So you were blessed this holiday season with a new digital camera, but you don’t have any idea how to make it work? Local camera-specific instructional classes and web forums have got you covered no matter what brand you are packing.

Sometimes you take a picture and you know in your mind that it could have been different or better if you had taken it on a different day or at a different time. Lighting can play a huge role in what your picture conveys. And this is where “Creative Photoshop Lighting Techniques” comes [...]

Selective coloring…you know the process of taking a B&W image and only showing something in a vibrant color in the photo. Yeah, looks really cool but how the heck do you do it?
Get ready because it’s actually very easy and one of the first photo editing (processing) tips that was passed on to me.
First find [...]

Still stressing about what to get for that budding photographer in your life? Give the gift of knowledge by surprising them with a gift certificate for a photography class. Local schools are offering exciting workshops that will inspire your photographic friends for months or even years to come. Fess up — you know you can’t [...]

“Understanding Exposure” takes the technical details of photography (which can be intimidating) and lays them out in a manner that makes them easy to understand and retain. This book should be considered a must read for anyone who considers themselves a photography novice or intermediate and wants to get more out of their camera. This book is not camera specific, and is quite useful for SLR and point and shoot owners alike.

So you are the new kid on the block, the newest wet behind the viewfinder photographer looking to score your first paying gig. Of course there is always someone out there who wants their picture taken and who will pay you some cash to do it, but where oh where do you find them.
For many [...]

It can be difficult to upload, organize, describe and create tags for hundreds of digital photos at one time. But the new revamped Flickr Uploadr 3.0 introduced last week made this an easy process.
The first time Uploadr is started, users will be asked to authorize it with Flickr, but you don’t have to do this now. Version [...]

For all the fans of Flickr who happen to have a Pro account it’s time to get excited! Just announced was the new Flickr Stats for Pro users to get a nice visual of the stats for each photo.
You are presented with a nice graph for each photo with info on where traffic is coming [...]

OK so you took some pictures and they look great right? Right, for the most part.
Your camera does its best to figure out the lightness and color balance needed but it isn’t always perfect. Thats where Photoshop comes in.
OK, start by opening your image into Photoshop.

Photography forums are littered with posts from rookies asking about filters and other effects. Almost immediately someone will post “that’s easy to do in Photoshop,” without a link or any other explanation. For a Photoshop AND photography rookie like myself, that makes it doubly frustrating. Luckily, help is just one book away.
“The Photoshop Show Starring [...]