A friend gave me a subscription to Popular Photography magazine. I'll admit, it never occured to me to ever read a photography magazine. I, too, have been guilty of not completely understanding how integrated photography is in our scrapbook universe. I'm still not anywhere near the level of a true photography buff (although my friend told me when she went to pick up the photos I took at her daughter's wedding at Costco that they had written "Copyright?" across her envelope and asked her if she had the right to print the photos!). But, I found some interesting stuff in the magazine. There were several How-To articles about cleaning up your photos in PhotoShop and staging better photos, too.
Here are just a few tidbits I discovered:
- Put your scrapbook pages on a cake! What a fun thing to have a cake with a scrapbook page tribute on it!
- Fun with your digital photos - make fun goodies with your photos
- Shuttermom - sort of the photo industry version of ScrapBiz. Learn how to set up a home-based photography business
- Mpix - print your best photos on professional papers. You can even have them retouched professionally.
If you're really interested in taking better photos or have discovered, through scrapbooking, that you really LIKE taking photos, pick up a copy of a photo magazine or thumb through one at the local library. It's not all about the professional photographer, it's about people like us just trying to take better photos!
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