Our Editor comes back from the wilds of the world wide web with a suite of web based content editing tools, a site devoted to the free dissemination of images and more video tutorials than you can shake a mouse at.
... [more]Back in the 1980s, the Russian optics manufacturer Lomo PLC produced its first 35mm camera, the Lomo LC-A. It was loosely based on the Cosina CX-1 models and remained on the periphery of photography until 1991, when a group of Austrian photographers 'discovered' the camera in Prague and, according to a posting in Wikipedia, were "charmed by the unique, colorful, and sometimes blurry images that the camera produced".
... [more]Serious photographers generally shoot raw files because they offer so much more potential for image creation than JPEGs. The more serious you are about image creation, the more likely you will be to choose a 'third-party' raw file converter over the bundled software supplied with your camera. But, which application should you choose?
... [more]Our editior takes an image or two online to experiment with some of the lastest photo editing sites. ... [more]The first thing users of Camera Raw in Photoshop CS3 will notice is the re-design of the user interface and the inclusion of some new functions in the Image Controls menu on the right side of the workspace. Some of these have come from Lightroom's Develop module, which allows it to synchronise with Camera Raw. Photographers can now choose to open and edit raw, TIFF and JPEG files in either Lightroom or Camera Raw without losing settings applied in either application. This also makes all the settings provided in Camera Raw available for JPEGs and TIFF files. ... [more]The basic Raw conversion tools supported by Camera Raw in Adobe's popular Photoshop Elements image editor enable digital photographers to make a wide range of adjustments to image files. However, some functions are withheld and only made available to photographers who use the professional Photoshop CS/CS2 application. We'll devote this article to covering these additional functions. ... [more]The last few versions of Adobe's image editors, Photoshop and Photoshop Elements have come with a powerful raw file converter, Adobe Camera Raw. This application is being constantly updated to cover the latest digital cameras as they are released and, although some cameras take a while to be supported, having a capable raw file converter built into your favourite image editor is an incentive to shoot raw files whenever possible. ... [more]We're constantly on the lookout for great new digital imaging tools. Every week we spend hours searching the Internet for genuinely useful software that helps photographers to scan, organise, edit and print their pictures. This is a list of our favourites. ... [more] |