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I have been a photographer for many years and have done courses and developed my own photos. Now though, I only use a digital camera a Canon Power Shot S30 in fact. I bought a digital camera very early on and paid a fortune at the time. Since then, digital cameras have come down in price and my 3.2 mega pixel capacity is not as I'd like it. Nevertheless, I can still take quite large photos of excellent quality with the camera set on 'large' resolution.

When I was travelling last I lost my manual, but on searching for one on the Internet found a copy. I am excited in being able to go back to taking photos on the manual setting, using the aperture as is necessary and setting a white balance. Focusing on what I want to stand out has improved dramatically.

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Now, to get your photos ready for stock photo sites, for which you will get some money if your photo is bought, you will really need Photo Shop. I know it is expensive but it is the best. It has every feature you would want for web design, brochures, leaflets and any thing else that these stock photo sites like. You can look at my free editor page but none of them do the job that Photo Shop does and if you are serious about photography you need it.

There are heaps of Photo Shop tutorials free on the Internet, but to have them all together and to be able to look up an index, a book still serves the best function. PhotoShop for Windows & Macintosh is one of them.

Uploading to stock photo sites.

I found Creatingonline first. My photos are displayed here. I also upload to Big Stock Photo, stock-xchng and dreamstime

I am in the process of uploading to several other sites.

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Dreamstime

You can use these stock photos at Cafe Press. Make a calendar, or any product and sell it. Or use them for brochures, book covers, web page backgrounds.

Should you want to set up your own stock photo site you can use the software package PhotoStore. PhotoStore is a professional, user friendly, web based software package that enables you to publish and sell your photographs, images, artwork, prints and products online. PhotoStore was created specifically for photographers to easily sell their photos online. With its advanced features it can also be used to run stock photo type sites.

For the personal web sites set up to share photos between friends Google's Picasa now has a web album

You can see mine at Picasa web albums

First though you have to download Picasa

I have set up a shop also called
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