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12 Favorite East Coast Photography Locations

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While many think the west is the best when it comes to landscape photography, there are many locations on the East Coast that provide sweeping vistas, plentiful wildlife and spectacular seasons. Here are 12 must-see East Coast locations for landscape, nature and wildlife photography. 1. Coastal Areas, Maine With 57 active lighthouses, 30-plus miles of white sand beaches, and thousands of miles of rocky shoreline and tidal inlets, and you have one of the best places in the world for shooting beautiful seascapes. 2. Crawford Notch State Park, White Mountains, New Hampshire Located in the heart of New Hampshire’s White Mountains, Crawford Notch State Park encompasses 5,575 acres and offers towering cliffs, granite outcrops, impressive waterfalls, lakes, ponds and potential wildlife sightings. 3. Salisbury Beach State Reservation, Massachusetts On the northern coast of Massachusetts lies a destination that’s well known by birders: Salisbury Beach State Reservation. It’s ...

How to Batch Resize Images Quickly Using Photoshop

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While it’s relatively easy to write an Action to resize a series of images in Photoshop, it’s easier still to get Photoshop to do all the work for you. Photoshop comes with an image processor script that will open, resize, and save a series of images for you – very quickly. Here are the steps to make the batch resize process work for your images. Batch resizing images in PS CC 2019 is fast and easy – no need to run an action. You can just run a script in the Image Processor menu option. Step 1 – Image Processor The Image Processor option lives under the Scripts tab in the main File menu of Photoshop. Choose File -> Scripts -> Image Processor. The image processor dialog shows a simple four-step process for resizing the images. Step 2 – Choose images In Section 1 of the Image Processor dialog, select to either resize the images already open in Photoshop (if you have them open) or click ‘Select Folder’ and choose a folder of images to resize. Select ‘Include all ...

How to Become a Photographer Step-by-Step Guide

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Owning a camera doesn’t make you a photographer any more than having a pet goldfish makes you a marine biologist. So how do you go from camera owner to photographer, or even professional photographer? Every photographer started out a bit differently. Some started taking photos before the digital photography era. Others took online classes, while others hang fully-fledged degrees from their office walls. Many learn by picking themselves back up after falling flat on their faces and trying again. Me? I got started with a high school mentor who started me off with film and processing in the darkroom. She taught me the importance of taking your time to think through each shot, and that the more pictures you take, the better you’ll get. But not everyone has a mentor to nudge them in the right direction — which is why we’ve mapped out a set of recommended steps to get from camera-owner to photographer with minimal detours along the way. Ready to get more from your camera, challenge ...

How to Edit Live Photos on Your iPhone

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Live photos are basically three second movie files—3D press the photo and watch it move. The cool thing, though, is you can edit them in the Photos app just like they were any other photo. Here’s how to edit your live photos, as well as change the key photo and video length, and convert them to different formats. How to Edit the Crop, Color, and Contrast of Your Live Photos Apple has tried really hard to make Live Photos as simple and easy to work with as regular images. Despite having a three second video embedded in the file, all the editing tools in the Photos app work as normal. Open a Live Photo in the Photos app, and then tap the “ Edit ” option. Use the crop, filter, and adjustments tools to make any changes you want. Edits you make are applied to both the photo and the video. We won’t go into detail on those tools RELATED: How to Blur Faces and Names in Photos with Skitch App? When you’re happy with the changes, tap “Done” to save them. How to Change t...