I love architecture, and so the Bi Weekly challenge of Windows was most appealing.

There are :-

Old Windows
New Windows
Broken Windows

and Blue Windows

To insert a photo into your story follow these steps.
First go to your new stories  page.
Select your photo from the dropdown  menu then click “insert”
The name of the photo will correspond to the name you gave it when you uploaded it.
If you wish you can change the text from the photo for your story, just changethis text  in the tag. (don’t change any thing else in this or your photo will not appear.)
Always preview your story before you post it to make sure it looks the way you want it to.
Hope this helps.
Blessings
DSW

Jim Brandenburg, a National Geographic Photographer and native Minnesotan, is opening an exhibit of prairie photos at the Bell Museum in Minneapolis. I think his images are gorgeous...almost like paintings. A link to a slideshow of his work with commentary from Jim is included below. Info on the exhibit is listed at the bottom.

http://www.startribune.com/319/story/687910.html

Exhibit: "Touch the Sky: Prairie Photographs by Jim Brandenburg" runs Oct. 1 through December at the Bell Museum, 10 SE. Church St., Minneapolis. Admission is $5 for adults, $3 for students and seniors. Opening reception at 7 p.m. Sept. 30. $25, includes light refreshments and a preview of Brandenburg's new film.

Photographica is the coolest site on the internet to share your photographs with the world. With over 10,000 members now, Photographica has grown exponentially the last year or so--and we're glad you've decided to join in the fun. Here are a couple of pointers to help you master the site:

Submit a story just once every 24 hours. We appreciate your enthusiasm, but the front page only holds 30 stories at a time. When you post, the story on the bottom drops to the second page, where it receives much less traffic. If you post two or three stories in a row, two or three stories will drop off the front page. Be nice to your fellow member and just post once per day. Remember, you can post any number of pictures within your post as you want.

Read the Help Page, and PREVIEW! If your picture is not appearing in your story as a popup when you Preview, it will not appear when you click Submit. You need to manually insert your photos into your story. You do this by choosing your photo from the dropdown menu to the right of the text body on the Submit New Story page. You can then change the words "Description_Here" to whatever you want to title your picture. Like this! Remember, you can Preview as many times as you need to--but you can Submit only once.

Read through the Q&A Section.You can read all the questions others have come up with by clicking on the Q&A link in the right-hand blue box on every page. There you can learn how editors delete your photos upon request, you can create avatars to show up when you make comments, and why the Photo Journals section is so cool. This site rewards exploration--no question is dumb, and no question hasn't come up before.

This is a community.The great thing about Photographica is its members and community. Don't just submit photos--comment on other members' work! The more feedback we get, the better photographers we'll all be.

Put your money where your pictures are.Help make this the best photo site on the web: Subscribe! You not only get access to cool features, you're helping with the administrative costs and doing your part. You'll be the among the first to try out new features as Cory implements them, too.

Have fun.Photographica is a rewarding site that encourages discussion, debate and, within reason, controversy. We're only as good as our members.

Questions?Contact info for your Editors is at the top of every page, by clicking the About link.

Last Friday I visited Ground Zero for the first time and was filled with many emotions; sadness and respect, shame, deep emptiness,  fear, and hope.  Peace be with you.

  I know it's kind of patting myself on the back, but I wanted to share my happieness with the family of photographers that have shared in the past with me their advancements in their photography work. This is a link to a web site that has nothing but my photo's for their product...once their, click under the protfolio tab, at the top of the page...there you'll find all my shots...for me it's cool, I hope for you (if you take the time)...it will be enjoyable also.

http://www.chicogallery.com/

I've started to sell some of my images. However, how would I go about registering a copyright of the prints I publish? Tried to search the net, but very unclear info,( or I'm not clear on what I'm looking for.....) Maybe I don't even need it?
How to register is probably different from Scandinavia to the US- although copyright is still copyright in any country.

David Whyte writes;

"Like a sail conversing conversing with the wind, every sail will respond differently to the elements according to its shape and the vessel it propels.  And the response of the sail, with a steady  hand at the tiller, creates movement and direction."

(Photos taken at the 2006 Volvo Ocean Race (around the world) Restart off Annapolis MD in the Chesapeake Bay on May 7 2006)

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Canon just announced the new Rebel XTi and 2 L lenses:
70-200 f/4L IS and 50mm 1.2L
http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=NewProductsAct&fcategoryid=101

Thought you might find this preview of the new Nikon D80 of interest.

http://www.dpreview.com/articles/nikond80/

How do i get an image to change formats?  I have an image that I edited on Microsoft Paint (I can't afford Photoshop) , and am trying to upload it to another site, but the site only takes JPEG or PNG files.  Any help would be greatly appriciated.  Thank you.

2006-07 Egyptian Eye Project

Look at this site....The birds look like they are 3D....There is a hummeringbird festival in Ft. Davis, Tx and his link was there...I'd love to be able to do photography this way...It's very interesting!http://www.birdsinflight.net/intro.html

I put this in Articles but not sure where it will go so if it didn't end up the right place ....could an editor please move it for me? Thanks!

So for the first time I have uploaded pictures onto this wee site here and it has ballzed up, giving me that lovly white box and red cross instead of my pictures.

However the 'Modify image' link I need to use to get the picture uploaded correctly doesn't work.

Help!

I was at the gas station pouring a stale cup of coffee at 5:00 AM this morning getting on my way to Indiana Shades State Park located about 17 miles southwest of Crawfordsville (off S.R. 47).  It used to be called "Shades of Death" because 600 Indian warriors from two tribes fought a battle there.  The winning tribe was left with 7 out of the 12 survivors.  

I headed south down US 41 until I hit Kentland.   I saw a diner filled with semis and pick up trucks.Trucks Stop   That means that the food is good and cheap.  I stopped at Joe's Fillin Station Diner. Eat at Joes It looks like and old gas station from decades ago that was converted.  Great breakfast, service, price and atmosphere.  The locals couldn't be nicer.

I got to Shades about 9:30 and attacked the "Rugged Trails" for hours.  I was hoping to do every trail in one day but my joints wanted to go home.  It was a great day and I reccomend this trip to anyone who wants to get away from everything and everyone for a day.  It is very quiet.Light Shower   I did not see a single person on any of the "Rugged" trails.  Those are the ones to take if you want to avoid other humans all together.climb

I know it was suppossed to be 87 degrees but it felt like 67 under the umbrella of the trees. trees  When you wind down the ravines, it feels like you are walking into an air conditioned room.  Very cool. cool  You will not need sunscreen.

I have three more trails to conquer before the state of Indiana considers changing the name of the park in my honor.  Fear not Indiana, I will return.green

All the steps we will be doing are for example purposes only. They are basic edits so you can post a photo on Photographica. You can keep the finished action or just use it to practice making more actions. It's just to give you an idea of how this all works. I use Photoshop CS so you may have to adjust things according to the version of PS you use.

Open up the photo you want to use then minimize it.

Step 1: Go to Windows at the top of your screen, click on it, in the drop down menu make sure Actions has a check mark. This will put the Action Pallette on your screen. Or for a shortcut click Alt+F9.

step 1

Step 2: Once the action pallette is showing click the arrow in the circle to bring out the drop down menu.

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Step 3: We need to make a NEW SET. Name this set MY ACTIONS so you know that they are the ones you made.

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Step 4:  A box will pop up, this is where you name your set MY ACTIONS.

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Step 5:  Now go back to the arrow with the circle in the action pallete, click it to bring down the drop down menu again. Go to  New Action.

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Step 6:  We have to name out action, we'll call it BASIC WEB EDIT/RESIZE.

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Step 7:  After we name it choose the drop down menu below Name in Set, find My Actions.

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Step 8:  Push Record in the box, EVERYTHING YOU DO NOW WILL BE RECORDED FOR YOUR ACTION. (Note: with every edit you do such as levels, when you push OK that is what it records, if you hit cancel because you did it wrong it won't record that, ONLY WHEN YOU CLICK OK.}

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 Now pull up the photo you have minimized in Photoshop. Edit it by using levels, contrast, sharpen and resize it to whatever size you usually use for Photographica. If you do just the edits I stated you will have 4 steps in your action since you pushed OK 4 times.

If all looks good you must push STOP PLAYING/RECORDING on the bottom of your action pallette.

action pallette function keys

You've just created your first action!

Let's see if it works. Close out the photo you just ran the action on and bring up a new one. Go to your action pallette and click on MY ACTION so it's highlighted, there's an arrow next to it on the left, if the arrow is pointing to the right click the arrow so it points down, you should see BASIC WEB EDIT/RESIZE, click on it so it's highlighted, then at the bottom of your action pallette push play. The action should run and you should see the photo being edited. When it stops save it like you would normally.

If for some reason it doesn't work right, just delete it and start over.

When you get the knack of this you can always adjust steps, delete steps or add steps to an action but that's another tutorial. You can add different actons together or batch edit. Batch edit is running an action on multiple photos, yet another tutorial. I hope this helps some of you that are interesting in stuff like this. You can find tons of free actions to download on the web, always save them in C:/Photoshop/plug-ins folder. When you download a new action from the web to open it in PS just go to the action pallette, click the arrow/circle, in the drop down menu go to load actions, then go into the photoshop/plug-in folder and find the action, double click it to load it, it should appear in the pallette after that.

Have Fun!

Note: Actions will only work on Photoshop not Picasa or Arc Soft, you can make actions for Paint Shop Pro but I have no idea how.

can anyone tell me what happened to the store????

I've been away from photographica for a while, but noticed that story thumbnails aren't showing up on the home page. ...

Is this a setting I can control, or is cory tinkering?

Anybody here ever heard of or use the Shutterfly Photo Service? Any info would be helpful. The web site is a bit sketchy on details. I'm curious about print prices, quality, speed of delivery, the web photo storage service, etc. Thanks.

Regards,

Porkchop

I was looking for some tips to photographing fireworks and found this

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/936

any other tips and tricks that anyone would care to share?

i want to use this photoTurtle as the picture next to my name when i post comments, can anyone tell me how?  The file is too big to load as the avator, but i have already uploaded it into my images.

Hi.  I want to start my own booth in  art festivals/shows.  By no means does this have to be done now, I was just thinking of it now.  I was just wondering-About how much money do you think I should invest in this?

Once again, it will probably be at least 3-4 years before I do this if I decide to do so, and I could probably make the money by then.

What is the best photo software to buy? I am looking to do photo overlays, redesign pics, do slide shows w/wo music, and so on. Does anyone have suggestions? Kodak you can only do so much and I really don't like it to much.

1.  Choose a background size for your new project.
a.  Open all pictures you want in your new storyboard.  Write down the sizes of the images.  Decide what height/length will absolutely be needed.  I generally add a couple 100 pixels, cause I know I can crop later.

2.  Choose background color.  
a.  I like to use the eyedropper tool.  (looks like a little eyedropper).  Click this tool on a picture with a color you would like to use.  The eyedropper will automatically change foreground color (two boxes overlapping on your tools menu).  Once you choose your color click on the little curved arrow on top right corner, this allows you to switch between foreground and background.  
b.  If you would rather, just click on the background (the two boxes that overlap each other on your tools menu...)click on bottom one, pick color from there.

3.  Create your new project.  
a.  enter size
b.  chose Background color on Background Contents

4.  Open layers menu from the Windows tab (or F7 for shortcut).
5.  Using Marquee Tool (box made with dotted lines), choose the part of your original picture you want to put onto your new project.  After selecting photo, use Move Tool (arrow with compass looking arrows slightly to right).  Click on original and hold down mouse while dragging it onto the new project.  Repeat for each picture.

Placing pictures on new project

6.  By clicking in layers menu (on new project), choose a particular layer you would like to move.  You must be on Move Tool to position your pictures.

Arranging photos on new project

7.  Once you are satified with placement of pictures.  Choose a foreground color for wording.  (Using either Eyedropper Tool or clicking on box).
8.  Click on Text Tool (the big T).  Click inside new project and start typing.  If you cannot see what you are writing, you may have the type size too small.  Change font size to much larger and you should see it.  You will need to highlight entire printed section to change size, font and color.
9.  By moving mouse away from type, you can easily move wording around.  Or you may opt to use Move Tool.  

Adding Text

10.  Once you have everything, look to see if you need to crop.  You may need to move things around again to get centered before cropping.  
11.  Save often throughout process. Once you are happy with final project, save as a JPEG.  I usually close the project and RE-OPEN the JPEG picture.  This will be a "flattened" project (meaning you can no longer move layers as they are all one flattened image).  After re-opening, I resize and download to Photographica.

Finished Project

I have tried and tried to get my photos uploaded. I have made sure that they are in jpg. and in the right size. I even turned them into thumbnails on my other web site and this site is telling me that they are either corrupt or it is in a file formatt that it doesn't understand. What? I am new here and this is becoming frustrating. HELP!!

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Okay, so we know that a suspritzed diamagnetic synchronizing filter doesn't REALLY exist, but I've also heard that you really SHOULD use a filter, and that there are lots (Gobs I think) different types of filters... So....

1. Has someone already taken the time to explain different filters? If so, could I have the link?
2. If not, would any of our more "salty" photo-masters mind taking a minute and tapping out what filters a beginner (like me) should start with, and what filters one may grow into?

Thanks everyone...

C

Okay, I've been away from Photographica for a few months, but in scanning the Q & A and in the forums I haven't noticed anything to clue me in on what I think I may need clueing in on.

>whew<

Okay. I uploaded a couple of photos of ducks tonight. These photos I did not think merited being on the front page so I did as I have in the past with photos like this, I put them in my photolog.

But when I click on "main" to bring me to the front page here, I saw my post, as well as in the photolog. I did indeed select "my photolog" and not "general photography" for the section.

Did I goof up? Has something changed? Am I just remembering something incorrectly?