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Better digital photos

Digital Living Built-in camera flashes are convenient, but they can produce deadly results -- from red-eye to a nuclear-looking, unnatural glow -- when used to take pictures of people in low-light situations, such as evening parties.

3 August 2006, 15:09

It doesn't have to cost a bomb to fix your pics

Digital Living In addition, some can perform specific tasks, such as eliminating red-eye, and other snappy functions, such as creating thumbnail pages and screensavers. In addition to what I'll call the must-have features, such as red-eye removal, resizing...

Tags: plug ins, enhance, thumbnail, eye

9 May 2005, 15:12

How can I take pictures without flash?

Digital Living The first thing you should do is check whether your camera has a red-eye reduction mode for the flash. When you use the flash in red-eye reduction mode, the camera strobes the flash a few times before firing it properly and taking the picture.

13 December 2006, 11:58

How to perfect your pictures

Digital Living In addition to the standard Photoshop editing tools, Elements 3.0 also offers SmartFix options with before and after comparisons for operations such as red-eye removal, removing colour casts, and adjusting brightness.

9 May 2005, 14:51

Can I afford a progressive scan camcorder?

Digital Living This means that you are only seeing half the image, called a field, at any one time, or at least you would if your eye was fast enough to see them. The illusion of a complete picture is created by the speed of the fields flashing across the screen...

Tags: model, eye, fields, lines

12 December 2007, 9:23

Choose the right gear for high definition

Digital Living A colour wheel then rotates to match the colours with the corresponding action of the mirror, at a rate quick enough to be indistinguishable to the eye -- although some people can see a 'rainbow' effect as a result of this process.

4 June 2007, 14:46

Monitor your home with a Wi-Fi Webcam

Digital Living Keep an eye on a remote location from any Windows PC on the Internet with this easy-to-use networked camera. Network Web cameras that include a built-in Web server are no longer exclusively the playthings of the IT set.

9 May 2005, 16:55

Apple MacBook Pro

Digital Living It's said to be four to five times faster than the PowerBook G4, so is it the Apple of your eye, or rotten to the Core Duo? New name, new chip: the MacBook Pro is the first Apple laptop powered by an Intel processor.

25 January 2006, 7:10

Apple Newton vs Samsung Q1 UMPC

Digital Living The Apple Newton was spawned in 1993, years before the Palm Pilot was a twinkle in Palm's eye. We've all dreamed of owning a portable device that can organise, entertain and enrich our lives. Over the years, we've seen dozens of contenders for this...

27 July 2006, 16:39

How do I set up my TV properly?

Digital Living Essentially, the TVs are set up to attract your eye and then make you part with your cash. I've noticed that the picture on my new LCD TV looked significantly better in the shop than it does now I've brought it home.

22 August 2007, 16:32

Do I need a TV with 1080i or 1080p?

Digital Living This happens at a rate so fast your eye can't tell, so you see one solid image. I want to buy a new TV and I've heard a lot about 1080i and 1080p -- which sort of screen should I go for? There's a lot of confusion about 1080i and 1080p.

6 June 2007, 11:14

Extend your mobile phone's battery life

Digital Living Lower your screen's brightnessAnother feature that you should keep an eye on is your screen's brightness. Nowadays phones have a tonne of functions and all of them drain battery power, so if you don't need something, switch it off.

14 June 2006, 14:50

BT has seen the future, and it's white

Digital Living Although nothing like as easy on the eye as Apple's white, UFO-shaped AirPort Wi-Fi hub, it's a good deal more house-trained than the average Belkin router. It's been an important week for BT. The company has launched its biggest marketing campaign...

26 June 2006, 16:33

Your PC needs a firewall

Digital Living Like ZoneAlarm and Kerio, this app lets you designate safe apps and keeps a close eye on what's trying to get through. The most important criterion for picking an antivirus program is whether the company is alive and well and provides important and...

12 July 2005, 13:24

Camera phones

Digital Living In detecting details, film cameras and digital cameras are more limited than the human eye, and camera phones, in turn, are more limited than both film and digital cameras. While camera phones are now pretty ubiquitous, sharing the digital photos...

11 May 2005, 11:43