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Articles, Resources, Toys and Tools

Basically, these are a series of embarrassingly old articles on photography. I was young, I was dumb, etc, but you may find them useful anyway. More tutorials, tips and suggestions are on their way.

General articles:

• Digital workflow (how to keep 50 GB+ of photographs organised on a day-to-day basis. Article from 2004)

Photoshop articles and tutorials

• Photoshop Tools: An introduction(a very bare-bones introduction to the PS tools)
• Straightening horizons on a photograph (using arbitrary rotation and the measurement tool)
• The Channel Mixer: From colour to Black and White
• The Levels Tool: Contrast in photos
• The Unsharp Mask (USM) tool: Sharpening photographs

Photography articles and tutorials

• The Compact Camera: How to take better pictures (old article from 1999)
• Devil Eyes: the Red eye effect, what it is, and what to do about it. (introduction for beginners, article updated 2004)
• EV - An introduction to Photography theory (2001)
• Respect in Photography (2004) - A rant on morality versus legality in Photography
• Macro on the cheap (2005) - How to build an extreme macro lens for £1.

Tools:

• Black and white developing database (dev times for 1500+ combinations of films and developers)
• Photo Matrix (just an old toy I programmed back in the day)