Digital Camera World

Digital Camera is the definitive guide to digital SLR photography and will show you how to improve any digital photo. It’s packed with practical photography advice and Photoshop tutorials to help you become a better digital photographer. With buying advice to help you choose the DSLR, compact system camera, lens, tripod, printer, or camera bag that’s right for you, it covers all DSLRs including Canon EOS/Rebel and Nikon systems. The perfect title for both amateur and pro photographers

Digital Camera World

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From Sapa to Saigon • Hayley McHaffie documents her journey across Vietnam

Back on track • Lewis Cain reveals the favourite locations he can’t wait to return to

Galaxy quest • Alistair Campbell turns a simple cloud shot into a starscape

Always learning • Danny Obasa develops new photographic skills with an old camera

It’s a whole new world • Destination photographer Paul Reiffer takes his Lensball out for a spin

Five tips to shooting with your glass ball • Take into account what’s showing inside and outside your Lensball…

Put your stamp on it • Alistair Campbell uses Lightroom’s watermark feature while exporting

People power • Alistair Campbell uses his knowledge of people to capture small moments at big events

Transform your grid • Use your whole page to tell a story, says Jon Devo

Playing the field • Creative photographer Pelle Cass shoots multiple images before blending them into one chaotically perfect scene

Transport • Send us your images of planes, trains and automobiles…

The art of seeing • Concrete skies inform this month’s visual explorations with Benedict Brain

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STAY AT HOME PHOTOGRAPHY • Keep calm and camera on with our guide to projects you can complete indoors

1 Create amazing abstracts at home • Being creative at home can feel limited at times, often shooting similar set-ups over and over again. Alistair Campbell helps you get out of a creative rut!

2 Build a photography website in Drupal • Used on a local server, this open-source content management system is a great way to develop and test your ideas for a photography website

3 Present images like a professional • How to use the Image Presentation Megapack you’ll find in this issue’s Gifts folder

4 Send us your shots and star in our photo gallery • Digital Camera readers show us how they’ve been getting creative at home

Focus-stack shots for supreme sharpness • Use Affinity Photo’s Focus Merge command to combine a series of exposures into one mighty macro shot

Retouch a portrait to perfection • Use PortraitPro to apply changes in minutes that once took hours

Perfect your workflow for editing landscapes • Get to grips with the essential editing tools in Lightroom that you’ll want to use on almost every landscape shot you capture

Cut hair like a pro • Make quick, precise edits in Photoshop CC to isolate tricky hairstyles in your subject and replace the background

HOW TO CAPTURE YOUR BEST WILDLIFE PHOTOS • Want to take better pictures of wildlife both locally and further afield? Dan Mold shows you how to bag brilliant animal photos all year round

1 PHOTOGRAPH WILDLIFE IN ALL SEASONS • We reveal some accessible locations you can visit to get close up...