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In photography, there is always something new to learn. As digital-imaging technology becomes ever more powerful and versatile, you can constantly discover new ways to do your work better and faster. Fortunately, new educational resources appear on the web every week, making it easier for you to learn what you need without spending a lot of time or money.
One educational site you may not have heard of yet is ePhotoPros.com, a new online photography community formed by photographer Ron Dyar of Fromex Digital Pro Lab in San Diego. Fromex specializes in producing small-format luster prints on Fuji Professional Super Type PD Paper, primarily for portrait and wedding photographers.
The ePhotoPros.com site contains more than 270 helpful video tutorials on widely used products such as Adobe Photoshop CS3, Photoshop CS4, and Lightroom 2 as well as more specialized software such as Express Digital Darkroom and Lumapix FotoFusion. Express Digital Darkroom offers an image-processing workflow with the flexibility to print some of your images in-house while sending higher volume orders to a lab. LumaPix FotoFusion multi-image layout software is a good choice for photographers who create their own albums. The ePhotoPros.com site even includes tutorials on GIMP, a free photo-retouching and image composition program that is a surprisingly robust alternative to Photoshop.
One reason Dyar started ePhotoPros.com was to develop an easy-to-access archive of answers to the questions that his lab’s customers asked repeatedly. Along with the video tutorials, the site offers educational articles and access to 30-minute to 2-hour one-on-one consultations on Photoshop CS3, CS4, Darkroom, FTP, RAW workflow, and Web/HTML. Over the next few months, Dyar plans to beef up the social-networking features that will enable members of the community to share ideas and tips.
LexJet will be contributing educational articles to ePhotoPros.com that will help teach wedding and portrait photographers how to use in-studio wide-format inkjet printers to create a wide range of new products on materials other than luster photo paper.