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        <description>COMING IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS - see how to lift pictures out of the ordinary with iPhoto, and discover more advanced photo artistry with Aperture! Whether you want to create stunning images, or just use your digital camera for life's memories, there is something here for you. Jim Everett is an Australian living in Los Angeles - a photographic artist and entertaining presenter who demystifies technology for the new user. He has been a repeat guest on the popular G4 Tech TV Canada "The Lab With Leo Laporte" show (see episodes here), and is a regular contributor to Photo Marketing Association for consumer digital imaging. Three of these podcasts have been featured on Canadian G4 Tech TV series "Torrent". Jim's photos were included in 2007 in a 4-month exhibition at LAX and Ontario International Airports in Los Angeles, "Distinctive Artists of Southern California". Check out recent photo work and artistry at http://flickr.com/photos/jimgeverett</description>
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        <itunes:summary>Discover your own digital photo artistry! In the latest episodes, I share my approach using Aperture. And if you use Photoshop Lightroom, what I show can also be applied.

Jim Everett is an Australian living in Los Angeles - a photographic artist and entertaining presenter who demystifies technology. He was a repeat guest on the G4 Tech TV Canada "The Lab With Leo Laporte" show (see episodes), is a contributor to Photo Marketing Association on digital imaging, and was featured in a PMA inflight video on American Airlines. Three podcasts featured on G4 Tech TV series "Torrent". Jim's prints were included in '07 in an exhibition at LAX and Ontario International, "Distinctive Artists of Southern California". View photo work and artistry at http://flickr.com/photos/jimgeverett</itunes:summary>
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            <title>Artistry in Aperture 2 - Vignette for effect</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Why, when and how to add drama and appeal to selected images, using Aperture's vignette tool and adjustments panel. Draws on a photo shoot I did with friends around Boulder Creek, in California's Santa Cruz Mountains. This was in 2006, after a rainy season, and the whole forest was green, wet and mossy.]]></description>
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            <title>Artistry in Aperture 1 - Introduction</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Starting this series around Aperture is a labor of love for me. In this first episode, I share what I am looking for when I photograph, how I think about my photographic art, and how Aperture supports that creativity. Lots of my images from around North America and the world are used in this episode as illustrations. Future episodes will go into more detail and depth on finding, shooting and creating individual images.]]></description>
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            <title>iPhone vers. - Improving Images in iPhoto - Crop and tune</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[*iPhone version (.m4v). This first iPhoto episode shows a couple of easy but important fine tunes - the value of cropping, and WHY giving the image some subtle enhancements can lift it out of the ordinary. These episodes are more about the WHY, WHAT and WHEN, rather than details of the HOW. There are plenty of excellent videos tutorials by other people on how to use iPhoto features. I want to share a few tips on why, what and when I enhance and adjust certain images.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[This first iPhoto episode shows a couple of easy but important fine tunes - the value of cropping, and WHY giving the image some subtle enhancements can lift it out of the ordinary. These episodes are more about the WHY, WHAT and WHEN, rather than details of the HOW. There are plenty of excellent videos tutorials by other people on how to use iPhoto features. I want to share a few tips on why, what and when I enhance and adjust certain images.]]></description>
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            <title>Southwest Mystique - slideshow with music</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Intriguing and elusive imagery from Monument Valley, Canyon de Chelly, and Goosenecks. Glides on a bed of haunting music. Please share or embed link to file but give credit and do not sell.<img src="http://jamesgordongallery.com/Media/desertsunset.jpg" alt="Southwest Mystique" />]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Images of beautiful places from the Navajo (Dineh) Nation Lands - Monument Valley, Canyon de Chelly, Painted Desert, and Sedona, Transitioned to gentle music theme.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Selected views and aspects of Italy, set to gentle music.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:14:42 -0800</pubDate>
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            <itunes:summary>Thirty photographic impressions of Italy, from two visits, over twenty years apart. The slideshow has a relaxing feel with movement in and through the slides. It was created in Fotomagico, and the music is from Smartsound. Movie size is 640x360. © 2007 James Gordon Everett</itunes:summary>
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            <description><![CDATA[Jim Everett segment on TV series "The Lab With Leo Laporte" - Episode 104]]></description>
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            <itunes:summary>How to create Hi-Def Slideshows with Music for large screens with digital images. Jim Everett was a guest on The Lab With Leo Laporte on G4 Tech TV Canada, Episode 104, November 7, 2007. Jim shows different options - showing from hard drive folder, creating a self-running slideshow for sharing, and how to add dramatic movement and music.</itunes:summary>
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            <description><![CDATA[Jim Everett segment on TV series "The Lab With Leo Laporte" - Episode 95]]></description>
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            <itunes:summary>How to shoot and create large prints with digital photography. Jim Everett was a guest on The Lab With Leo Laporte on G4 Tech TV Canada, Episode 95, October 22, 2007. Jim shows some of his larger prints, and discusses megapixels, boosting size, noise reduction, enhancing and printing options, including online services for large stretched canvas prints.</itunes:summary>
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            <itunes:summary>How to shoot and stitch panoramas with digital images. Jim Everett was a guest on The Lab With Leo Laporte on G4 Tech TV Canada, Episode 92, October 16, 2007. Jim discusses techniques for choice of subjects, shooting and printing, and shows a panorama print of Sydney Harbour.</itunes:summary>
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            <itunes:summary>In this episode, we view the panorama from Sydney Harbour Bridge Pylon, then go to a prime tourist spot to capture a different and unique view on the Sydney Opera House. But there we see the same shot that thousands of tourists take. And, we are looking right into the glare of the sun! See how we find a way to get a great shot, different from all the others, and use the glare for a better result. You can download free a beautiful screensaver of the image they captured - at Jim's Photo Gallery site. http:www.jamesgordongallery.com</itunes:summary>
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            <itunes:summary>This video has been created to help people who want to buy their first digital camera for capturing memories and everyday snaphots. It is also designed to help people buying a digital camera as a gift for that special person. The host and producer, Jim Everett at Think180, is the consumer digital imaging media contact for the Photo Marketing Association. He is a highly experienced instructor, specializing in demystifying technology and helping new users. He is also a 25 year photographer, and has exhibited in Los Angeles.</itunes:summary>
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