If you’re like me, you take a lot of nature photographs, and you know that nature doesn’t always offer blue skies with fluffy white clouds. I’ve photographed in rain, snow, strong wind, lightning storms and fog, and always get usable photographs.
Two years after Adobe gave us Photoshop CS5, Photoshop CS6 was released. It continues its run as the choice for fine-tuning photographs by professionals and serious hobbyists. In the past two years, Adobe’s other photography oriented product, Lightroom, has taken some market share from Pho...
One of the things I enjoy about publishing my daily Ask Tim Grey eNewsletter is that it often leads to something of a conversation among different readers. One question and it’s answer will trigger a question from another reader, and sometimes that question in turn leads to another quest...
The much anticipated release of Photoshop CS5 is here! I have been using both the Mac and the Windows version for a couple of months now. It is a great update in several ways and falls short of expectations in others. While the features that have been updated or changed significantly are numerou...
Terragen Classic is a free stand-alone scenery generator for non-commercial use. Terragen creates photorealistic images up to 1280 pixels wide, based on your inputs for terrain, clouds, water and atmosphere. You can choose whether to make earth bound images, or if you like, create a view from Ma...
Terragen Classic is a free stand-alone scenery generator for non-commercial use. Terragen creates photorealist images up to 1000 pixels wide, based on your inputs for terrain, clouds, water and atmosphere. You can choose whether to make earth bound images, or if you like, create a view from Mars...
Photography is in large part about exercising control (or maybe that’s just the excuse I use because I happen to be such a control freak). Since the dawn of photography there has been an effort to control the light, the subject, the print, and all other factors that influence the final pho...
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is the latest entry in the Digital Asset Management (DAM) arena, released mid-February 2007. Lightroom enters an increasingly competitive field that has had some established players, such as Extensis and iView, as well as some new players like Apple’s Aperture. Wh...
Nearly a year ago Apple announced a major new piece of software called Aperture, which was touted as being the first software devoted to photographers’ entire postproduction needs. Shortly thereafter Adobe responded with a beta version of new software called Lightroom, designed to meet sim...
I am often asked what digital gear I carry while away on a photo shoot, so here is a quick list of the essential workflow tools that I take on the road with me.
Almost two years ago, I wrote an article for Naturescapes.net on digital workflow, discussing image browsers. How things have changed! Or have they?
We have certainly witnessed a progression of new programs and updated features in existing programs. Adobe has moved from the file browser functi...
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Sharpening is a critical part of a digital workflow aimed at producing the highest quality images possible. Having a good understanding of the use of Photoshop’s Unsharp Mask filter for sharpening your images will enable you to produce the best results possible.
Screenshots used with permission from www.WnSoft.com
Almost one year ago I prepared a review of the PicturesToExe (PTE) slide show program version 4.14. Since that time I have received feedback from photographers who read the review, purchased the program, and enjoyed using it to prepare sli...
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Several times a week I receive panic emails from digital photographers stating that the photos they took are not readable on their flash card. Either they accidentally formatted a card before downloading pictures from it, removed the card before the camera was done writing, the flash card encoun...
Screenshots used with permission. When I talk to photographers who have made the switch to digital SLRs, a common theme revolves around the question of what to do with the images after the shoot. “I’m a photographer; I don’t want to do the editing afterwards!” But it...
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