HDR, or High Dynamic Range photography becomes more and more popular among modern photographers. New tools and techniques are appearing and even some new camera models contain built-in HDR functionality. Indeed, with this technique it’s possible to create a quite unconventional, surreal and impressive image. However, as any other photographic genre, it takes some serious effort and experience to create really remarkable HDR images.

In this post we’ve selected some useful and interesting tutorials and how-to’s covering various aspects of HDR photography. Beginners can use this collection as their starter kit and experienced photographers can find some new gimmicks and inspiration to master their pictures.

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Who doesn’t love action? Sometimes we all need a dose of extreme to better feel the taste of life. However, the dose may differ for every person: some people take up extreme sports to shake up, while for others it’s enough to be passive watchers and feel the emotions of action from an outsider’s viewpoint. Good action photography can inspire some rapid heartbeat too.

Today we’d like to suggest you over 10 useful tutorials dedicated to action photography. Whether you are going to shoot your children at the school stadium or feel that professional sports photography is your calling, the following list might come you in handy.

So enjoy the tutorial selection, learn new techniques and then come back to ReadyPhotoSite for awesome flash photo websites to showcase your photography.

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GIMP is free and compatible with Windows, Mac and Linux, which makes this image editor very popular among photographers, designers and graphic artists. It has a wide range of features and tools and its latest versions show that it’s actually a decent alternative to Photoshop. However, this open-source software may be rather difficult to get through for those get used to Adobe Photoshop.

In this post we would like to put more light on this editor and list some interesting and effective GIMP tutorials. Most of them cover nifty photo manipulation techniques and effects you might use to give a spice to your photography portfolio or online photo gallery.

Become a Real Na’Vi Using GIMP

This is a fun guide taking you through creating a Na’Vi character from a portrait photograph.

Make your photo look like a Hollywood movie

This tutorial takes you through the process of making a photo look more dramatic, like in a movie. A cool effect to learn, indeed.

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Using achievements of modern technology photographers can literally create wonders of art. Up-to-date photographic gear enables to make pure realistic pictures, while Photoshop is a powerful tool for creating images that are out-of-the-world. Besides, it often happens that a photo itself, both digital and film, can’t fully convey the photographer’s impression of the moment he captured. This is where Photoshop can do a geat job too.

In this post we showcase 15 amazing photo manipulation tutorials for Photoshop, which you will surely appreciate if you have a certain amount of skills around this image editor. The photography effects and manipulations explained in these tutorials will, undoubtedly, become an adornment of your photography website or online photo album.

Water Effect Photo Montage

Create dynamic distortion effects

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