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Tutorials: Instructions for Digital Camera Tasks

Learning to make the most of your digital camera can be a simple process. Digital camera tutorials will help you master a few basic digital camera functions and gain the most from your model. Just follow a few easy step-by-step instructions.

How to Clean a Camera Lens

Cleaning a camera lens requires some special care to avoid scratches and other damage to the camera lens. These tips should help you learn how to clean a camera lens properly.

Using and Holding Your DSLR Camera Properly

How you handle your DSLR can make a big difference to the quality of your imagery. Use these straight-forward tips for holding and using your DSLR camera and improve your photos dramatically.

Learn How to Use Your Camera: Connect a Camera to a Computer

Avoid camera problems by learning how to use your camera correctly from the time you take it out of the box. With these step-by-step instructions, you'll learn how to properly connect a camera to a computer to download photos.

How to Clean Your Digital Camera

Clean digital cameras work and look better. However, you need to use some care when cleaning the digital camera. The instructions included here will help you avoid mistakes.

Learn How to Use Your Camera: Initial Setup

Avoid camera problems by learning how to use your camera correctly from the time you take it out of the box. With these step-by-step instructions, you'll learn how to properly perform the initial setup procedures, such as charging the batteries for the first time and correctly inserting memory cards.

Find Camera Firmware Updates

To ensure the best performance from your digital camera, it pays to have the latest version of the camera's firmware. Camera makers release camera firmware updates occasionally, designed to fix problems or improve performance. Use these tips to find camera firmware updates.

Clean Underwater Cameras

To ensure your underwater photography equipment is ready to go for your next dive, it's very important to properly clean the camera housing after the dive. You cannot put off this type of underwater photography maintenance until a few days later, or you run the risk of ruining your photography equipment.

Great eBay Photos

Any photographer with even a little experience knows that different types of photographs require different techniques. If you’re shooting a portrait photo that you want to print at a large size, you know you’re going to need specific lighting, camera settings, and equipment versus shooting a photo for e-mail. Photos for the eBay online auction...

Learning to Use Digital Photo Frames

Digital photo frames are cool and interesting methods for displaying your photos and sharing them with others. Use these tips to learn more about making the most of your digital photo frame.

Preparing Underwater Cameras

Shooting underwater photos is a great hobby, but it requires special care with your camera and underwater housing. You don't want to make a mistake in preparation that causes a housing to fail, ruining your expensive camera. Use these tips to help you prepare for your underwater photography trip, both before and during the shoot.

Creating Actions in Photoshop

Actions are a really useful feature of Photoshop, which can save photographers a great deal of time by performing repetitive tasks. They can also be used to "batch process" a number of images at one time. This article will show you how to set up a new Action within Photoshop to resize your images to a standard size.

Learn to Organize and Archive Your Photos

This series of tutorials from Hewlett-Packard provides basic information on downloading, organizing, and archiving your digital photos.

Tutorials for Using Your Camera

Hewlett-Packard's Web site contains several video tutorials aimed at helping you learn to use your digital camera more efficiently.

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