility
image capture. Plenty of technical
approximately £800 to spend on a ‘Panorama Tools’, which I introduced
info and author opinion. The images
digital camera and I have been in last month’s Q&A section. You can are in standard stock photography
provisionally looking at the Minolta find it on the Digital Photography style, which is less than inspiring. In
Dimage 7i. I will not be able to Review (dpreview) website at digital photography manuals we’d
download pictures until I get home, and www.dpreview.com. It is possible to prefer to see author-produced
What size memory card will I need, and download and install the tools, which photographs in a wide variety of
styles. Nevertheless, an
can you recommend a zoom lens enable you to carry out perspective
accomplished piece of work from a
attachment that may be useful? corrections on all kinds of photos by This photo was taken in the desert in Abu Dhabi in 2000. If you take a laptop computer with you on very experienced writer.
Karen Jones entering numerical values. your travels, you can download and edit photographs on the spot

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THE WINDOWS PAINT PROGRAM
Bundled free with Windows, Paint is perfect for
viewing photos or making minor tweaks to them
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WORKING THE NET
In the last of this series, Matthew Richards gives an
overview of your online options and resources
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COLOUR SETTINGS IN PHOTOSHOP
Using your colour management tools will give you
quality colour prints. Tim Daly shows you how
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TUTORIAL USING YOUR PC
YOUR GUIDE JOE CASSELS
Joe Cassels writes regular tutorials for a wide range of computer magazines. He
is an enthusiastic digital photographer with a track record of helping many
people get more from their PCs
joe@cassels.org.uk PORTFOLIO JOE CASSELS
Simple PC fixes using

the Paint program
You can still make small changes to digital pictures even if you don’t own dedicated picture-editing software.
Joe Cassels takes you through the process
T
he ideal way to manage your photos and If you’ve used Paint before, you may well have been the same amount both horizontally and vertically
TUTORIAL
pictures is to use an image editor like deceived by its simplicity. Earlier versions only handled which does roughly the same job.
KEY DETAILS Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro. These bitmap images, which made it unsuitable for handling You can also crop in Paint, by selecting the part of the
2 SKILL LEVEL professional programs enable you to alter the colour digital photographs, but the version of Paint that comes image you want to keep and copying it to the clipboard.
balance, contrast and brightness of pictures, as well as with Windows XP can cope with most common picture All you need to do is start a new image and paste the
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providing plenty of effects and filters. files. You can also undo your last three actions instead of section onto the empty canvas. You can even get
2 TIME TO COMPLETE However, If all you want to do is look at some holiday

snaps and perform some simple editing before printing
simply the previous one.
There is little in the way of dedicated photo-editing
around the flash photographer’s nightmare of red eye,
by carefully replacing the red pixels with a colour taken
20 MINUTES
or emailing them to a friend or relative, you don’t need
any extra software at all. Paint, the default program
tools, but you can still achieve some simple effects with
a little careful planning. For example, there’s no tool to
from any normal looking part of the eye, using the
dropper tool.
bundled with Windows, will handle it all admirably and automatically shrink or enlarge an image, but you can If you have a strict budget, and don’t want to do
for the nifty sum of no extra pounds. use the stretch and skew options to reduce an image by complicated editing, Paint may be all you need.
There’s no resize tool in Paint, but you can stretch

RESIZE AN IMAGE your image positively or negatively
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STRETCH AND SKEW STRETCH IT BACKWARDS THE FINISHED PICTURE

01 This picture won’t fit into the Paint Window, 02 Click Image8Stretch/Skew. Keep the Skew 03 Click OK. Here we’ve reduced the image to
even at full screen. We need to reduce its amounts at zero degrees, as we don’t want half its original size, using the Stretch/skew
size, but Paint doesn’t have a dedicated tool for doing to distort the image. Entering any number below facility and we can see the full picture. The picture
that. However, all is not lost as we can try to un- 100% in both the Horizontal and Vertical Stretch boxes quality hasn’t suffered in the process and this is a
stretch it, using the Stretch/Skew utility that comes will result in a smaller image with the same aspect much better size for working in Paint, as before you
with Paint. ratio as the original. could only see the full image by printing it out.

Some nifty cut-and-paste action is needed to 0 EXPERT TIP
CROPPING WITH PAINT achieve a crop in this picture JOE CASSELS
PHOTO ARCHIVING
NAMING FILES
Always save your photo under a
different filename by clicking File
Save As…, as soon as you open
it. This way, you can preserve a
copy of your original photo
before you make any changes to
it. If you mess up any of your
alterations, you can go back to a
pristine original very easily.
OPEN THE PHOTO LOCATE THE SUBJECT MAKE A SELECTION

01 Launch Paint by choosing Start8All 02 Use Paint’s scroll bars to move the item of 03 Click on the rectangular selection tool from
Programs8Accessories8Paint. Open your interest to the centre of the screen. Larger the toolbox on the left of the screen. Make
chosen picture by clicking File8Open and browsing to photos may not fit completely within the Paint sure the lower, ‘selection without background’ option
it. Switch to thumbnail view so you can find the window and you can’t zoom out, so careful is highlighted. Click and drag a rectangle around the
image you want more quickly. Click Open. positioning is important. area you want to crop to.
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RED EYE
This term describes the effect of a
photographic flash reflecting off a
person or animal’s retina, making
their eyes appear to glow red.
Using a flash not directly aimed at
the subject can avoid red eye, as
can careful lighting. However, you
can remove red eye from a digital
photograph using an image-
COPY THE SELECTION CREATE A NEW IMAGE PASTE CROPPED IMAGE editing program.
04 Once you are happy with the part of the 05 Click File8New. You will be prompted to 06 Select Edit8Paste so your selection
picture you selected, click Edit8Copy. This save changes to your image. Select No, so reappears. Save this with a different
puts your cropped area onto the clipboard. This way your original image is preserved prior to any changes filename to your initial picture. Experiment with
you can preserve the original image if you change you made. You are presented with a blank canvas different cropping areas to find the best composition.
your mind later on. onto which you can paste the selection. Save each image with a different filename.
DEMON EYES Remove red eye the Paint way
8 8 * WEB LINKS
Microsoft
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp
/default.asp
Information for beginners and
professionals, downloadable
software and technical support.
THE EYES HAVE IT AN EYE FOR AN EYE OUT DAMNED SPOT

01 Launch Paint and open the picture involved. 02 Select the dropper tool from the Toolbox 03 Now switch to the pencil tool and carefully
This girl in the middle is the one suffering and use it to pick up the colour from the replace the red pixels with the normal eye
from demonic eyes so we’ll need to edit this area of normal-looking eye. You may need to use a different colour. Choose View8Zoom8Normal size to check the
the picture. Choose View8Zoom8Large Size and use picture to reference the colour if both eyes look red. result. If you're happy with the result, save the
the scroll bars to position the eyes centrally in the Your reference photo must have the same subject and picture; if not, close and open the picture file without
window before you start work on them. similar lighting. saving the changes to start again.

TUTORIAL MAKE THE INTERNET WORK FOR YOU
YOUR GUIDE MATTHEW RICHARDS

Matthew Richards reviews digital cameras for worldwide specialist press, as well as being
a keen photographer, using both conventional 35mm outfits and digital systems. His main
areas of interest are sport, landscape and people photography
matthew.richards1@ukonline.co.uk PORTFOLIO MATTHEW RICHARDS
Working the net

Whatever you want out of the internet, we guarantee you’ll get more than you bargained for. Matthew Richards gives you the lowdown
on getting online, sharing your photos, choosing your print options and showcasing photos on your own website…
T
he internet has something to offer everyone, you’d even want to get online in the first place. all you need to do is to post your question in a forum
from an experienced digital photographer In the digital age, the internet is no longer one of online and you shouldn’t have to wait long for the
who’s never beren online, to someone taking life’s optional extras, especially if you’re into digital answers to come flooding in. There are plenty to choose
the leap from traditional photography to digital, and still photography. There are many different ways you can from – we’d recommend going to www.google.co.uk
finding their feet. In fact, the internet has so much to share your photos online but the practicality and and searching for ‘digital photography forum’ to get
offer, that sometimes it’s difficult to know where to start. advantages of the net go much further than that. For quick access to plenty of general forums as well as quite
Over the last few issues of Digital Camera Magazine, example, the web is an unparalleled source of a few specialised ones, like www.ukdiving.co.uk/
we’ve been looking at various ways of getting more out information on all the latest digital photography gadgets ukdiving/photoforum for digital underwater photography.
of the net, from online communities and ordering prints, and gear – complete with top opportunities for bargain
to web hosting and creating a full-on website. buys. Just compare some of the prices for memory cards How much does it cost?
This month, in the last of the series, we’re going to and other photographic accessories at a website like The good news is that getting online can be surprisingly
focus on exactly what kind of facilities to look for, www.7dayshop.com with even the best High Street inexpensive. Unlike playing games or watching DVD
depending on precisely what you want to do online. For prices and you’ll see what we mean. movies, photo editing software and access to the
more detail and information on any particular area, order Internet doesn’t demand huge specs from your PC. As a
a relevant back issue of the magazine. A full list of what Tricks of the trade rule of thumb, if your PC is good enough to download
we’ve covered in each issue of the magazine is shown Then there’s all the help, advice, tips and tricks you can photos from your camera, then it’s good enough to use
opposite, in the right-hand side bar. For now though, let’s get from online forums. Rather than having to phone for internet access. And if your PC doesn’t already have a
take a look at what options are open to you and why around trying to get an answer to a particular question, built-in modem, you can buy an internal modem for as
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BonusPrint
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MSN
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MSN Photos
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IncrediMail
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IMS Web Dwarf
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Easily.co.uk
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Photobox
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WS-FTP Pro SIGN UP, SIGN IN MSN PHOTO PLUS PICTURE IT!
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7DayShop that everyone in the family can have their access to MSN Photo Plus, for sharing your copy of Microsoft Picture It! Express 7. Despite
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own log-on and customised set of features. In true shots online and creating your own communities. the ‘express’ tag, it’s a surprisingly fully featured
Google
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multimedia style, everyone can also have their own There are also some slick tools for uploading your image-editing package with plenty of useful, yet
sign-in photo. photos, plus plenty of tips and tricks on offer. easy-to-use tools to make your shots look their best.

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If you've got lots of high-res photos to send it might be better to invest in
FURTHER a CD-RW drive tha send them online. Buying recordable CDs in bulk you
INSPIRATION can get a good deal – around 20p to 25p per disc
3 BACK ISSUES
AS SEEN IN DIGITAL
CAMERA MAGAZINE…
Over the last few months Digital
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by your ISP, Easily.co.uk has a wide range of web
hosting packages to choose from
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little as £20, or an external one (easier to fit as you OU
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don’t have to delve under the covers of your PC) for
around £50.
SO
As for online running costs, most ISPs (Internet Service
Providers) offer a local rate dial-up number. This works
out at around 4p per minute during peak rates, 5p in the Online photo communities
evenings and a penny per minute at the weekends –
less if you make the internet your ‘best friend’ or at least
list it as one of your ‘family and friends’ numbers.
Alternatively, you can sign up with an ISP like
Freeserve, BTopenworld, Supanet or Virgin for unmetered
access. This typically costs around £15 per month and
lets you spend as long as you like online without paying
dial-up time. All you need to do is to keep a record of IncrediMail, which you can download and use for free, print services. To go the whole hog, there’s no substitute
how many minutes per week you’re typically online to from www.incredimail.com for having your own gallery of shots online and there are
see which works out to be the best deal for you. basically two ways of going about this. The first and Ordering prints online
Quality printing easiest way is to sign up to an online photo community,
Phone a friend Naturally, you don’t get something for nothing. Even as described in issue one of Digital Camera Magazine.
When it comes to sharing digital photos on the internet, with the speed and convenience of emailing your Here, all the web page creation is done for you, so all
the most straightforward method is to email your shots photos, there are times when it’s good to have ‘proper’ you have to do is to upload the photos you want to
to friends, family or colleagues. You’ll get an email photos on proper photo paper to pass round among share. Two of the most popular services in the UK are
address as part of the sign-up process with whichever friends or hang on the wall. Photo inkjet printers are MSN Photos, at http://photos.msn.co.uk and Photobox,
ISP you choose, so you can use that to send your photos remarkably good nowadays, especially ones with six- at www.photobox.co.uk.
to chosen recipients across the connected world, without colour ink processing. These most commonly add photo
the need to build any websites or carry out any other magenta and photo cyan to the normal four-colour Create a website
time-consuming tasks. cyan, magenta, yellow and black process, to more Better still, you could create your own website to Creating your own website
The only thing you really need to be careful of when accurately bring out the full range of colours captured showcase your photos in exactly the way you want. This
emailing photos to friends is that you keep the file sizes in your digital photos. is a lot easier than you might imagine. Web creation
down. With modern, multi-megapixel cameras, it’s software can be cheap to buy and easy to use, as we
common for single images to be a couple of MB or more Going pro highlighted in issue three of the magazine. Indeed, some
in size. This can take your recipients five to ten minutes However, for truly professional-looking results, you can’t programs, like IMS Web Dwarf are completely free to
to download and will clog up their email software, which beat professional printing. The internet can help here as download and use – you can grab your copy at
they might not thank you for. Check out last month’s well, with Fujifilm, Jessops, BonusPrint and others www.virtualmechanics.com.
issue for full details on how to optimise your photos but, providing online services for getting your photos printed Your ISP almost certainly gives you a few MB of free
in short, it’s best to reduce the physical size in pixels, online. Better still, many services offer a free trial once space for hosting your own website, which is the place
and apply as much JPEG compression as you can you sign up. This means you can get a few photos to start. If you want more space, independent of your
(without adversely affecting image quality too much) printed for free before deciding which company you ISP, we’d suggest you check out the services offered by Optimising your photos for
online use
before you email your images to others. want to go with, or whether you’re going to stick to Easily.co.uk at www.easily.co.uk. To upload all the files
If you’re looking for an email program that really printing your own photos at home, instead of ordering contained in your site to your online web space, you
enables you to make the most of multimedia online and waiting for them to turn up in the post. See can’t beat using a proper FTP (File Transfer Protocol).
opportunities, including digital photos, we’d recommend issue two for full information on the benefits of online We’d suggest WS_FTP Pro, which costs around £30 to
buy, but you can download a free trial version for 30
? EXPLAINED
days’ use at www.ipswitch.com. UPLOAD
If your PC is good enough to download We hope we’ve given you a flavour of the many and The process of transferring data,
stored in files, from your PC to a
varied services and options that you can make use of
photos from your camera, then it’s good online. All that’s left is for you to try the ones that suit ‘server’ computer connected to the
internet, from where other net
you and see just how well they work. Once you do,
enough to use for internet access you’ll never look back.
users can access this data.

TECHNIQUE COLOUR MANAGEMENT Try these useful guides for professional colour calibration of your
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FURTHER workspace. Go to WWW.adobe.com/support/techguides/
INFORMATION color/main.htm
YOUR GUIDE TIM DALY

Tim has written several books on photography including The Digital Photography Handbook, The
Digital Printing Handbook and The Desktop Photographer, and he continues to write for The
British Journal of Photography and AG. His photographs have been exhibited across Europe
Colour settings in Photoshop

Once you’ve set up your monitor properly, you should spend a little extra time deciding how Photoshop’s colour management tools will work for you
C
olour management seems like a workspace such as the Adobe RGB (1998). This rather than editing. To set up these policies make the
0 EXPERT TIP tremendously technical concept for most
keen photographers, but it’s not complex
workspace is the best for accurate colour printing and
will not cause colours to change. Photoshop can be set
same Photoshop8Color Settings command as before,
but click the Advanced Mode checkbox, found at the
TIM DALY and it’s there to help you keep your images in top- to work with Adobe RGB (1998) as its default top left of the dialog box. Next, choose Convert to
COLOUR PROFILES
class condition. workspace by making the following command Working RGB from the RGB pop-up in the Color
BUYING CUSTOM The main problem is that digital image colours rarely Photoshop8Color Settings. When the dialog appears, Management Policies section.
PROFILES look the same when an image file is swapped pick the Custom option from the Settings pop-up menu
For many professional photographers,
custom profiles based on the
between hardware devices. There are several subtle found at the top. Next, click in the RGB pop-up and Profile mismatch reminder
idiosyncrasies of a particular output variations in the universal RGB colour mode such as select Adobe RGB (1998) from the list, as shown. While still in the Color Settings dialog, you can also set
device can be made or bought direct sRGB, Adobe RGB (1998) and ColorMatch RGB. These up Photoshop to prompt you with a visual reminder
from specialist services, like the US- are sometimes referred to as a workspace, and have Colour management engines each time an image file is about to be opened or
based Cone Editions. For a price, this their own unique colour palettes which can alter The conversion process can be managed by a tiny pasted from another source image – useful when a
company will make a bespoke
significantly when viewed in a software application piece of software called the Colour Management potentially damaging conversion is about to occur. It
output profile for your workstation if
under a different workspace. Module or Engine, sometimes referred to as CMM or gives you the chance to decide what to do before the
you print out and return their preset
colour chart. Once analysed, the chart To counteract this, there are tools installed inside CME. Both ColorSync and the Adobe (ACE) are image is opened. In the Color Management Policies
will be form the basis of a personal professional hardware and software to manage the management tools and both come with Photoshop, section, tick all options as shown.
profile which will adjust your colour transition. For example, you can choose to colour with the latter being the best option to use. When
images to fit a target paper and manage your monitor, input devices and output opening images that have been captured in another Tagging your documents
printer combination. devices so that consistent colours are maintained. workspace, you can configure your CME to deal with Once opened, worked on and ready for saving, the
the problem in a number of different ways called final part of the colour management workflow can be
Setting up the colour workspace policies. Most common is to convert images from a made. You can choose to save your images with your
Some workspaces have a smaller colour palette than smaller space into your current but larger workspace. workspace colour profile by doing a File8Save As
others, such as the sRGB space, so the best option is to The second option is to preserve the integrity of the command. At the bottom of the dialog box, tick the
use the largest and most universally recognised image’s workspace, useful if you are only viewing Embed Color profile option, as shown.
* WEB LINKS
Many hardware and software
manufacturers offer online advice
on how to cope with colour
management problems as follows:
SOLUTIONS You can deal with image files from different hardware/software formats by configuring your
machine to anticipate them, or by managing them through special ‘policies’
CONE STUDIO
www.inkjetmall.com
Delve into the useful tips on colour
management, especially useful for
older versions of Photoshop.
COLORSYNC
http://www.apple.com/colorsync/
Read about theory behind the
Colorsync colour management tools.
EPSON
http://www.photoexpert.epson.co
.uk/UK/EXPERTISE/how_to_icc_pa
ge1.htm
SET UP THE COLOUR WORKSPACE COLOUR MANAGEMENT ENGINES PROFILE MISMATCH REMINDER
Learn how to use printer colour 01 You can set a default workspace on your
02 These enable you to set up ‘policies’ which
03 This pre-empts any nasty surprises by warning
profiles with your Epson printer
workstation that all files will recognise. deal with foreign file formats on arrival. you when your colours will be affected.

SECTION #05 RETAILERS
5 steps to safe shopping
To prevent or handle the unlikely event of receiving faulty or
damaged goods, why not follow our checklist below – you’ll
reduce whatever slight chance there is of problems:
1 CHOOSE YOUR SITE OR RETAILER

Overleaf, you’ll find pages of camera retailers who offer
competing prices and levels of service. Give them a look:
2 USE A CREDIT CARD

If you are buying goods worth more than £100 in total, use a
credit card. This is because in the event of any problems, you are
entitled to claim against the credit card company as well as the
seller (you won’t get your money back twice but the company is
there to claim against if the seller has gone bust.) You might also
get extra insurance, so check with your credit firm.
3 NEVER PAY IN CASH

If you can’t pay by credit card, use a cheque or postal order
instead. Don’t send cash through the mail, even by registered
post. Apart from the risk of theft, you can’t stop payment if you
need to, and it’s impossible to prove how much you sent.
4 KEEP A RECORD
Keep records if you’re paying by credit card over the phone. Print
off web pages after you have entered your details on them. Keep
notes of exact times and the name of the person who took your
order, if you’re paying by phone. Always keep your receipts.
5 DON’T USE A DEBIT CARD

Many debit cards don’t have the protection or insurance options
afforded to credit cards, so avoid using one.
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C-15M0120 PHOTO ........£15.90 T018401 CLR .........£13.99 6984 A4 Photo Quality Paper 160g (25)........£6.90
BC-60 BLK.....................£17.99 T017401 BLK .........£16.90
BC-61 CLR ....................£17.90 6832 A4 Premium Photo Glossy 230g (20)...£9.50
T009401 PHOTO ...£13.90
BC-62 PHOTO ...............£29.99 T008401 PHOTO ...£10.70 6951 A4 Premium Photo Matte 230g (20).....£9.50
INKJET PAPERS BCI-10B
BCI-11B
BLK x3 .................£9.50
BLK x3 .................£6.99
T007401 BLK .........£12.50
T005011 CLR .........£17.90
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compatible inkjet papers, provides high quality BCI-21B BLK.......................£4.99 20193 PHOTO ...£10.99 1853 A4 Photo Matte 2 sided 135g (100)...£10.50
output and ultimate value for the enthusiast. BCI-21C CLR ......................£9.90 20191 CLR .........£14.90 6050 A4 Iron-on Transfers (10)......................£9.99
BCI-24B BLK.......................£5.90 20189 BLK .........£13.99 6042 Greeting Cards + Env. (20)................... £5.49
20187 BLK .........£12.90 3832 A4 Transparency Film (20)..................£12.00
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20110 PHOTO ...£10.90
20093 BLK .........£12.50 H.P. COMPATIBLE
BJI-201B BLK.......................£5.80 20089 CLR .........£14.90 QUALITY RECONDITIONED HP
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BJI-201 C/M/Y .........each £5.50 41620 A4 Photo Glossy Paper x50 .....................£12.00
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41624 A4 Premium Photo Glossy Paper x50........£17.50 C-51625A CLR......................£12.99
range of bright white 41328 A3+ Premium Semi-Gloss x20.................£33.95 C-51626A BLK........................£9.99
Glossy, Satin & Matte 41316 A3+ Premium Photo Paper 255g x20......£29.50 C-51629A BLK......................£11.90
inkjet papers for top PP101A4 A4 Photo Paper Plus Glossy (20)........£TBA 41143 A3+ Photo Paper 190g x20 ......................£17.99 C-51633M BLK........................£9.99
41264 A3+ Photo Matte 167g x50.......................£27.99 C-51645A BLK......................£11.50
Quality Photo printing and PP101 6x4 Photo Paper Plus Glossy (20) ......£3.90 41334 A3 Premium Semi Gloss x20 ...................£27.95 C-51649A CLR......................£14.99
the ultimate value. MP101 A4 Photo Matte Paper (50)................£6.90 41315 A3 Premium Photo Paper 255g x20 ........£25.00 C-6614D BLK......................£11.90
PR-101 A4 Glossy Photo Paper (15)...............£8.90 41261 A3 Photo Matte 167g x50.........................£17.99 C-6615D BLK......................£11.90
41142 A3 Photo Paper 190g x20.........................£17.50
M270G A4 Pro Photo Glossy 270g (40).......£12.99 GP-301 A4 Glossy Photo Paper 165g (20).....£6.90 41125 A3 Photo Paper 120g x20.........................£14.90 C-6578A CLR......................£15.99
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M270S A4 Pro Photo Satin 270g (40)..........£12.99 HR101 A4 Photo Matte Paper 90g (200).....£16.50 41330 Premium Semi Gloss Photo Roll .............£10.90
M220GM A4 Pro Photo Glossy/Matte 220g (50)..£9.99 HR101 A4 Photo Matte Paper 90g (50).........£4.99 41071
41332
A4 Photo Glossy Film x15 ........................£17.90
A4 Premium Semi Gloss 251g x20 ............£9.50
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TR201 A4 T-Shirt Transfers (10)....................£8.50 41287 A4 Premium Photo Paper 255g x20 ..........£8.99
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M200G A4 Pro Photo Glossy 200g (50).........£9.99 16MB .........................£9.99
41140 A4 Photo Paper 190g x20...........................£6.90 32MB .......................£11.50
M200S A4 Pro Photo Satin 200g (50)............£9.99 CANON COMPATIBLE 41126 A4 Photo Glossy 120g x20 .........................£5.99 64MB .......................£16.90
M150G A4 Pro Photo Glossy 150g (50).........£8.99 41560 A4 ColourLife Photo Paper 245g x20......£11.50 128MB .......................£39.00
EACH DISCOUNT 41342 A4 Matte Archival Paper 192g x50 ............£9.50 256MB .......................£69.99
M220M A4 Pro Photo Matte 220g (100)........£8.90 41256 A4 Photo Matte 160g x50...........................£7.90 512MB .....................£149.00
C-BC01 BLK ........................£9.95........2 PK £17.50 41106 A4 Photo Matte Adhesive x10 ...................£7.90
M180MM A4 Pro Photo Matte/Matte 180g (150)£9.90 41061 A4 Photo Matte Paper 90g x100................£7.90 SMARTMEDIA CARDS
C-BC02 BLK ........................£9.90........2 PK £17.80 16MB 3.3V .................£6.90
M130MM A4 Pro Photo Matte/Matte 130g (200).£9.90 41154 A4 Iron-on Transfers x10............................£8.90
C-BCI-5B BLK ........................£3.99 41176 Photo Stickers 5x4 .....................................£3.99 32MB 3.3V .................£8.90
C-BCI-5 C/M/Y ....................£3.99 41122 10"x8" Photo Card x30 ...............................£9.99 64MB 3.3V ...............£15.90
Photo Glossy Papers 41121 8"x5" Photo Card x30 .................................£4.90 128MB 3.3V ...............£37.90
C-BCI-10B BLK (x3).................£4.99 .......2 PK £8.99
41148 8"x5" Cards + Envelopes x10 ....................£5.90 SECURE DATA CARDS
CP274 A4 ICI Photo Glossy 2 sided 270g (20).......£13.99 C-BCI-11B BLK (x3).................£5.99........2 PK £11.00 41134 6"x4" Photo Paper 190g x20 .........................£4.99 32MB........................£16.90
CPR0A3 A3 ICI Photo Glossy Paper 260g (20).........£17.75 C-BCI-11C CLR (x3).................£7.50........2 PK £13.98 41144 A6 Photo Stickers (5x16)............................£3.90 64MB........................£35.00
41054 A6 Photo Card x50......................................£5.99 128MB......................£57.00
CPR050 A4 ICI Photo Glossy Paper 260g (50).........£16.99 C-BCI-21B BLK ........................£2.75 .......3 PK £7.50 41147 A6 Cards + Envelopes x20 .........................£5.90 MULTIMEDIA CARDS
CPR020 A4 ICI Photo Glossy Paper 260g (20)...........£8.50 C-BCI-21C CLR........................£3.99........3 PK £11.00 See website for full range of Papers 16MB ......................£11.90
CPRO64 6x4” ICI Photo Glossy Paper 260g (20)........£5.50 C-BCI-61C CLR........................£7.99........2 PK £15.00 32MB .......................£13.90
CS26A3 A3 ICI Photo Satin Paper 260g (20)............£17.75 C-BCI 62 PHOTO ..................£8.99........2 PK £17.00 EPSON COMPATIBLE 64MB .......................£29.90
CS2650 A4 ICI Photo Satin Paper 260g (50)............£16.99 C-BJI201B BLK ........................£1.99 .......3 PK £5.50 SAVE UP TO 70% ON EPSON INK NEW XD PICTURE CARDS
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CS2620 A4 ICI Photo Satin Paper 260g (20).............£8.50 C-BJI201M Mag.........................£2.50 64MB........................£17.90
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CP22-3P A3+ Photo Glossy/Photo Matte 220g (20)..£17.99 C-BJI201C Cyn.........................£2.50 are our Best Performing Brand. 128MB......................£44.90
CP22-A3 A3 Photo Glossy/Photo Matte 220g (20)...£15.99 C-BJI201Y Ylw .........................£2.50 EACH DISCOUNT Memory Stick for all SONY equipment
CARDS A5 Glossy Greeting Cards 220g (20)............£7.99 NEW C-T032440 YELLOW..............£5.50......3 PK £14.85 32MB Memory Stick........................£16.90
NEW C-T032340 MAGENTA ...........£5.50......3 PK £14.85 64MB Memory Stick........................£32.00
CP22-A5 A5 Photo Glossy/Photo Matte 220g (20).....£4.75 NEW C-T032240 CYAN ...................£5.50......3 PK £14.85
CP1750 A4 ICI Photo Glossy Paper 170g (50)..........£9.99
STORAGE MEDIA NEW C-T032140 BLK......................£6.50......3 PK £17.97
128MB Memory Stick......................£52.00
CP1720 A4 ICI Photo Glossy Paper 170g (20)..........£4.99 MEMOREX CDR

C-T029401 CLR......................£6.50......3 PK £17.97
C-T028401 BLK......................£6.50......3 PK £17.97
DIGITAL ACCESSORIES
CS50 A4 ICI Photo Satin Paper 170g (50).............£9.99 80/700MB 48 Speed.each 65p/10 PK £5.99 C-T027401 PHOTO ................£6.50......3 PK £17.97 Compact flash & Smart Media
80/700MB.............50 Pack Spindle £16.50 C-T026401 BLK......................£6.50......3 PK £17.97 accessories...
CS20 A4 ICI Photo Satin Paper 170g (20).............£5.99 C-T020401 CLR......................£3.99......3 PK £11.50 6-in-1 Reader/Writer...............................................£17.99
CDR Audio 80min..99p each /10 Pk £9.45 C-T019401 BLK......................£2.50......3 PK £6.99 Dual Compact/Smart Reader/Writer.................... £15.90
Photo Matte Papers CDRW 700/74....99p each /10 Pack £8.99 C-T018401 CLR......................£6.50......3 PK £17.97 Smart Media PCMCIA Adaptor............................. £16.90
CA240 A4 Artist Watercolour Paper 240g (10)........£6.99 Hewlett Packard CDR C-T017401 BLK......................£6.50......3 PK £17.97
Compact Flash PCMCIA Adaptor..........................£5.90
80min/650MB.......79p each /10 Pack £7.50 C-T014401 CLR......................£3.99......3 PK £11.50
CM234 A4 ICI Photo Matte 230g (50)............................£9.99 C-T013401 BLK......................£2.50......3 PK £6.99 Great Prices from MX2 –
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CM17100 A4 ICI Photo Matte 2 sided 170g (100)..........£12.99 C-T007401 BLK......................£6.50......3 PK £17.97 DVD’S, MUSIC CD’S, GAMES &
C-T005011 CLR......................£3.99......3 PK £11.50
CANA3 A3 Canvas Photo Paper 140g (20).............£13.50 IOMEGA C-T003011 BLK......................£2.50......3 PK £6.99 BOOKS...
CANA4 A4 Canvas Photo Paper 140g (20)...............£5.99 ZIP 100MB PC or MAC............each £6.99 C-T001011 PHOTO ................£3.99......3 PK £11.50
ZIP 250MB PC or MAC............each £9.75 C-20193 PHOTO ................£3.99......3 PK £11.50
CM120 A4 ICI Photo Matte 120g (100)..........................£7.99 C-20191 CLR......................£3.99......3 PK £11.50
Maxell LS-120 120MB Super Disc ...£6.75 C-20189 BLK......................£2.50......3 PK £6.99
Specialist Products C-20187 BLK......................£2.50......3 PK £6.99
IMATION 3.5” DISKS
CMETAL A4 Silver Metallic Film (10)...........................£6.99 C-20138 CLR......................£3.99......3 PK £11.50
Black IBM 1.44Mb 10 Pack.................£2.99 C-20110 PHOTO ................£3.99......3 PK £11.50
CHOLO A4 Silver Holographic Film...........................£7.95 Neon IBM 1.44Mb 10 Pack.................£3.50 C-20093 BLK......................£2.50......3 PK £6.99
CTFR A4 Transfers for T - Shirts etc. (10).............£7.99 C-20089 CLR......................£3.99......3 PK £11.50
MEMOREX DVD STORAGE
CLING A4 Cling Film 720 Dpi (10)............................ £7.50 DVD-R 4.7Gb...........................................£5.90 Vectorjet Refill Kits & Inks
CMAG A4 Magnetic Photo Sheets (5)..................... £7.90 DVD-RW 4.7Gb....................................... £9.49
DVD+RW 4.7Gb...................................... £9.99 Refill your empty cartridges
CLEAR A4 Transparencies for Projectors (20)........ £7.50
CLAM A4+ DIY Laminate for Menus etc. (10)........£6.99 & SAVE £££s
TDK 5.2Gb DVD RAM ......................£12.99
CBUS DIY Laminate for Business Cards (50)........£5.99 Black Refill Kit (50ml)....£4.90 (100ml)..£6.99
CDKIT CD & Zip Kit (50) Free CD Software..........£11.99 © Colour Refill Kit (75ml)....£7.90 (150ml)..£9.99
CDM2 Photo Matt CD Labels 2 per A4 (2x10)........£5.99 DIGITAL VIDEO FOOD Black & Clr Refill Kit (125ml)......................£9.95
CD2 Photo Glossy CD Labels 2 per A4 (2x10)....£6.50 SONY DVM 60min Premium (no chip)......£4.90 Photo Refill Kit (150ml)...............................£9.99
SONY DVM 60min IC Excellence(with chip) £7.90 Black Ink (250ml)...£5.90 (500ml)£16.90
CD3 Photo Glossy CD Labels 3 per A4 (3x10)....£6.50
Panasonic AY-DVM 60min EK (no chip)...£4.90 C/M/Y Inks Each(250ml)..£6.90 (500ml).£16.99
CBC Glossy Business Cards 220g (10x10).......... £5.75 FUJI Hi8 P5-90 Heavy Metal Particle....... £4.99 Photo Inks C/M/Y(250ml).£9.90 (500ml)£17.90 CHART MUSIC CD’S STARTING FROM £7.99.
CAD20 Address Labels (adh) 10 per A4 (10x10)......£5.99 FUJI 8mm P5-60 Metal Particle (2 PK).....£4.20 Cleaning Fluid (125ml).£3.99 (250ml)..£4.90 LATEST DVD RELEASES FROM £14.50
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Minolta Dimage 5 ........................ £398
Minolta Dimage 7 ........................ £688
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Minolta Dimage X ........................ £288
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0.43x Fisheye...................................£39.99
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128MB..............................................£37.99 BC1-6 All each ................................£7.99
£11.99 D-Res 25AW....................£15.99 A4 (100) 89g....................................SO41059 £5.99
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32MB................................................£11.99
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Images directly onto your TV £69.99
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128MB ............................................£38.99
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G300 ......................................£19. 99
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16MB ..............................................£19. 80 G400 ......................................£34. 99 5692 (S) ................................£12.99 A3 (20) 215g Glossy......SO41350 £24.99 GP-301NA3 A3 Gloss 160g ..........£13.99
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128MB ............................................£69.80
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Universal AC supply ..................£29.99
MEMORY A3+ (50) 195g Archival SO41340 £33.99 A6 Paper & Ribbon (60) ..................£29.99
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32MB................................................£29.99
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20GIG £199.99 20 GIG £249.99
Lexar CF USB • 5 Year Warranty HL-E1 Battery (Nikon) ............£29.99 Microtech Media Vault A3+ (20) Prem 255g ....SO41316 £32.99 A5+ Paper (25) (P400)................................£34.99
32MB 8 x speed..............................£24.99
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Why resize all of your images by hand when you can use a program to do it for you? Try out Multiple Image Resizer for size...
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TWEAK IMAGES This handy little program enables you trim and rotate your images to
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esizing any number of images can be a
lengthy and time consuming process.
You might, for example, be creating a
website to show off your latest batch of
photographs and find yourself having to manually
create thumbnail after thumbnail. But it need not
be like this. Using Multiple Image Resizer .NET, you
can automate the entire process, leaving you with
more time to concentrate on other things.
As the name would suggest, this program ADD YOUR IMAGES RESIZE THEM ROTATE THEM
enables you to resize a number of images in one 01 Launch the program and go to the Select 02 Use the next tab to indicate which 03 The Rotate tab can be used to determine
fell swoop. But it doesn’t stop there – you can also tab. Click Add Folder of Images. Select processing options you would like to use if images should be rotated or flipped at
choose how images should be resized (as a fixed your folder to add an entire folder or select images on your images. Move to the Resizing tab to scale all. As you change options, you will need to refresh
size or as a percentage of the original image), independently by clicking Add Individual Images. down your images to the ratio you want. the preview by clicking on the Refresh link.
whether images should be flipped or rotated,
and what sort of border should be used to
frame each picture.
Once all of these options have been set, you
can select some text to overlay onto your images
– perfect if you would like to add copyright
information to prevent your work being used by
anyone else. When all of this has been done, all
that is left to do is decide how your resized
images should be named, where they should
be stored and which image format they should
be saved in.
While this program is perfect for creating
website thumbnails, it can be used for any
purpose, even if all you ADD BORDERS ADD TEXT SAVE YOUR IMAGES
want to do is convert a
04 If you would like to add a border to your
05 You can also add text to your images –
06 Finally, on the Save tab, you must select
folder full of images into a resized images, use the next tab to such as copyright information. Click on the file format to save images in and the
different file format. It’s a select your options. You can change the type of the Text Options tab, enter your text and choose the naming convention to be used. You can then move
useful tool whatever your border to use as well as its colour and thickness. font and positioning your would like to use. to the final tab and hit Go.
requirements may be.
Upgrade
The company behind Multiple Image Resizer .NET, Acumen Business Another free tool is Net Tester, which may be used by network
Systems Ltd, produces a whole range of other software – some of which is administrators or those with home networks to check all available
available free of charge! machines on the network at any one time. .Net tester then reports their
Working on a similar idea to Multiple Image Resizer, Multiple Unzipper IP addresses back to you.
enables you to work with several zipped archives at once so you can Take a look at the company’s website (www.acumensystems.com) and
quickly and easily uncompress a number of files in one action. you can find out more details on all these useful products.
Picture Window 2.5
Picture Window is a professional image-editing and photo-enhancement tool that offers you an unparalleled level of control over your work
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quipped with your camera and Picture
Window 2.5 from this month’s cover
disc, you can turn your computer into
your own personal digital darkroom. The program
places at your disposal a wide range of power
tools covering every aspect of image editing.
Whatever alterations you make to your images,
Picture Window 2.5 makes it easy to revert to an
earlier version of your work should you make a
mistake. As well as the usual undo feature, every
time you make a change, apply a filter or special BROWSE YOUR IMAGES TWAIN SUPPORT SLIDESHOWS
effect, a new window will open containing the
01 Picture Window includes a useful Browse
02 The program also features TWAIN
03 Digital slideshows are great way to send
newly transformed version of your file. This means option which can be used to preview the support so you can acquire images from out a whole collection of images to
that it is easy to take an original image and try entire contents of a folder of images. You can then other sources, such as a scanner. You can then use people. Simply click File8Slideshow and double click
out a number of ideas and view them all on open individual images or print out miniature Picture Windows tools to adjust the image as on the empty box to start adding pictures to the
screen simultaneously for easy comparison. reference sheets. necessary, using the usual methods. slideshow selection.
As well as special effects and filters, and the
usual range of graphic tools, Picture Window also
offers a collection of options brought together in
the Miscellaneous Tools window. From here you
have access to a number of useful features such
as lighten, darken, smudge, red eye removal,
sharpen and blur. The fact that all of these tools
and their various options are available from a
single window greatly increases common image
enhancement tasks.
The Monitor Calibration tool can be used to
ensure that what you see on screen precisely
matches the output of your printer, so you will not
waste time on an editing session only to have to
redo it when your printout is not up to standard. CALIBRATE YOUR MONITOR PAINT AND CLONE TOOLS MISCELLANEOUS TOOLS
With support for layers, masks, and boasting
04 Before you start image editing, you
05 The top tool bar can be used to access
06 The Miscellaneous Tool window should
extremely customisable options, Picture Window is should calibrate your monitor. Turn the some of the basic image tools such as be your first port of call for the common
ideal for those looking for professional results contrast right up and click File8Calibrate. Adjust the paint brush and the clone tool. Cick on a toolbar image editing tools. Select your tool from the drop
without the hand-holding of wizard interfaces. settings for the best picture output. button for the appropriate options box. down list and set the option below.
Upgrade
Picture Window Pro 3.1 only areas with similar colour, enabling you to make accurate masks more
If you liked the power of Picture Window 2.5, take a look at some of the easily. Other improvements and additions include rotation during cropping,
new features included in version 3.1. All operations now include support for cropping to irregular shapes, a new Fan special effects transformation,
48-bit colour, and there is better colour management available, with full support for shadowed text, greater ranges in the blur and sharpen dialog,
support for ICM profiles. Mask-making has been improved with a number of cropping in the print dialog and more. Find out more by visiting the Digital
new features, including a new smart brush mode that selectively masks Light & Color website at www.dl-c.com
TEXT OPTIONS MASK OPTIONS COMPOSITE TRANSFORMATION
07 Using the Text option (Transformation
08 Masks can be used to protect certain
09 You can use the Composite
Text), you can precisely control the areas of an image while you work on Transformation tool to merge two
appearance and positioning of text over your others. Click the M button on the toolbar to display images together or to add a special effect to an
pictures. The preview option enables you to try out the Masks options. To make masked areas less existing image. The gradient blend, for example,
ideas before committing them by clicking OK. obvious, remember to feather the edges. fades in an image from the centre of the screen.
MULTIPLE CHOICE COLOUR BALANCE SAVE FORMATS

10 Each time you apply a special effect or
11 Picture Window’s comprehensive Color
12 When you’re happy with the changes
transformation to an image, the original Balance Transformation enables you to you’ve made to your picture you can
file will be retained. This enables you to try out a precisely configure the colour levels of pictures, save it in any of 11 popular image formats,
few ideas and compare them before deciding. along with saturations and other settings. depending on how you want to use your images.
Color Mechanic more control over your images than other tools which simply apply a
Another product that may be of interest is Color Mechanic. This is a colour uniform filter to the entire image.
correction plug-in tool that works with Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Extremely impressive results can be achieved using Color Mechanic by
Elements as well as other plug-in-compatible, image editing programs. The simply adjusting the slider settings. In just a few simple steps you can
key feature of this particular colour correction tool is that it enables you to perfect your images. Again, you can find out more by visiting the Digital
adjust individual colours without any others being affected. This gives you Light & Color website at www.dl-c.com
FotoPrinter 3.0
Complete package for editing and improving your photos, or printing them out with fine control
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otoPrinter is a versatile photo editing
and presentation program that makes it
easy to import images from your
camera and print them out for maximum impact.
Installing the software is very straightforward, with IMPORT THE IMAGES TOOLS OF THE TRADE ENHANCE YOUR IMAGES
the minimum system requirement being modest:
01 Photos can be obtained directly from 02 Along the top of the main screen is a 03 Moving along, you find tools for changing
Pentium PC, 32MB of RAM and 500MB of hard a TWAIN-enabled digital camera or collection of 15 tools for editing and to true colour, adjusting image saturation
drive space. scanner, or from a location on your PC by clicking adjusting your shots. The first couple enable you to and tweaking brightness and sharpness. The tools
FotoPrinter works with any version of Windows ‘disk.’ Key functions within the program can also reduce the number of colours in an image for can handle basic quick fixes only. Look for a
from Windows 95 onwards. Although the software be accessed by right mouse clicking. turning it to a grayscale colour palette. dedicated package for more intensive corrections.
is free, you do need to obtain a user ID and
registration key, which you can do by going to the
maker’s website. Oddly, the program asks for the
registration details when you close it, but online
registration only takes a matter of minutes.
Another quirk is the interface: unlike most photo
editng programs, there are no pull-down menus,
and the graphical, colourful appearance is much
more reminiscent of Kai’s PowerTools or Power
Goo. Although this software is not time-limited,
you need to pay a small upgrade fee (just under
£5) to use the advanced photo-editing effects and
add printable frames to your shots. One big MORE IMAGE TWEAKS FREE IMAGES ADD SOME TEXT
advantage of FotoPrinter is its ability to set your The strange-looking squiggle (ninth Along the bottom of the main screen Text can also be added to photos for print
printer margins. Every printer has non-printable 04 along, top bar) lets you adjust gamma 05 you’ll notice a modest selection of 06 out or inclusion on your website. Before
areas (top/bottom/left/right). Consequently, blank settings, while the next one along alters royalty free photos. Click the Underlay text can be added, you need to select
margins may occur when printing on preprinted the rotation. Next to that are tools for mirroring an tool and you can merge two images for an easy, drag and drop mode, then enter the details in the
paper. To fix this in FotoPrinter, select the ‘Adjust image and moving it around the printable area. yet dramatic, effect. dialog box which pops up.
Printer’ option in the Print menu. The “Test” option
is located here. Clicking on this option generates a
test printout. On this printout, measure the actual
distance between the vertical line and the left
margin of your page (x) and the distance between
the horizontal line and the top page margin (y).
Enter these values in the corresponding fields
(X and Y). Your printer will now be adjusted.
PICTURE ALBUM PRINTER CALIBRATION GETTING MORE FEATURES

07 Click the album function on the main 08 Printer adjustment is carried out via 09 To access the more sophisticated photo
screen to view your photos as ‘Settings.’ You can calibrate your printer effects and picture frames, you need to
thumbnails in a photo album. Handy if you have a so it can print within the margins of pre-printed re-register for an update. When you see this screen,
lot of images accumulating on your PC and need to documents, as explained in the introduction to this click the Internet button and you’re taken to a web
identify a shot quickly. software or within the included help files. page where you can pay the update fee.
Also on the coverdiscs
With this lot installed on your workstation, managing and editing your digital photos should be a breeze
PhotoRecovery for digital media 3.0 DVD Picture Show 1.0 Arcsoft Photobase 3.0
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his application can undelete deleted images or recover ven though you’ve turned to digital, the slideshow is not a his is a photo and media management application for the
files from formatted media cards – as long as you haven’t lost art. DVD Picture Show enables you to build digital non-professional. To justify the $49 price tag there are
placed fresh data on the card. Simply direct it to the media slideshows that you can master to either CD or DVD. You basic editing and adjustment tools, slideshow functions
card and it’ll scan the device displaying the list of files it has can add menus, music and special effects. If you burn to DVD the and a Web album builder, which takes a folder of images and
recovered. Then, just copy them to your hard drive for safekeeping. disc should be compatible with most standard DVD players. automatically creates a thumbnail image gallery.
Dup Detector 3.0 Lightbox 2.0 Digital ROC Plug-in
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Y T T
our hard drive’s cluttered enough without keeping his file/image browsing add-on supports many other his Photoshop plug-in makes image correction simple by
duplicate files. Dup Detector can identify and delete applications. Lightbox offers a visual thumbnail listing of doing the adjustments automatically. It focuses on colour
duplicate files regardless of the file name (it compares images (and other media files) so it’s easy to find the fading (scanned photographs) and light castings. The
pixel data instead). Matching images are displayed with image image you’re after. Partial integration means the image can be example images on the developers website show some remarkable
previews plus the option to delete them. This application is free. imported into your application. This package costs just under $30. transformations and our tests also produced excellent results.

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