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If you’ve ever processed your photos in software such as Aperture or Lightroom, you might have made adjustments to those photos. Check out how Adobe has included a useful mode called Camera Raw in Bridge CS3 to allow you to make the same type of adjustments to photos you might not want to mix with your Aperture or Lightroom library.

At the Creative License Tour, one of the presenters demonstrated to us how two new features in Photoshop CS3 allowed him to take 3 photographs he took on the side of the road and stitch it into a larger photograph. In this post, I explain how to use these two new features; Auto-Align and Auto-Blend, on your photographs and achieve jaw-dropping results.

Yesterday I went to a BBQ at Bowness Park. It sounded like a fun event, so I brought along my Canon EOS 20D not knowing what to expect.

Throughout the day, I found these tips I’ve learned from various sources to be really really useful. These are also geared towards intermediate digital camera owners (break out of automatic mode if you haven’t done so already!)

PicLens is currently a Safari-only extension in its beta stages with Firefox and IE versions said to be in the works. It adds interactivity to most of the popular photo spots on the web by allowing you to convert your experience of browsing through a gallery of thumbnails, into a more cinematic one. The most notable feature of this extension is the ability to see photos in full-screen that is just a click away. What’s even more special is that when Piclens displays the photo in full-screen, it seems to be able to access the highest resolution photo available, even if the author wishes to restrict access to higher resolutions of their photo.

Back in January, I helped out with the University of Calgary’s websites by migrating existing static pages over to Drupal. While there, my supervisor wished to change a few banner images as the old ones were a little stale. I offered some photographs I took for them to use and I’m happy to see that they’re using them on the Prospective and Current Students sections of their website.