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We show you how to use Photoshop’s Blending layers and Quick Mask mode 7 66 TTRRIIPPOODDSS RRAATTEEDD FFRROOMM ££1133--££4400 Discover how to compose & take perfect photos of individuals and groups We reveal the best buys for top-quality results 2 How to achieve ideal skintones and facial expressions 2 Flatter your subject – top photo tips & image-editing tricks 2 Ideas, poses and camera settings – we show you how 9 F E 7 BR 7 U EXCLUSIVE! 5 ALL-NEW 147 ARY 9 2 0 0 0 7 7 7 TIPS & IDEAS CARDS 010 3 0 3 OWmLhoYyvMe it t’Pso U t5imS m eCe -tg5oa 0mpiTxaeEkleSs TthEeD MIvne-IrdsNeioOpntL hoT fAr et vhDiiesI wMcl aoAsfsG itchE em 7 loaHdteieslt FTeafUfkiJceIi eaFn IltNo eoEnkPt raIytX- tl ehAvis3e el0 ac3asym aenrad 2B4a rpceolsoensa f,o Pr acionut pSlheos pa nPdro w koemybeona,r dw shheorert ctuot tsa akned p mhootroes! in PRINTED02INTHE£4.99 UK British Landmark SeriesWiltshire, England 2 MEET YOUR 2 TEAM Our promise 4 to our readers 8 Nick Merritt STARTHERE Every month we will show you how Managing Editor to capture and create better pictures, give clear, independent buying Nick’s background is technology and recommendations on the latest kit, image-editing related. He’s launched, and deliver two CDs packed with the managed and built some of the UK’s best PC software. leading publications in these areas. We use boxes, tips, quick fixes, quality February already? photography, walkthroughs and diagrams 8 Dylan Channon to show you how to improve your Senior Art Editor photographic and image-editing skills Dylan is a keen amateur T he magazine world is full of questions about time: why do covers have next We have a cast-iron policy of editorial photographer and sits on the advisory independence. All our kit is reviewed as- month’s date on them? Why must I start planning for Christmas in August? Given board of Somerset College of Art sold. We discourage our journalists from and Technology. that I am writing this four days before Christmas, how do I convincingly pretend accepting gifts from advertisers. it’s the middle of January, when you’ll be reading it? We welcome your opinions on the 8 Roddy Llewellyn Working on a photography mag only makes the problem more acute, since photography magazine, ideas for articles, photography, Art Editor is all about recording what’s happened, not what’s about to happen. But somehow we thoughts and questions. Roddy studied photography at Send them in today – see the email manage. Just don’t ask the guy who edits Getup&go how he got that twitch. university and is PPA Designer of the addresses below. Which somehow brings me onto this month’s issue. Where do I start when there’s so Year for his work on Cre@te, a magazine for creative professionals. much great stuff to talk about? Canvas 6 – my word, you’re going to like that. Talk about the c program that does everything. Not only is it a fully-featured image editor, but you can create 8 Tim Daly drawings and paintings, do DTP layouts, even create graphics for the web. Incredible. We Photographer and writer hope our tutorial is enough to get you started but there’s no way we can do justice to this Departments Tim is one of the UK’s leading digital program in only four pages. photography experts. He’s written And there are the tips cards. A few of you told us that you would prefer the reviews We want your letters, ideas, numerous books on the subject and photography, articles, tips and more! his photographs have been exhibited reference cards to be more useful, so we’ve changed them. We particularly like the posing Write in today to the following areas: across Europe. card and Getup&go International, so we hope you do too. Issues with your discs Finally, back to my previous editorial: the very, very few of you gagging to know what [email protected] 8 Steve Bavister compact I’ve finally gone for – well, it’s the Olympus C-4000Z. Can’t wait! Your letters Photographer and editor [email protected] Steve is one of the UK’s best-known Photos for our galleries photographic writers, having edited [email protected] and published Practical Photography Events, ideas, places to visit in the past. He now writes for a [email protected] variety of photography mags. Camera/photo help and advice [email protected] Nick Merritt, Managing Editor 8 Barry Jackson [email protected] Aedrtitioclre.dsc/mid@eafust uforer npeutb.cloic.uakti on Digital artist and Photoshop guru Visit our website today! Barry combines his digital camera, computer and Adobe Photoshop In issue 5, we introduce a DVD option! Buy either the DVD version of the mag (all disc www.digitalcameramagazine.co.uk Customer services/subscriptions to create his own particular style of content is on a single DVD, which contains extra DVD-only software and material), or the [email protected] photo surrealism. two CD version as usual. It’s up to you… 8 Ed Davis 2 Photo retouching expert HOW WE RETOUCHED THE COVER IMAGE Ed is a commercial photographer of many years’ experience. He is a member of the National Association We almost used this image for last month’s of Photoshop Professionals. cover but decided against it because the quality wasn’t up to scratch and we didn’t 8 Aidan O’Rourke have enough time to retouch it. No such Technical expert problem this month. Although it was a Aidan is a contributor to the strong visual, it felt too cold for something Manchester Evening News. He that needs to be warm and welcoming. lectures on digital photography Our retouching guru Chris Stocker (see his around the UK. feature on page 24) took off the greenish 8 8 cast, cleaned up her eyes so they were as bright and sharp as possible, and finally ;5 ISSUE 5 ON added shadow to her nose to make it more SALE 13TH FEB defined against her skin. 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