Category «Digital Photography Tips & Info»

Negative Space – Digital Photography Tip of the Week

I talked last week about using focus lock to ensure your subject was in focus while still maintaining control over your composition. This week I will discuss using negative space in your photographs. Negative space is the space around your subjects in your photographs. The space of nothingness in your photographs is just as important …

ACDSee update ACDSee Photo Manager

ACDSee Systems has updated their popular image viewing software. ACDSee 9 Photo Manager is now available. Watch here for a full review in the coming weeks. ACD Systems Releases ACDSee 9 Photo Manager – the Company’s Fastest and Easiest-to-use Photo Management Software To Date Faster viewing, organizing, enhancing and sharing capabilities significantly increase the speed …

Adobe releases Photoshop Elements 5 and Premiere Elements 3

I received the following press release from Adobe today. I will post a full review on the product once I receive a review copy. Adobe Takes Home Videos and Photos to New Level with Landmark Release of Photoshop Elements Plus Premiere Elements Software Bundle Integrated Photo and Video Functionality Offers More Ways to Make and …

Black and White from Colour Images – Part 4 – Digital Photography Tip of the Week

Over the past few weeks, I have discussed different methods to create black and white photographs from your colour images. I covered the three main conversion techniques, convert to grayscale, desaturate you image, and using the channel mixer. Of course, there are still even more ways to convert you image to a black and white …

PhotoRec Software for recovery of digital photos

I came across this link yesterday pointing to a free, open source software utility used for recovering photos from digital media. There is no install needed, just run the software from a directory. It is a DOS based program but still seems very easy to use. Photorec does not write anything to your digital media …

Black and White from Colour Images – Part 3 – Digital Photography Tip of the Week

Last week I continued my discussion of black and white digital photography and the topics of using grayscale and saturation to convert you colour photographs to black and white. This week I discuss using the channel mixer in order to create pleasing and dynamic monochrome photographs. Channel mixer is available in the full version of …

512MB CompactFlash card for $1.99

I don’t usually pass along “good deals”. There are lots of other sites that do that. But this one is really quite exceptional. Crucial Technology has a promotion (it ends September 1) where you can get a 512MB Compact Flash card for only $1.99 after rebate. The card is $26.99 with a $25 mail-in rebate. …

Black and White from Colour Images – Part 2 – Digital Photography Tip of the Week

Last week I began my discussion of black and white digital photography. This week I will further that discussion by talking about the first two methods of converting your digital photographs to black and white, or more specifically, monochrome. For the sake of simplicity, I will use black and white in my text, but even …