Share Your Fireworks Photos

So, you’ve completed your Fireworks 101 homework, taken some great shots, and want to share them with the world? Here are a couple of options:

• Lifehacker – Take Awesome Fireworks Photos for Fame, Glory, and Wallpaper Greatness
• The Digital Story – Just a Little Fireworks Fun
• Photography Reviews – Fireworks Photography Tips

Have a great tip to share? Add it in the comments section!

Have a great 4th!

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Today’s Photo Tip – Get in Close

Use your feet, use your zoom – do whatever it takes to get in close and fill the frame with your subject

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How To Rotate A Text Box in Aperture’s Book Layout

The book tool in Aperture can also be used as an excellent notecard layout tool. In order to add your contact or other information to the back of the card, you will need to create a new text box and rotate it 180 degrees.

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Here are the steps for rotating the text box:

1. Select the text box in the “Edit Layout” mode.
2. Be sure that the Layout Inspector is open (see the “gear” menu).
3. Change the angle in the “Size and Position” brick of the Layout Inspector from 0 to 180 degrees.

Happy Printing!

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Brush in Desaturation using Aperture 3

Some of the most powerful tools in Aperture 3 are the brushes in the individual adjustment bricks. Here is an example of how selective desaturation can be used to eliminate, or at least tone down, harsh shadows in an image.

1. The original RAW image with obvious shadows on the white robes.

1. 2. The shadows can be selectively removed by opening the “Enhance” brick in Aperture, pulling the Saturation slider to the left until the shadows blend in. You will see that the entire image becomes desaturated; however, the image will reset once you choose “Brush Enhance in” from the gear dropdown menu.

1. 3. Adjust the brush to the proper size and paint over the dark brown shadows to selectively desaturate these areas.

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Today’s Ridiculously Simple Photo Tip

IMPROVE YOUR COMPOSITION

Take a break from the mundane.  When you are working with a vertical subject, compose vertically instead of horizontally. Can’t decide? Shoot both!

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