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Follow these photography tutorials to learn all about photography with WonderHowTo's collection of free how to articles, like Create an Inexpensive Photography Lightbox, Develop Your Photography Skills, and Get the Perfect Exposure Using Your SLR Digital Photography Camera's Histogram.

You'll also find several great fine art tutorials in the Fine Art category.

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How To Create an Inexpensive Photography Lightbox

Good jewelry and close-up photography requires good lighting. However, being able to light a piece properly to show the true color and ...more

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How To Develop Your Photography Skills

If you've mastered the basics of framing, shooting, and taking a photograph , try taking it further. Make it a hobby, or maybe even a career ...more

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How To Get the Perfect Exposure Using Your SLR Digital Photography Camera's Histogram

The most important tool in digital photography besides the camera - ...more

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How To Make a Pintoid Camera

One of the many things you can do with an Altoids tin is make a pinhole camera, or a "Pintoid" camera, that can capture scenery. Not only ...more

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How To Create Stereo Photographs

Do you want to make your own stereo photographs and view your memories in amazing, full-colour, 3-dimensional detail? With one or two ...more

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How To Become a Professional Photographer

Professional photography is an excellent career choice for anyone who wants to get paid for using their creative talents. It's one field ...more

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How To Blur the Background of a Photograph

How do professional photographers make those stunning candid portraits, where the subject is in perfect focus but the background is a blur ...more

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How To Brighten up Backgrounds in Flash Pictures

Ever notice how most flash pictures have dark, gloomy backgrounds? That's because the camera sets a fast shutter speed to minimize blur and ...more

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How To Build a Panoramic Tripod Head

There’s some amazing software out there for panoramic photography. Various software packages warp, stitch and blend sequences of photos so ...more

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How To Buy Lenses for Your Digital SLR

If you're one of the millions of people who have bought your first Digital SLR camera, you're probably in a quandary as to what kind of ...more

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How To Clean a Photo Portrait

Most substances can be cleaned from a photo. With these steps, you'll preserve your memories. Find out what the finish is on the photo. Some ...more

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How To Copy a Whiteboard With Your Digital Camera or Camera Phone

Ever want the notes on a whiteboard, but didn't have the time to copy ...more

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How To Copyright Photographs

You already own the copyright on anything original that you have made such as a photo. The problem arises when someone else tries to rip you ...more

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How To Create a Panoramic Photo Using Hugin

Panorama stitching is a way to emulate having a much wider field of view than your lens and camera would provide by themselves. Hugin is the ...more

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How To Create a Photo Studio

Photography is a wonderful career, and you may want to pursue it. However, in order to be a successful photographer, you'll need a ...more

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How To Create a Photo Transfer With Packaging Tape

Make a transfer of your favorite image using clear packaging tape! This is a fun, economical way to create uniquely themed paper and ...more

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How To Cut a Picture Mat

A high quality framed picture usually uses a cut with chamfer edges to give the picture a nice frame. Having a matt cut and a frame made ...more

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How To Fill in Your Tooth Gap for Photos

If you have a gap or gaps in your teeth and you don't want the gap to show up in a photo, then this simple do-it-yourself cover-up remedy ...more

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How To Make a Pop up Photograph

Making your favorite photo into a pop-up is fun and relatively easy. Pop up your family , your pet , your best friend , or you can invent ...more

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How To Make Real Wet Process Copies of Old Photographs

Because of scanners and nice printers, it's easy to make digital ...more

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How To Make Someone Look Like a Ghost in a Photograph

You know how there are all kids of fake ghost pictures on the internet ...more

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How To Photograph Fireworks

Whether you're celebrating Independence Day , Guy Fawkes Day , or Diwali , it's always tempting to take pictures of the fireworks exploding ...more

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How To Photograph Herons and Spoonbills

Herons , ibises , and spoonbills are large wading birds with long bills, which belong to the avian order Ciconiiformes . They are typically ...more

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How To Photograph the Night Sky

Surprisingly good quality, wide-angle photographs of the night sky can be made by almost anyone using readily available single lens reflex ...more

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How To Pose for Portraits

Following a few simple rules will dramatically help your poses, whether you're taking the picture or in it. Place one foot behind the other ...more

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How To Print Photographs in the Sun Using the Classic Cyanotype Process

An extract from the book Blueprint to cyanotypes describing the ...more

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How To Sepia Tone a Black and White Print

Have you ever wanted to make a picture look old-timey? Did you ever want to give the print you made a special touch? Well now you can! Find ...more

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How To Shoot Backlit Subjects Using the Flash

When shooting backlit subjects, such as a person by a window, we frequently find that either something is overexposed or underexposed. This ...more

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How To Store Photographs

Although many people have moved to using digital photos almost exclusively, many of people still have hundreds or even thousands of ...more

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How To Take a Creative Family Portrait

Ideas on how to brainstorm and execute a creative family portrait. Determine how many people will be in the photograph. Brainstorm Think of ...more

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How To Take a MySpace Picture

Right now pictures for the friend community Myspace.com are popular. They are even appropriate for IM icons. Get a Myspace/Facebook/whatever ...more

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How To Take a Picture of the Interior of a Building

An interior as a photographic subject often presents an array of light and shade contrasts (especially a church). To deal with this effect ...more

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How To Take a Picture of Your Pet

Just like photographs of your kids, you'll always want photographs of your pets to put online, to print, and to share with others. But how ...more

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How To Take an Attractive Mug Shot

If you have to take a mugshot here is how you can pull yourself together for the picture. Lighten up. If you are worried about the situation ...more

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How To Take Flattering Photos of Yourself

Do you need some nice pictures of yourself to display on livejournal or myspace? Try these tricks to create the best image to present to ...more

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How To Take Higher Quality Low Light Digital Photos

So, you have your digital camera and you don't have to worry about the prohibitive cost of paying for film while you learn it. You get a lot ...more

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How To Take Random, Fun Pictures

Have you ever wanted to take pictures but just didn't have anything good to take a picture of? That's no longer an issue. Take really close ...more

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How To Use a Canon A 1 35mm Camera

The Canon A-1 is a legendary, hugely influential and (for its time) extremely sophisticated late-70s manual focus camera that, like many ...more

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How To Use a Voigtlander Vito B 35mm Camera

The Vito B is a compact, attractive 35mm viewfinder introduced in 1954 by Voigtländer. As with many older film cameras, they can be picked ...more

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How To Use Shadows to Enhance Photos

Usually, we are striving to keep from shadows ruining the picture. With a little vision, shadows can add punch to your pictures that ...more

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Build a camera from junk

Escape the perfection and stale records of modern high-definition cameras. Anyone can point and shoot, but to artfully capture light... that ...more

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Create fake 3D objects with camera illusions

Illusion photography is all about fooling a trained eye. BrussPup's video is simple and easy to replicate. The trick uses a camera to ...more

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Fake UFO photographs

In Photoshop-speak, we call them faux-tographs. Michael Shermer presents this lesson in falsehoods as a children's craft project. Just tie ...more

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How to make alternative tripods

Where was this video when I needed it? Bag of rice. Water bottle. 1/4 bolt with #20 thread. String. Stupid me. Handheld. Videotaping club ...more

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Photograph Beams of Light

More science-geek-art: amazing photographs by Alan Jaras. Apparently the images have not been altered in any way (computer generated or ...more

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Remarkable Trompe-l'œil Turns Artist into Enemy of State

35-year-old artist from Shandong, China, Liu Bolin, has created a ...more

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Scan Your Face

Using a scanner to "take photos" is like having great studio lighting, a top of the art photocopy machine, and a high quality camera all in ...more

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Fold-It-Yourself Pinhole Camera

Easy as 1-2-3... Print, fold and start taking pictures. Free download and instructions for the Czechoslovakian designed Dirkon camera here ...more

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Gyroscope Steadies Super Duper 3-Vertical-Camera-Rig for Nat Geo

California Redwoods are some of the oldest and tallest trees on Earth ...more

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High as a Kite - Stunning Aerial Photos

Make Magazine presents UC Berkeley's professor of architecture, Cris Benton. From Make, "Cris is a leader in the aerial kite photography ...more

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$44K Street Legal Wooden SuperCar

Beautifully constructed wooden SuperCar Maniwa manufactured by Sada-Kenbi. The wooden Japanese car goes for $44,000. Wow. That's a lot for a toy. However, this baby is street legal and can go up to ...

Stomach Churning Taxidermy Fashion

Uh...yuck. Fun, but definitely yuck. Terrifying taxidermied jewelry and accessories by Reid Peppard. That's right, dead rodent cufflinks, change purses, bowties, bracelets... and a guinea pig hair ...

Eat Your Way Through the Periodic Table (Yum! Cupcakes)

Science geeks behold, the perfect dessert. The cupcake Periodic Table. Pretty simple to do-it-yourself. Start with basic cupcakes in a square mold and decorate! Previously, Knit the Periodic Table ...

Freehand Circle Drawing World Champion

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