Podcast listening and Links from within

I have been listen to a few podcasts and from there I have created to following links:

Getting the best out of shadows in photoshop http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-editing/shadow-highlight/
Google image swirl, try it  http://image-swirl.googlelabs.com/

Photobook ideas http://www.blurb.com/create/book/portfolio

Find blogs http://www.fastblogfinder.com/

http://www.pixelatedimage.com/blog/

http://blog.tylerginter.com/

tiltshift without the lens http://www.tiltshiftphotography.net/photoshop-tutorial.php

http://www.stuckincustoms.com/

http://www.weebly.com/

http://www.joemcnally.com/blog/

http://www.kelbytraining.com/

Have a go at stacking in Lightroom
http://x-equals.com/blog/?p=4057&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+xequalsblog+(x%3Dblog%2Bstay%2Binformed)

Some mac stuff
http://appbodega.com/

Keywords, Lightroom and Flickr and few other things

I have been using Flickr, Facebook and a number of other sites for a good while now. When it comes to posting my photos I have always been slow updating keywords about the shots.

For those that do not know what keywords are, well they are the words that people like you and I type into search engines etc to find image content.

Adobes Lightroom has a great function of adding key words to all images prior to uploading. Type in the words, they enter a database within Lightroom and before you know it you have a large list that you can use over and over again.

When you export your images to Flickr or another image site the keywords go with it.  Try it

Flickr.

Hunting around on Flickr and viewing others shot for a while now. One thing I really like is the content attached to images. However writing your own image info is not always easy. One idea I have seen a few time is the attachment of Wikipedia information and links to shots, just like this one.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sid_man/4169033224/

You can see that I have also added a copyright before the image just link this. Hopefully it will stop images being used without my OK.

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Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. © All rights reserved

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And finally

A few shots uploaded recently to Flickr of Danielle and Fiona.