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Ever wonder what exactly all those acronyms mean? You know the ones we use daily,such as PDF, GIF, JPEG and so on. Well here are a few most of us run across occasionally. * BMP – Windows Bitmap files * DNG – Digital Negative files * EPS – Encapsulated PostScript files * FAX – faxes * FPX – FlashPix files * GIF – Graphics Interchange Format files * HDR – High Dynamic Range Image files * ICNS - Apple Icon Image Files * ICO – Windows icon files * JPEG 2000 – JPEG 2000 files * JPEG – Joint Photographic Experts Group files * OpenEXR – OpenEXR files * PS – Adobe PostScript files (after an automatic conversion to PDF) * PSD – Adobe Photoshop files * PICT – QuickTime image files * PDF – Portable Document Format files * PNG – Portable Network Graphics files * PNTG – MacPaint Bitmap Graphic files * QTIF – QuickTime image files * RAD – Radience Scene Description files * RAW – Raw image files

At the point this article was created, Adobe Photoshop CS3 still cost about USD $649 per copy. I think it’s safe to say that not everyone will afford to get a copy or willing to get a copy if all one need to do is just basic image editing stuff. That’s probably one of the main reason why there’s still a fairly large crowd out there actively looking for free alternatives to Photoshop to help them in their daily basic design jobs. If you are not going into advance image editing, you should know that there’s always free softwares out there capable to perform what Photoshop can. Gimp works across several different platform (Linux, Mac, Windows, FreeBSD, Sun OpenSolaris) and is perhaps one of the best free alternatives out there so far. Gimp has a large user community, with great list of tutorials on the official sites. Download Gimp [Windows only] This photo editor runs on Windows. It has a large and growing community of users, with lots of tutorials and plugins. Download Paint [Windows on

The world of lenses can be astoundingly confusing when considering terms such as Prime, Telephoto or Zoom, Focal Length: short or long, Depth of Field, Wide Angle, Telephoto, Image Stabilization, Aperture, F-Number, Shutter Speed, and so on. After considering writing an article explaining all of this I ran across one by Cambridge Color which is simply unbeatable. If you have the time to absorb this it will refresh your understanding or give you data you have long been wishing you had. An example of the information within this article which is valuable is the following tutorial on how to estimate how exposure time is relative focal length. "A common rule of thumb for estimating how fast the exposure needs to be for a given focal length is the one over focal length rule. This states that for a 35 mm camera, the exposure time needs to be at least as fast as one over the focal length in seconds. In other words, when using a 200 mm focal length on a 35 mm camera, the exposure time ne

There are simply too many choices to make picking a new camera, an easy task. In the past we could simply walk into our local camera store, and see most all of the new cameras available. We could pick one up, take it outside with a suitable lens attached by the store rep and shoot a few shots just to get the feel. And in some cases we could come back next day to view the pictures we had taken. I'll assume many of us knew a couple of the store reps well enough to get this done. Today whenever I walk into a store the cameras are either cabled down to a security board or the rep you are asking knows more about their cell phone features than the cameras they are supposed to be selling. So where does one start? Well to make things a little easier dpreview.com gives you all of the latest new camera reviews with a few simple clicks. But here's a second choice if you want to see a website doing reviews using an Editor who has a physics major from the University of Kent. I don't kno