We hope you're enjoying your summer. We just wrapped up a great Photoshop World where we recorded a bunch of great podcasts and met many of our readers face-to-face. We wanted to share some tutorials and resources with you to help you out with your photography. We hope you find these tips helpful.

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The team at Photofocus has put together a collection of free presets to help you get the most out of HDRsoft’s Photomatix Pro. These presets are absolutely FREE, you just need to join our mailing list to get them.

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Marketing your portfolio can be one of the most challenging aspects of conducting business in the photography profession. Ensuring that you have an optimal online portfolio is critical to making client connections and ensuring business success

JOIN US for this FREE Webinar as ASMP Member and Adobe Expert Presenter - Rich Harrington of Photofocus shares practical advice on how to create an optimal online portfolio, and introduces Piqsure’s advanced technologies for producing and protecting high resolution imaging in your portfolios.

There are so many different types of tripod heads and it can get confusing on which one to use depending on what you’re shooting. I like it when my gear complements my photography, rather than getting in the way or making my job harder. Here’s a breakdown of the most popular types of tripod heads.

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I love black and white photography. Perhaps its the newspaper journalist in me… but I just adore a beautiful grayscale image that pops off the page. Black and white photography is frequently a misunderstood technique in the digital age. Many photographers incorrectly shoot and post-process their photos. I’d like to share one workflow (but its my favorite).

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Last week in Las Vegas, I joined up with the Photofocus team to attend Photoshop World. It’s become a tradition of late for our readers, authors, vendors and sponsors to get together with us at a few social events surrounding Photoshop World. This year we again held our famous Readers’ Breakfast at the lovely Mandalay Bay Buffet and we also spent time with everyone at our annual Photoshop World Party at the Pinball Hall of Fame Museum.

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The LR/Instagram plug-in is a great addition to your Lightroom Publishing Services.When you post an image from Lightroom to Instagram, the plug-in keeps the images in sync. If you modify the image, change the caption or decide you want to remove it from the catalog, the plug-in will send those changes to Instagram. Pretty cool! Here’s how to install it.

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If you’ve been paying attention at all during the last five years, you’ve seen the expansion (and popularity) of digital video, Many photographers have felt the need to add video to their services if they want to remain relevant (and especially if they want to get paid).

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