‘Allow Smoothing’ is off by default for the images that you use in Adobe Flash. That means those images will look jagged if they’re animated at all. It’s really simple to fix and I’m not sure why it’s not setup as default, but it’s just called Allow Smoothing. Allow Smoothing is turned on by:

Choosing the f-stop or aperture is a main determining factor about what is in focus when you photograph an image. The length of the camera lens and the distance you are from the subject also are factors. In general, when you are photographing one or two people for a portrait, you want to use an [...]

Photography Posing Tips for Photographing Men, Women, and Groups Remember the time you photographed your model? You set up the photograph, make sure your background is appropriate, the light’s great and you click the shutter. And then you look at the back of your camera and your subject looks heavy. You look at it on [...]

Shutter speed is what you want to change when you want to show movement in your picture or when you want to take an incredibly clear shot, a moment in time, without any blur of movement at all.  The slower the shutter speed is, the more movement the camera will capture. The three main adjustable [...]

We were recently asked about the inner workings or physics behind depth of field, in other words, why does a smaller aperture create more depth of field whereas a large aperture results in a smaller depth of field. For those who aren’t familiar with depth of field it’s simply the amount of “stuff” in focus [...]