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Shooting-Digital.com is the companion site for my digital photography books including Shooting Digital: Pro Tips for Taking Great Pictures with Your Digital Camera. It is also an educational site devoted to all aspects of digital imaging. Topics include shooting, acquiring, using and sharing digital images.Buy Lightroom Adventure Today

April 4, 2008: The second Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Adventure has begun. We are in Tasmania! Click here to go the official Adventure site. Students from my MacWorld Photoshop Lightroom workshop can view their photos here. My new book, Photoshop CS3 RAW is finished and shipping. Order it here. Photoshop Lightroom Adventure: Mastering Adobe's Next-Generation Tool for Digital Photographers is also done and shipping. Order it here! Download a sample chapter explaining Lightroom's modules here. Shooting Digital, 2nd edition is out. Order it here. I really enjoyed my recently recorded conversation with Chuck Joiner, the Producer, Host of MacVoices. Here is a link to our conversation.

In addition to resources from Shooting Digital, this site contains material I've created for other projects over the years, including my books Photoshop CS2 RAW, Photoshop Elements 4 Solutions, Photoshop for the Web, and Still Images in Multimedia. The Shooting Digital book companion includes a chapter-by-chapter guide, information about contributors and reader comments.

You can also navigate directly to much of the information from Shooting Digital and my other books — including links to the software and hardware you need plus a collection of tips & tricks to help you get the most out of your digital camera — using the links on the left.

—Mikkel Aaland, San Francisco, 2008

Here is a link that will take you to the sample RAW file for my CS3 RAW book.

Here is a link to a PDF of chapter 5 from my book Photoshop CS2 RAW which goes into detail about using Photoshop's Merge to HDR feature.

For a fun interview I did with "Into Tomorrow with Dave Graveline", in connection with the 6Sight conference, click here. (Select hour 2.)

Here is a link to all my Adobe Photoshop Lightroom blogs on the O'Reilly Inside Lightroom site.

Sara Peyton posted a video clip on You Tube of my 1982 appearance on the David Letterman show. Boy did he look young! (I look the same, of course.)

Create a compelling slide show for your Apple video iPod using Photoshop Elements 4.

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