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Use your own Digital Camera and Adobe Photoshop and put your pictures on your webpage

By Doris Möller

 
One of the challenges
of creating your website is to add your own pictures to a web page. There are four ways to do that. One is to use clip art, another one is to use pictures that are in the public domain, or pictures that are put on your web page by a web designer or - you could take your own pictures and then insert those pictures to your web page. 

Here are some pictures I took with my digital camera and then put into Adobe Photoshop to change either the size, the background, etc.
    

 
       

  
The fourth possibility,
taking your own pictures, is a practical way to put photos on your web page ?if you use a digital Camera and a program like Adobe Photoshop. Digital photography is a miracle. You can take the most beautiful pictures with this photo technology, without being at all knowledgeable about photography. It is so easy. All you need is a good eye. 
 
It allows you
the freedom and independence to be able to put any picture that is suitable for the topic of your web page and put it on your web page. You can design your pictures any way you want and still save money. All you need is the desire to learn how to - and invest in a digital camera. They are so affordable that you have no excuse not to buy one.
 
My digital camera
opened a whole new world for me. I have never been able to take such amazing pictures before. The colors are beautiful. One of the more difficult pictures to take are portraits but with a digital camera they come out great. Because of it I can now do my own virtual imaging of hair styles and hair colors which is extremely useful being a hair stylist. I can take my clients portrait picture with my own hairstyle creations and use it for my web pages.
 

 
Natural Hair Color
   
Gold Highlights painted with
Adobe Photoshop
 
Red Highlights painted with
Adobe Photoshop
 

I also give prints of a new hairstyle to my clients as a gift. This was something that was hard to do when I had a conventional camera. It was expensive and time consuming. Now I can take before - and after hairstyles pictures and put my special updo creation pictures and place them on my web pages in no time.
 
Another way that you can take advantage of this type of camera is to take your own picture. Everybody should do this sometimes as a check up of the way you look. Take a picture of yourself and see how your hairstyle looks on you. Take a digital picture of your new hairstyle.
 
Well, the best way to look at yourself is on a photograph. It will show the “you?to yourself like a mirror never can. It will tell you honestly what you look like. See how your hair style looks on you, and looking at yourself on a photograph really tells you the truth. It’s the best mirror, it doesn’t lie and the easiest way to take your own picture is with a digital camera. Quickly and easily.
 
Here is a Digital Camera buying guide:

Are you ready to take the plunge into the world of digital photography?

The first thing to consider is why you want a digital camera. The answer to this question will form the basis of all your other buying decisions. If you simply want to send snapshots by e-mail or post images on the Internet, you don't need a high resolution camera. If you want to print digital photographs, however, you need a camera with more resolution.

Resolution

Digital cameras are rated by the number of megapixels (millions of pixels) they can record. This is also referred to as their 'resolution 'and is the single most important factor affecting the price of digital cameras. Quite simply, the more megapixels the higher the price.

Images which are only viewed on a computer screen did not need a high resolution. A computer monitor set to 1280x1024 (which is very large) is only displaying about 1.3 megapixels. Any digital camera rated at about two megapixels is suitable for computer images.

Printed pictures, however, are another story. Professional photo shops usually print photographs at 300 dots per inch, and you are likely to be disappointed with pictures printed at less than this standard. A 4 x 6 photograph printed at 300 dots per inch needs an image which has about 2.8 million pixels. That means that digital cameras that are meant to be used for printed pictures should be rated at least three megapixels.

More megapixels doesn't necessarily mean better pictures. All other things being equal (image sensor quality and lens quality) a camera with more megapixels simply allows you to print larger pictures. You also have more options for cropping photos and maintaining standard print sizes.

Budget

Now that you have chosen a minimum megapixel rating, you can look for cameras which fall into your budget. You will most likely want to get the best quality images for your money, and that may mean foregoing some of the fancy features such as video and sound recording. Concentrate on lens quality and image sensor quality.

Lenses are available in either plastic or glass. Glass lenses are superior and will produce crisper, cleaner images. The best cameras will be equipped with lenses by well-known manufacturers such as Leica or Zeiss.

Many digital cameras have a zoom function which allows you to get closer to your subject without moving the camera. There are two types of zoom -- digital and optical. An optical zoom changes the actual length of the lens. Digital zooms simply remove the outside edges of an image and interpolate the result over the area of the image sensor. They do not give as good results as optical zooms and should be avoided if possible.

Image sensors are electronic devices that record the images. The two most popular types are CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) and CCD (Charged-Couple Device). CMOS is the cheaper of the two but the image quality is inferior to CCD.

No matter what your budget, a camera with a good quality lens and CCD image sensor will likely give you pleasing digital photographs.

 



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