How to capture great photos at a musical performance.
By Fei on March 10, 2010
How to capture great photos at a musical performance.
By Jon on December 21, 2009
Make low-resolution digital photos big enough to print without getting blocky pixels.
By Jon on December 19, 2009
The holidays are a time for colorful gifts, candy canes, and holiday pictures. And with a little attention to exposure settings and shooting techniques, you can capture great holiday photos you’ll want to share.
By Fei on November 9, 2009
Worried about photo theft? See if your photos are posted on the Web.
By Jon on November 3, 2009
You can use these tips over and over again this fall, whether you’re shooting Halloween, Chanukah, Christmas, or New Year’s events.
By Jon on October 19, 2009
Everyone loves photos with a sharply defined subject and a blurry, indistinct background. This powerful photographic effect has been used for ages–and it’s shallow depth of field at work. Not sure what depth of field is all about?This week, I’ve rounded up four ways for you to take control of the depth of field in your photos.
By Jon on October 6, 2009
You’ll never be able to detect the difference between an eight-megapixel and a 12-megapixel photo when looking at the picture on a computer screen, for example, because your monitor only shows about one or two megapixels of information anyway. So unless you’re making poster-sized prints or doing a lot of deep zooming and cropping, who cares how many pixels there are?
By Jon on August 5, 2009
This week, I thought it would be fun to do it the old-fashioned way and actually “paint” with a flashlight.
By Jon on July 31, 2009
Use Adobe Photoshop Elements or another image editor to add picture frames, drop shadows, and other border effects to digital photos.
By Jon on July 29, 2009
Cool fx is a image-editing app by photo industry veterans The Tiffen Company. In its App Store description, Cool fx promises to simulate different colour and black-and-white photographic looks, diffusion, motion picture and film stocks, and optical lab processes. It certainly delivers on that promise –perhaps too much so for some users.