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SWPP & BPPA members are in for a real treat with the latest edition Professional Imagemaker. This edition is packed full of informative articles in this 160 page bumper edition.

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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Workflow
Get the most out of Lightroom with Tim Grey as your guide by reducing the time and effort you spend storing, selecting, and editing your digital images. Adobe’s new Lightroom software, together with this practical guide, explains everything from importing and cataloguing to processing and archiving. Whether you’re a professional photographer or advanced amateur, you’ll find ways to work efficiently with Lightroom in order to improve your productivity and get the results you want.
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Wedding Photography Now
Modern couples often foot their own wedding bills, and many know exactly how they want their photographs to look and how much they're prepared to pay for them. This has led to huge demand in cutting-edge photography and wedding photojournalism.
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Photoshop CS3 RAW
The combination of Bridge 2.0, Adobe Camera Raw 4, and Adobe Photoshop CS3 has emerged as the best and most familiar way to edit RAW images, and the best way to master this workflow is with Photoshop CS3 RAW. Award-winning author Mikkel Aaland explores the entire RAW process, from shooting your images, to managing your shoot, to processing in Camera Raw. The book's unique four-color design helps you grasp the subject through visual instruction and prompts.
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Creative Digital Darkroom
This tutorial takes photographers beyond the quick tips and gimmicky effects of many digital photography books. Author Katrin Eismann -- an internationally acclaimed artist, bestselling author, and gifted educator -- offers high-profile work, including her own, as examples for teaching photographers how to use the digital medium to create, edit, and output images that reflect their true vision.
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Take Your Photography to the Next Level
This book is for the photographer who strives to achieve a higher level of results in their work. "Take Your Photography to the Next Level" is based on a series of essays originally featured on the popular Luminous Landscape website. Barr tackles some of the rarely discussed, yet essential aspects of successful photography. Here is where photographers will learn what is required in order to grow in their creativity and to gain a deeper understanding of their craft. With a foreward by Michael Reichmann.
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50 Fast Digital Camera Techniques, 2nd Edition
Your digital camera is an amazing and versatile creative tool, with features and capabilities you probably haven't even explored-until now. Here are step-by-step instructions for 50 hot new techniques that take advantage of all the latest camera features, fully illustrated with stunning color photos taken by the author. No matter what type of digital camera you have, this book will help you create more professional pictures
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A little later than usual, though the judging for January has now taken place and the images that scored most can be found on our web site at: http://www.swpp.co.uk/image_competition_jan_2008/winnerspg01.htm We have listened carefully to feedback from our members and have altered the scoring system to make it somewhat easier, an explanation of the marking system can be found at: http://www.swpp.co.uk/comps.htm

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SWPP & BPPA are pleased to announce the 2009 Convention dates:
January 14th-19th 2009 - Venue Novotel London West
Trade Show Dates: 16th-18th January 2009

Exhibitors are also booking in for up-to-date Convention 2009 Information see:

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