O’Reilly Digital Media has a good tutorial that will help you take Professional Product Shots even if you’re on a tight budget.

The Cubelite by Lastolite is a portable photographic product that enables you to take professional looking product photographs. Simply place your products inside the specially designed Cubelite, point, and shoot! The kits are a bit pricey but do include the Cubelite enclosure, a reflector, and a 100W tungsten lamp with stand. It you take a lot of still photos, this product could be worth the investment.

The Digital Media Jobs Blog lists jobs – mostly in the United States – in the Digital Media Field. From the looks of their listings, things are pretty good in this field right now!

Color in Motion is an animated and interactive experience of color communication and symbolism. This engaging and interactive Flash presentation is an excellent resource for teaching the impact color has on communication.

Scott Haefner has some stunning Panoramic Kite Aerial Photographs. This is actually a great site that not only showcases his work, but has very detailed instructions on how to create your own Aerial Panoramas.

There is a great collection of Photography Composition Articles Library at PhotoInf.com. I just finished reading Learning to Photograph the Landscape by Guy Tal, parts 1 & 2 and they offer some great tips and experiences!

Andy Clarke has a second tutorial that will show you how to automate banner and button creation using Fireworks MX and XML.

Andy Clarke shows you how to create a Colour Look-Up Table from any image using Macromedia Fireworks MX. The technique involves converting image colour components into a colour palette. The resulting palette can be loaded in both Fireworks and Photoshop.

Andrei at Design by Fire has posted some wonderful black and white digital photos from his trip to the Greek isle of Santorini. The artcle titled Santorini in black & white, has a great tutorial at the end that applies the Greg Gorman Color to B&W Conversion Technique. Greg is a commercial photographer with much of his photography being found on movie posters, like The Italian Job,The Pirates of the Caribbean, and Pearl Harbor. The results of the technique are stunning. As Andre puts it, “You’ll never again use Image>Mode>Grayscale or muck with the Channel Mixer once you see this technique in action”.

Well, after one year of running Digital Media Minute, I decided it was time to ‘freshen’ up the look of the site. Some noteable changes other than the new look, is that I have moved away from the Moveable Type Blogging system to the Textpattern Publishing System (I’ll talk about my decision to switch over the next few days). The other big move was to a web standards based design. I have also cleaned up the navigation and moved the archive links from the front page to a special page reserved just for archives (which in my opinion make much more sence for looking at older content on this blog).

Anyhow it’s late and I’ve been working on this all day now, so watch over the next few days for some posts on the redesign process.

I look forward to your feedback on the design, and please let me know if you find part of the site that doesn’t work as promised.