Above is a great video I found on typography I found on YouTube to share with you to help understand the basics of typefaces known as fonts. After I took a typography class in university I feel in love with type because of the effect it has on our art pieces; selecting the right typeface can make or break the design. As an Advertisment Designer I am always playing around with typefaces. Growing up as a young photographer I always searched for free fonts to put words on my photos to make them look better; below I provide six great websites where you can download thousands of free fonts.

1. 1001 Fonts.com

They state for first time visitors, “You have come to the right place to download free fonts for both Windows and Mac. In case you are looking for professional high quality fonts, you may want to visit Linotype.com, Fonts.com, MyFonts.com or ITCFonts.com.”

2. dafont.com

I find myself using this site a lot I love the fonts they provided and you can download them for free. It’s a great site with great fonts and that’s why I am recommending it here on the DwayneTucker.com –

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3. Fontfreak.com

This site is amazing if you are really a freak for fonts! You can download up to 5,000 fonts from the site all at once or single one by one like I prefer to do. But you can chose and decided yourself. Fontfreak.com also has one of the largest and most visited freeware shareware fonts on the net. And you can also purchase over 25,000 commercial fronts from there if you wanted to.

4. AbstractFonts.com

The name stands for its self – From their site for a quick start, “Currently there are 11,453 free fonts on Abstract Fonts. You could start by browsing one of our popular free fonts sections: Random 1,000, Normal-Serif, Normal-Sans, New Fonts, Letter A, Calligraphy, Handwriting, Art Deco.”

Enjoy this site and make great use of it.

5. Smashing Magazine –

40+ Excellent Freefonts For Professional Design

Smashing Magazine is not a site just for free fonts but the made this post a while back and on it are 40+ free fonts where you can download so I thought that you might want to make use of it because it’

s also a really good post.

6. Dingbatdepot.com

If you are a fan for dingbat fonts this is the place to find them. The site says, “DingbatDepot.com is the largest source of free dingbat fonts on the internet today. All dingbat fonts on this site are free (shareware or freeware) and available for immediate download. To start downloading the free dingbat fonts, select one of the links from the left hand navigation panel: either Alphabetically or by Category.”

How can these photography tips help you?

- When adding fonts/typefaces to your photographys you learn to select wisely because the wrong font/typeface can make or break your photograph.

- You learn about six great websites to download fonts for free for you to add to your photos and designs.

Useful Links:

- 1001 Fonts.com

- dafont.com

- Fontfreak.com

- AbstractFonts.com

- Smashing Magazine –

40+ Excellent Freefonts For Professional Design

- Dingbatdepot.com

How To Better Organize My Photographs; the photograph you see above, is one from a huge collection of images I photographed at that photo shoot. I loved photographing those girls because they were fun to photograph, easy to get along with and most important they helped me to continue enjoying photography. My number one rule to enjoying photography is to have fun and create memories. In this article you will learn how organized my photographs in the past, how I organize my photographs now and I will also recommend other easy ways for you to organize your photographs.

I received an email from one of the girls in the photograph above asking me if I would be able to take some photos of her with her friends. She told me she saw some of my work from my photo gallery and loved it. I was more than happy to be their photographer. I took the images on Cabbage Beach, Paradise Island, Bahamas. I was excited about this photo shoot because it was my first one photographing a group of people. To help me organize my photographs and the entire photo shoot I sketched some images in my sketchbook of the type of images I wanted to capture. I do this for all of my photo shoots mainly so I can think about the composition of the photograph, how I want my portraits to be laid out etc.; I do it so I can go into the photo shoot extra confident on what I want my results to look like. It’s like my business plan for my photo shoots. No one is perfect unless you are a nobody . That’s why we shoot to get better and to get at the point where we can hopefully capture all great images at once; however, I am not at the level where I capture all great images and I don’t think I ever will be because I always seek room for improvement.

After the photo shoot comes a ton of images and organizing them. I still remember the old way I used to organize my photograph after photo shoots; I would upload my images to the computer and write down the default names of the images on paper and that was my way of sorting out the good fish from the bad fish. After a photo shoot I would have use that technique for a few hundred images and that was no fun. I used to look online searching for better ways to organize my photographs before I got introduced to Lightroom. Lightroom is an amazing program to edit the lighting of your photographs and it can also be used to organize your photographs. When I got Lightroom I began looking for ways to organize in there online; that’s when I began using the 5 star rating options. The 5 start rating options is okay but not as good as using the flags. It was only until a few months ago I got Scott Kelby’s Lightroom 2.0 book [here's the link to purchase the book] and read about the benefit of using flags in Lightroom. It now saves me a ton of time.

If you use windows and want to better organize your photograph there is a program named ACDSee. I recommend ACDSee to better organize your photographs. The program is only compatible with windows. In ACDSee you can use ratings like in Lightroom and you can also use a ton of other features after you are complete with your photographs. Examples of those features are:

- You can easily edit photos.
- Burn all photos to Cd or Dvd easily.
- One single or contact sheets photos can be easily printed.
- Videos or slides can easily be created.
- You have the option to easily add video and audio clips to you photographs.

To sum up, to better organize your photographs when you have a ton of images for photo shoots or just images you want to keep organized on your computer you can look into programs such as Lightroom and ACDSee.

How can these photography tips help you?

- You lean a little technique to help prepare before you photograph at your photo shoot.

- You learn how to better organize your photographs.

- You lean that there are easier ways to organize your photographs instead of writing the defaults down.

Useful Links:

- Purchase The Lightroom 2.0 Book [here's the link]

- ACDSee products free trial

- What is ACDSee?

- Buy ACDSee Pro 2.5 Photo Manager today! View, process, edit, organize, catalog, publish and archive with full RAW processing.

- Save $50 on ACDSee Photo Manager 2009, Photo Editor 2008, & FotoSlate 4 Print Studio. Great for your new computer!

The first Monday of every month I give away a free desktop background to my readers. The backgrounds are available for anyone to download; however, my subscribers receives exclusive giveaways.

(March 2009, we will be giving away point and shoot digital cameras and gift cards to our lucky subscribers; to enter all you have to do is subscribe; subscribing to this blog is free.)

About this photograph?

The photograph you see of the cruise ship I photographed in 2008 shooting with one of m friends. The reason why I want to share this image with you because it was one of my favorite practice photographs; I was in a small boat and I want quickly find a great composition for such a large subject to fit in the photograph. I hope you in Enjoy it as much as I do.

Useful Links:

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- View about composition. [here’s the link]