10 Questions to Ask When Taking a Digital Photo

Getting in the habit of asking some simple questions can help take your images to the next level. Here's 10 questions to get in the habit of asking while framing your shots. Also included are links for further reading on the topics.

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9 Tips For Taking Great Digital Photos
Specific and detailed tips for various photo situations.


Taking a Photo Per Day to Spur Creativity
I have long incorporated the "Photo of the Day" exercise into my Photography Lab classes. They are a great way to make sure you are taking a least one photograph a day. They force you to begin to think creatively as you have to find more and more ways to photograph the same thing everyday.


The Grey Card ('The Gray Card' to some)
When taking digital photographs, a grey card can be an essential accessory in creating white balance and getting precise representation of colour. A digital camera will record the colour of light very accurately. The eye and brain are extremely adaptable to variations; digital is not, it records what is there. Something might look white to us, but if it has a colour cast, that will show on the digital file.


Everything About Histograms - A Histograms Primer
Histograms are a vital tool that most digital photographers tend to use when taking pictures. This is a short and easy essay on understanding and using histograms in the daily life of the digital photographer.


Tips For Taking Great Digital Photos
Tips for taking great digital photos.


Photo manipulations - digital art training
Hello. We have a very interesting subject for today. I am looking forward to make more Photo manipulations, because this is also a part of digital art training. In this tutorial we'll take a photo and retouch it using a tablet and Photoshop, so let's do it.


Digital Star Effect
Turn a regular photo into a high-tech digital artwork.


When is the Best Time to Buy a Digital Camera?
Three questions to ask to help work out when to buy your next digital camera.


Digital Photo Collage
Use your own images to create a digital photo collage.


Digital Makeover
Welcome in digital makeover tutorial. In 2 words we are going to create 1 shape using pen tool and try to do something with it on a photo found in internet.


Five Common Digital Photography Mistakes and How to Fix Them
Learn how to avoid common photo pitfalls like red-eye and blur, and take better pictures with your digital camera.


Digital Photo Enhancement
When you visit new places, you take a lot of pictures to show them to your friends and to keep in your memory the wonderful sights you visited. However, your digital camera may fail to render them accurately. You can apply AKVIS Enhancer to obtain a better result.


Tips for Shooting Great Digital Photos
Learn some of the basic necessities that make a photo a good photo written by Gary Hendricks.


Warrior Girl: Digital Compositing
Turing an ordinary digital photo into something vibrant and fanciful may be easier than you think. This tutorial will walk you through creating this warrior girl scene.


How To Make Digital Photos Look Like Lomo Photography
Here is my step by step on how I take a digital photo and make it Lomoified. I do have one suggestion though, create an action script once get this down, it will save you a ton of time.


Mixed Medium Digital Images
Convert your standard digital images into a photo where the main subject stands apart from the background. Have your subject in color, while the rest stays in the black and white.


Make your portrait look like a digital painting
In this tutorial you'll learn how to give a portrait photo a painted look, so it resembles a digital painting.


Step By Step: Taking Beautiful High Key Photos of Flowers
Flowers are a beautiful and popular subject, but taking photos of them outdoors is often a frustrating process. You have to wait until the flowers are in bloom before you can even start, and then you are at the mercy of the light and weather. But theres an easy way to take photos of flowers at any time of the year, no matter where you live take them indoors, where you can control the light and the background. Thats how I took this high key photo of a lily, and in this tutorial I'm going to show you how I did it.


Border in any shape
This tutorial is to help you learn how to create a custom border for any digital photo using masks. I also use this technique sometimes when I want to crop a lot of the photo away on certain sides.


Realistic photo print
By using just a few simple effects you can turn your digital images into realistic photo prints.


Bugatti Veyron Photo Effects
This tutorial will be a tough one. We will add digital colors into the photo of Bugatti.


Taking Beautiful High Key Photos of Flowers
Flowers are a beautiful and popular subject, but taking photos of them outdoors is often a frustrating process. You have to wait until the flowers are in bloom before you can even start, and then you are at the mercy of the light and weather. But there's an easy way to take photos of flowers at any time of the year, no matter where you live take them indoors, where you can control the light and the background. That's how I took this high key photo of a lily, and in this tutorial I'm going to show you how I did it.


Preparing for Portrait Photo Shoots
The golden rule when taking pictures of people is to always think about what you are doing before you press the shutter release. What do you hope to achieve?


Photography Tips to Take Better Pictures
A lot of us really don't have the expertise we would like to for taking photos which are worth exhibiting in picture frames on our office desktops. Newer generation digital cameras really have come a long way, however, making it quite possible for just about everyone to capture excellent pictures.


Pixel Stretch
Stretching a single line of pixels is an easy way to create special digital effects in graphic design. By taking this technique a step further, we can create wonderful, vibrant 3D effects right in Photoshop!


Create a Realistic and Fancy Digital Photo Frame
How to use pen tool, layer styles and filter in photoshop, are the major things you will learn by reading this tutorial. In this tutorial we are going to create a digital frame.


Convert a Color Photo to Black and White
Before the digital revolution of photography photos shot with black and white film had a certain richness and artistic feel to them. Now you can get the same results from your color digital images using Photoshop Elements.


Photo Gallery Website Layout
n this tutorial you will learn how to create a photo gallery website in Photoshop. If you have any questions about this tutorial be sure to ask in the comments. Also, remember with all the tutorials, the psd is available for download.


Photo to Painting
Learn how to create a painting from a photograph. In just a few simple steps you can turn a stock photo into a digital painting.


Create gorgeous photomontages
Taking a picture of a pretty girl and giving it the wow factor with some clever details is one of the most popular uses for Photoshop. This tutorial shows how to execute the style with real flair, applying digital painting techniques, compositing and layer masks to stunning effect.