updated 3/12/11
Tutorials
http://vimeo.com/videoschool Lots of tutorials on photography and sound as well as video.
Sources of images
Flickr, of course
Finding Free Creative Commons Pictures http://wylio.com/
Photo editing and digital asset management
Adobe Lightroom — seems to have replaced Aperture completely, at least among serious photographers. For my money, absolutely the only choice (other than Photoshop). Works well with Photoshop.
Aperture
iPhoto – basic, but it works
Picasa
Adobe Photoshop Elements
Advanced Photo Editing
Adobe Photoshop, of course
Camera Reviews
dpreview is probably the best out there — unlike sources like CNET, these people are photographers. It also hosts useful forums.
Photography
Good source of how-tos and examples: http://photomatters.org
Photo Editing Tools
Photoshop family:
- Photoshop Express Online Tools – free online editor, organizer, and slideshows. I don’t much like their online editor — it’s not flexible enough. But definitely easy.
- Photoshop Express for iPhone and iPad
- Adobe Photoshop Elements (Windows and Mac) Handles uploading, organizing, editing, and sharing ($80 or so)
- Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3: Absolutely the best all arounbd resource for digital resource management and most development/editing, if you know what you’re doing. ($82.50 academic pricing; Mac and Windows; 30-day trial available. ASUC computer store carries it.) LR3 can handle video from dSLRs.
- Photoshop. The most complex and most powerful. Not easy, not cheap, but academic pricing is available.
Mac Preview function: to my surprise, has pretty good editing tools.
iPhoto, of course
With Flickr.com, Facebook, Picasa, or from your own computer: Piknik
Photographic Resources
( Let me know if you find broken links.)
Advice for point-and-shoot camera users:
- http://photo.net/learn/point-and-shoot-tips
- http://lifehacker.com/323605/master-your-dslr-camera-part-1-program-mode
- Exposure triangle
- http://digital-photography-school.com/10-questions (lots of good info on this site)
- Using presets
- White balance (easy and important for accurate color)
- Exposure
- Aperture and shutter priority More control than just auto mode
- Shutter speed
- Backgrounds
- Troubleshooting and some basic info
Editing (adjusting the image):
Cameraphones
The latest list comes from photography superstore, Adorama, which announced the winners of its first annual APPOS – iPhone App Awards for Photography today. What stands out about this top photo app list is that the winners were chosen from apps that avid iPhone photographers actually use. You see, Adorama also ran an iPhone photography contest that drew over 17,000 image submissions. A panel of judges then selected the top 10 iPhone apps from among the apps that were most frequently used to create the 17,000 images. The six judges included acclaimed photographers, journalists, photojournalists, and oddly, sports radio show hosts.
Audio
Free (and pretty good) audio editing software: Audacity Mac and Windows
Recording phone calls using Google Voice — the major limitations: they have to call you, doesn’t work when you call them.
Slideshows: Images and Sound
iPhoto
http://soundslides.com/ — pretty good. Windows and Mac. Free demo. $40 basic; $70 pro.
Video
Free and Open-source Vertov:
As of 10/15/10 the current version of Vertov is not compatible with the current version of Zotero.
Vertov is a free media annotating plugin for Zotero, an innovative,
easy-to-use, and infinitely extendable research tool. Both are Firefox
extensions. Vertov allows you to cut video and audio files into clips,
annotate the clips, and integrate your annotations with other research
sources and notes stored in Zotero.
http://digitalhistory.concordia.ca/vertov/
iMovie
Jaycut – see Lifehacker description. Web, free.