Posts Tagged ‘Dane Howard’

Improve online sales with professional product photography

Published by Crystal McCullough, executive editor | Monday, January 4th, 2010

In Product Photography for E-Commerce, designer Dane Howard shows how to take professional-looking photographs that showcase products and build buyers’ trust. Using a practical approach, Dane covers objects from collectible coins to real estate, and the lessons can be applied to just about anything that can be sold online.

When it comes time to capture images in the studio, Dane discusses how to select a camera and other equipment on any budget. He shares his favorite tips and tricks for getting the most out of camera angles, backgrounds, and scene lighting. He reviews image editing basics, such as cropping and retouching photographs, and explains how to take a presentation beyond a 360-degree view with the integration of rich media.

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Lights, camera, live action: Dane Howard on the set of his new lynda.com course

Published by Megan O. Read, author relations manager | Friday, September 4th, 2009
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A panoramic view of the live-action set.

Dane Howard has been keeping our live-action set hopping this week while he records a new training course stressing the important techniques (angles, lighting, and so on) of product photography for eCommerce.

These days everyone seems to buy and sell on ebay, make hand-made goodies for Etsy, or are just using their own personal websites and blogs to share images of things they have cooked/made/found/purchased. This new course from Dane will not only inspire, it will teach how to improve the quality and visual appeal of product shots. Our live-action set is filled with adorable crafts and goodies that Dane has been shooting this week, and we can’t WAIT for you to see the final training course as he brings these items to life!

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Dane sneaks a picture of himself on the monitor.

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Author Dane Howard tells us why he’s excited about his new Picasa 3 training

Published by Megan O. Read, author relations manager | Thursday, August 13th, 2009
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Dane Howard, author of Picasa 3 Essential Training.

New in the lynda.com library is Picasa 3 Essential Training by Dane Howard. We asked Dane why this release was special, and here’s what he had to say:

Dane: I’ve been publishing an on-going photo chronicle project with my family for about 10 years now. I’ve documented and written about a number of shooting, publishing and photograph-sharing techniques, but I’m mostly excited about how new technology like iPhone for instance, makes it so easy to record a photo, video or audio file directly and email it somewhere instantly. I’ve been slowly building up my base of social networks over the past two years and am now authoring (and distributing) the media directly into those sites. With this course, I share many of my organization, editing and distribution tips within Google’s easy to use and free application, Picasa.

Dane Howard has authored multiple lynda.com titles on digital photography. He is also a designer, dad and founder of VUVOX.

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