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Every month or two I like to create a list of helpful tutorials and resources from around the photographic web.

This time I think you’ll agree that there’s been some wonderful tutorials written. I’ve included 17 from other sites – 5 from our archives (this time last year) and 3 great photoshop video tutorials.

17 Hot Photography Links From Around the Web

  1. Make Your own BikeCAM – a fun DIY with a video
  2. 5 Ways to Hold Your Viewer’s Attention – 5 simple composition techniques
  3. Transforming a Daylight Image into a Wild Night – Photoshop tutorial
  4. Nine Reasons to Manually Focus When Taking Pictures – sometimes manual focusing is your best option
  5. The Importance of focus and quick tips on how to get it right – another focusing related tutorial
  6. My Photography Workflow – Photographer Thomas Hawk talks us through his workflow
  7. The 15 Second DIY Adjustable Snoot! – a fast DIY
  8. The Nuts and Bolts of Off-Camera Flash – first part of a four part series on off camera flash (part 2 here).
  9. 8 Photography Myths Debunked – just what the title says :-)
  10. Getting Rid of Dust Spots – Photoshopping tips
  11. Flicker Flash – How to capture movement with a series of strobe flashes
  12. Introduction to Digital Photography – 10 Ways to Improve your skills
  13. On Assignment: Night Chopper Pt 2 – 2nd in a series of shots taking you on a shoot of a chopper at night
  14. Your Guide to Buying Old Film Cameras – Feeling Retro? This one’s for you!
  15. Seeing the Possibilities – a great post on how to see possibilities in different locations
  16. Understanding Camera Exposure Modes – talking you through spot, evaluative and center-weighted metering.
  17. Curves color enhancement tutorial – a video screencast of GIMP in action

5 Tutorials from our Archives that You Might have Missed!

As usual in these posts I thought I’d throw in a handful of articles from our own archives – from July 2007 – for those of you who are new to Digital Photography School and might have missed some of what we’ve already covered:

  1. 18 Exceptionally Useful Photoshop Shortcuts – the most popular post from July last year
  2. 7 Strategies for Avoiding Flash Blow Out – we’ve all suffered from it – but how do you overcome flash blowout?
  3. 4 Rues of Composition for Landscape Photography – some basic ideas on composition
  4. Using Flash in Action Photography – tips and some cool photos
  5. How to Photograph Pets – always a popular photographic subject – Pets!

3 Hot Photoshop Video Tutorials

Lastly on this ‘Around the Web’ round up let me share 3 fun photoshop tutorials with you.

1. De-Aging In Photoshop

Curves: Learn How to Use the Basics of Curves

3. Vanish Objects with Clone Tool

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