Your Best Shots: A Look Back at The Year's Best Reader-Submitted Photos

Your Best Shots: A Look Back at The Year's Best Reader-Submitted Photosy View this email online January 26, 2012 Breaking news from America's top photo magazines Your Best Shot Winners' Gallery The best of the best from our monthly magazine contest Every month, we ask our talented readers to share their best work. We narrow down hundreds of entries and select our favorites for inclusion in this gallery. Click through the gallery for some inspiration and then enter your own work in this month's competition. READ MORE >> Tips from a Pro: Cristina Mittermeier On Mastering Environmental Portraits "Melt into the background, stay very still, and let light unfold in front of you" UK Ruling Says Similar Composition Enough Violate Copyright Two pictures of buses on Westminster Bridge have created a legal precedent that similarity is enough to infringe copyright Camera Test: Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX1 ILC A new Lumix proves to be a small wonder Photo of the Day See the whole gallery here.  Be the first to hear about new stuff on PopPhoto.com by subscribing to our revamped RSS feed! TECH SUPPORT Exposure vs. Brightness Q. What's the difference between the exposure slider and the brightness slider in Camera RAW/Lightroom? A. When you’re converting a RAW image using Adobe Camera RAW or Lightroom, you’ll see two sliders that appear to do very similar things: Exposure and Brightness. But they actually have very different applications. Use Exposure first to set your image’s white point and to decide where to clip the highlights. (After doing that, use the Recovery slider to bring back any lost highlight detail if you need to.) Brightness is your last step. Unlike Exposure, it won’t clip your highlights. Instead, it will compress one end of the image’s histogram and expand the other to give you—depending on the direction you slide it—a brighter or dimmer overall photograph. Do you have Tech Support Question? Post it on our Facebook Page.   More from PopPhoto.com:   Change your preferences | Unsubscribe | Privacy Policy | Forward this email Add newsletter@email.popphoto.com to your address book to ensure our emails reach your inbox. Copyright © Bonnier Corporation, 460 N. Orlando Ave., Suite 200, Winter Park, FL 32789 Disclaimer: The opinions expressed here are those of the sponsors and are not an endorsement nor do they reflect the opinions of Bonnier Corporation or any of its publications.