also, any tips and tricks with lighting? like fading i could use for a senior photos?

Hi folks, what are your favourite web links for info, research and reviews etc… ?
Photography?
Lighting?
Photoshop / post production?
Printing?
Computer systems: set-up, troubleshooting, maintenance?
Software?
Equipment, scanners, printers cameras?
Ergonomics?
Reviews?
… anything digital photography related!

Can you star this one please contacts, thanks!
… oddly I know Google, Yahoo etc. – I’m asking for YOUR favourites please…

I have a moderate amount of experience in photoshop, but i’ve never learned how to create realistic looking hair. I want to take a picture of someone and give them long “elvis hair”. How would i do this? The person I’m editing has short, smooth hair, so i can’t simply clone stamp more hair on. It needs to look bushy and long. Any tips?

I have started an internet company, and we are looking for competent people to produce video’s for us on how to use various software applications. I am having real problems finding the right people. What are the best sites to advertise on? How can I best get in contact with the right people?

In essence I need to find a good strategy to find people to make the video’s. The rate of pay is on a per video basis with most people averaging about $20 an hour or more. We are having trouble finding people to meet our needs. We have tried approaching people on Youtube / other video sites, but his has proved very inefficient. We did approach people that work for competing websites, but they are asking too much. We are a start-up site, with limited financial resources.

All that is needed is someone with a clear voice, and good knowledge of specific software, and free software and a microphone (found on most webcams). The computer would record the screen, while you give an audio commentary (on how to reconfigure the autocorrect in Microsoft Word (for example)).

Over the next 4-8 weeks are looking to produce 30-100 high quality video tutorials for each of the following subjects:

•Vista,
•Windows XP,
•Excel,
•Outlook,
•Powerpoint,
•Publisher, Photoshop CS,

An audio commentary would be required, and an example of our site content can be found on visiting www.helpvids.info (soon to be www.helpvids.com !).

If you know of anyone that could help please reply to this post or email videos@helpvids.info .

Obviously I am open to other strategies or suggestions for commissioning people on a “work for hire” basis? What are the best sites for me to go on?

I’m an art photographer who uses computers for simple photo editing (as in Photoshop) as well as the regular stuff like e-mail, Internet and word processing. I also use computers to archive my entire music collection (mp3) and listen to it.

I’ve just purchased my first laptop (a Sony Vaio) and would like to give Linux a try (as the only OS installed). I’m interested in encrypting the whole thing (with something like TrueCrypt). Generally I want to save resources by using a simple, straightforward OS with no silly bells and whistles such as the ridiculous Windows Vista graphics.

I want to spend as little time as possible having to program stuff and as much time as possible getting the task done. The OS should be self-explanatory and user-friendly, but it should also give me some control over how my computer is run.

Which Linux version do you recommend?

Does anyone have any tips/tricks to “cartoon-ize” a regular photograph in Photoshop? Any special mix of filters? Thanks!
Hmm, for some reason under ‘Filter,’ ‘Artistic’ is grayed out.

ok..
i’ve downloaded adobeCS3 master collection from torrent..
i’ve successfully installed all files and its working except for 1..
the adobe bridge..
it says after i opened it “The Adobe Bridge Home service has been discontinued
in order to focus resources on other efforts.”
how can i fix this?
i’ve downloaded another torrent file with adobe bridge in it but same problem occur..
i don’t find any comments on the solution of adobe bridge..
and resorted to yahoo!answers..
please help..

i know its hard to use photoshop without adobe bridge..
thanks..

I’ve spent DAYS working on this digital painting of Freddie Mercury for my portfolio, and now when I go to open in in PCS3, it’s telling me that it doesn’t support the file?! I DON’T HAVE ANYTHING ELSE! I’m about to go on a killing rampage if it doesn’t work! What can I do!?
I did this painting of Freddie Mercury on PCS3, how can it not support it’s own file?!

I can’t seem to find out how to crop a part of pix and reconstruct it to make a picture look slim and toned. Thanx to whom may help me on this one, ur help is greatly appreciated!!

So over the years i’ve been taking alot of pictures with my digital camera. I now have over 4,000 pictures on my hard drive adding up to about 6 gigs. Digital cameras these days take pictures that are SO large in size that i’ve found that it’s best to open them up in paint and shrink them down in size a bit and that cuts the file size down a good bit too. Since i have an insane amount of pictures, is there a program out there that will shrink them down in bulk?