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After a number of requests it would appear that this is something quite a few people wanted to know how to do properly, so here it is: How to remove colour from your image but keep one colour visible.
This method uses layer masks. Don’t worry - it’s very easy!
The reason we use this method is [...]

The 600D & 1100D are soon to hit the shelves!
I’ll start off by letting you know that at SAcamera we plan to order massive amounts of both the 600D and the 1100D to ensure that no one has to wait for backorders!

Starting with the Canon 600D…
The main differences between the previously released 550D and the [...]

PRESS RELEASE FROM NIKON WITH SOME EXCITING NEW CAMERAS

Nikon adds even more power to the COOLPIX performance range with two new high-end compacts.
Johannesburg, South Africa, 9 Feb 2011 - Nikon today strengthens its COOLPIX Performance range with two new models that raise the bar for high functionality in a compact body. The COOLPIX P300 is [...]

SAcamera only lists brands with high reliability, environmental resistance and quality, so the three most important specs to look at are capacity, speed and class and if it’s a compact flash card, then fourthly whether it uses UDMA.
Speed
Speed can either be expressed in a number (eg. 133x) or in transfer rate (20mb/sec). For compact and [...]

Memory Card video cameras are ultimately the future and hard-drive video cameras will disappear from production in the near future. This is because hard-drives have only had one advantage over solid state memory – cheap memory capacity. As of late 2010, a 32GB memory card suitable for full high definition costs about R2200 and capacities [...]

People choose advanced digital cameras because they offer better than compact image quality pictures and a simple one lens solution in a relatively compact body. So the two most important starting criteria are size of zoom and size of camera.
Start with the size of the zoom.
There are generally two classes of zoom.
One is [...]

Closing date: Feb 8th (at 9am), 2011, email entries to cat@sacamera.co.za
IMPORTANT
pictures will NOT be accepted unless you adhere to the competition rules.
- Pictures MAY NOT be bigger than 500kb
- Pictures MUST be named with your NAME (yourname&surname.jpg) and nothing else.
- Only JPGs as attachments in emails are accepted. Please do not send links to your [...]

I decided to try something a little unusual the other day and it came out really well so now I am sharing it with you.
It’s just for fun and takes about 15 minutes to put together on Photoshop and is actually super easy!
So here it is ~Step by Step ~ how to turn a day [...]