An inexperienced photographer might find it very difficult to properly direct a model for great poses that will enhance the model’s presentation, showing her best face and figure, and most importantly convey the photographer’s message. Here you can find some resources which can be really handy when you’re shooting in a studio/outdoor with your models.

The first one is Photography Posing Secrets ebook by Malcolm Boone. The ebook is a newly released practical resource for creative posing that will quickly show you clear and comprehensive practical steps to produce and communicate a pose for any situation. Read this if you want to improve your ability to produce and communicate posing ideas that will lift your portraiture to a higher standard.

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Issuu has How to Cheat in Photoshop CS3 ebook available on their site. This book is not just about Photoshop, it also has some tricks and little gems in regards to composition and to some extent building photographic elements from scratch. The book has 15 chapters easy to understand and fun-to-read info detailed with graphics and step by step instructions.

Tim Jackson has a focus test chart available for download;

Download Focus Test Chart (PDF)

“The issue is that of focus. Some folks have found that, particularly when using the kit lens, some of their images are not correctly focused. This problem manifests primarily when shooting close-ups at wide apertures. After doing lots of research and testing, I produced a simple and effective test that quickly shows up these focus problems if they exist on your camera.”

Originally Posted: 04 October’05

Name: Cool EasyCard For Valentine’s Day
Description: Create Cool personalized printable valentine’s Card with your own picture and words, with just a few clicks. We provide pretty template frames, you just need to place the picture with your own photo, place the words with your own. You can save the card to bitmap or jpeg image, or just print. Preview version only provide a few templates, while full version will provide more.
License: Free to try; $5.00 to buy
File Size: 3.31MB
Requirements: Windows 2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista

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Adobe has made the Photoshop CS4 available for you to try for 30-days. Adobe Photoshop CS4 software provides improved access to its unrivaled power through a more intuitive user experience, greater editing freedom, and significant productivity enhancements.

Download Adobe Photoshop CS4 Trial Version

New features include Adjustments panel, Auto-blending of images, Masks panel, Improved Adobe Photoshop Lightroom workflow, Content-Aware Scaling, Extended depth of field, Auto-alignment of layers, and Better raw image processing.