Resources Page
Welcome to our Photography Tips Resources page! Here you will find a directory of many different tried and trusted resources which we’ve used. The products listed here range from software and services to photography tips and tricks to help you become a better photographer.
ACDSee is the ultimate organization and display tool for your photographic endeavors. You can manage, view, process, and publish your images all from one full-featured application. Several versions are available for both beginning and power users. Learn more at ACDSee.
B&H has long been world renowned as the go-to retailer for all things relating to photography, video, audio, and digital imaging. They offer unparalleled customer service, an incredible product selection, and some of the best prices available online. We’ve used them for nearly 20 years for all things photography from camera bodies to filters. If you have a purchase on the horizon, be sure to check their pricing at B&H.
Canvas On Demand is a great product that offers several different styles of canvas prints for your photographs. Canvas prints are a great way to display your photographs. They have several styles and sizes available. Learn more at Canvas On Demand.
If you’re tired of low-yielding cheap ink cartridges for your home photo printing, check out Carrot Ink. They offer cartridges for most of the big brand name printers for 30 to 70% less than retail prices. The best part is that they offer quality products which can be hard to find in the world of online discount ink. Be sure to visit them at Carrot Ink.
One of the coolest products we’ve used is Green Screen Wizard. This software allows you to have the background flexibility offered by much more expensive green screen systems, but with the Green Screen Wizard Software, all you need is an inexpensive green fabric background to create amazing backdrops for your pictures. They even offer a free demo. Visit Green Screen Wizard to learn more.
Kodak Gallery is a great resource for creating all sorts of products and projects from your images. They offer everything from calendars to mousepads, but also provide one of the more comprehensive photo sharing databases around. Additionally, they offer very competitive pricing on digital prints. Visit Kodak Gallery to find out more.
Learn Digital Photography is one of our favorite resources for taking your photography to the next level. Dan Feildman and noted Photoshop Guru David Peters offer a number of photography tips and tricks that will help you start capturing better images in no time. You can check them out at Learn Digital Photography.
If you are befuddled by Photoshop’s myriad of features like most of us, David Peters video crash course is a great place to begin. He will walk you through mastering many of the basic and advanced functions in no time with Learn Photoshop in 2 Hours.
If you’re interested in starting a home-based photography business, John Carroll has put together a great resource called Photographers Needed. You’ll learn several methods of marketing and selling your photographs both locally and online. If you’re interested in actually making money from your photos, be sure to check it out at Photographers Needed.
Let’s face it: we all still have negatives and prints that are sitting around that we’d love to have digital copies of. ScanCafe is the leading print and negative scanning service online. We’ve used them several times and been really happy with the results. It can save you literally hundreds of hours. They work with all types of formats and will even accept albums. If you have negatives, slides, or prints that you’re interested in having scanned, visit them at ScanCafe to learn more.
So this is just a purely fun resource, but Trick Photography is a really cool ebook that we tried out a while back. Evan Sharboneau has put together some amazing photography tips and techniques for capturing mind-bending images. If you’re interested in impressing your family or friends, this is a really fun resource. Visit Trick Photography for a sampling of the techniques they teach in the book.
