Celebrity shutterbug Gary Bernstein lends his name and vast portfolio of celeb photos to DiAmar's latest installment in its fun and entertaining interactive how-to photo series, Gary Bernstein's Secrets of Professional Photography. Like the two previous titles on exposure and composition in the Better Photography line, Secrets offers an elegantly simple interface and tons of useful tidbits for amateurs. Flash back to the pro's enviable selection of portraits, from a glam Elizabeth Taylor to a pre-Tonight Show Jay Leno, accompanied by audio and video guidance by the photographer. Bernstein's instruction tends to be simplistic (the rule for taking better photos: practice, natch), and many of the models have that cheesy '80s gloss. Still, the disc offers more than 400 images to inspire the average point-and-shoot photographer. A-


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