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Learn post-processing By learning post-processing, even simple ones such as tweaking contrast, saturation, and cropping, you can greatly enhance your photos. I used to feel that editing of photos is a form of cheating, altering it from the original and misrepresenting the 'real picture' somehow. However as I continued on my photography journey, I realised that the moment I pressed the shutter button, I've already altered the photo. "How is that so?" one may ask. By simply choosing what goes into the photo and what has been left out, the photographer has already altered the 'facts' by letting you see only what he/she intended you to see. Ruben Salvadori has an interesting project, Photojournalism Behind the Scenes , which demonstrates how photojournalists affects the environment they are documenting. In addition to choosing what the viewer sees, your camera of choice has also done some processing of the picture for you. Try taking the same pictu...

With Chrome getting more bloated and freezing/crashing frequently on both my Vista and Win 7 laptops, I figured I'll try out a new browser and picked Opera . Thus far it's been a real breeze to use, which is why it surprises me how few sites actually supports it. When logging in to My Oracle Support on Opera, you'll be presented with this message: You are using an unsupported browser. The supported browsers are Internet Explorer 7 and higher, Firefox 2.0.0.2 and higher, Safari 3.1.2 and higher, and Google Chrome 1.0 or higher. Shame on you Oracle for being a technology leader and yet not making your site supported for the fourth best browser  (referenced 26 Jan 2013). Plus whatever happened to the interoperability of the much lauded HTML 5? Why do we still need to design for specific, supported browsers? Anyways for those who would like to try and use Opera for these sites which don't support it (HP support is another), you may refer to the fix mentioned here: http://my...