Inside
News on Sir Ranulph Fiennes’ latest attempt to conquer Everest, the UK’s top wedding photographer launches a new book, plus, a chance to win a roller blind featuring your favourite photo.

Colour therapy
Understanding colour can add a new level of creativity to your photographs. Helen Harris has practical tips on mastering the use of colour temperature and how to get consistently good colours.
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Olympus User meets Chris Wroblewski
Chris Wroblewski is an artist whose fascination with photographing tattoos has resulted in numerous books and the reputation of being the worlds’ foremost photographer of body art.

Around the world
Olympus user and reader Donald Froud talks us through his world cruise travel portfolio.

Innovation
Just how does Olympus make its cameras so tough? To find out, we take a peek inside the μ[mju:] 770 SW and μ[mju:] 790 SW.

Photo framing school
In the first of our two-part series on framing, Richard Lane finds out how to make the perfect window mount for our photos.

Get creative!
Give your photographs a creative boost with this tutorial from Susan Simpson and discover how using just your camera’s most basic functions can help your imagination run wild.

Guide: Olympus Master 2
An ultimate guide to using the Olympus Master 2 image editing software, supplied with Olympus digital cameras.

Up close and personal
Richard Lane demonstrates how using a camera with telescopes and spotting scopes can create stunning close up shots, and investigates how to achieve similar photos for nothing, using equipment found around the home.

Harley on safari
One reader’s diary from a two-wheeled road trip in South Africa, plus a chance to win travel books on this exciting country.

Photofacts
How does an Auto-Focus system measure distance? Technical wizard Perry Lewis has the answer.

Start ’em young
How to get your kids interested in photography.

What’s on the menu?
This issue we find out more about the exposure function menus on cameras, using the Olympus SP-570 UZ as our subject.
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Readers’ gallery
See what other readers have sent us – and be inspired to take your own masterpieces.

Product-watch
How Olympus cameras are designed with the photographer in mind, with news on the arrival of the new μ[mju:] 1060 and μ[mju:] 1040, the shock and water proof μ[mju:] 1050 SW, and big zoom SP-565 UZ.

Competition
Cheer yourself up with the winners of our photo competition with the theme ‘smile’

Letters
Olympus User readers have their say, plus details of our new competition: ‘skin’