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While taking classes at Beverly Hills Adult School students can get a (huge) discount on Adobe Photoshop at the: Academic Superstore. Or try before you buy, you can download any Adobe product for a free 30 day trial: Adobe free trials

Check out the links I've posted in the box on the right for interesting tips & techniques.

Have you ever tried the panorama feature in Photoshop? You can easily stitch photos together, it's an automated feature. Here's a tutorial: Panaoramas in a stitch

One book I highly recommend for Photoshoppers and that's Scott Kelby's: Photoshop CS3 Book for Digital Photographers  And now that Photoshop CS4 is out, Kelby wrote a book for the newest version of PS.

For digital photogs I just finished reading The Digital Photography Companion by Derrick Story. It's an excellent book, lots of information for digital camera users. It's one book that I read from cover to cover.

Students are elegible for discounts when purchasing photoshop books at the publishers listed below. For an interesting effect try Photomatix - click on the link below for a free trial download and info on using the program for combining your digital negs for amazing effects. Photoshop students are elegible for a discount on this software too.

For some really interesting effects, Photomatix software a try.  It's used for combining HDR images or tone-mapping, have one example on my portfolio page, the street lamp exhibit.

If you've ever had problems with digital noise, it looks just like film grain, and its especially apparent in low light situations when you're using a high ISO setting, 400 or higher. Noise Ninga from PictureCode is designed especially for reducing that noise. I didn't really even read the directions and I got it to work, so thought it was pretty easy to figure out & use. 

If you're interested in more info about the products & discounts, the graphics below are all clickable links:
                                                                                      Photoshop users group, monthly meetings & PS tutorials, free