Digital Noise Tamed Digital noise is inherent in digital images, much like grain is inherent in film images. Sometimes, digital noise can enhance the mood of the image, and helps set the stage for the story behind the image. More often, however, noise distracts the viewer from the subject and the story. If the noise [...]

Eye Catching Color Color. The eye is naturally attracted to color, bright reds, vivid greens. Stories have been written about color. Songs have even been sung about color. Remember the Simon & Garfunkel song Kodachrome? Color control is vital to making a subject pop. Nik Software provides a powerful color control solution with Viveza. Nik [...]

The Devil’s in the Details The Photoshop CS3/CS4 WOW Book provides an good learning platform for Photoshop users.  Each chapter is broken into a number of sections enabling the reader to learn about and practice a particular skill or technique.

Excellent Learning Richard Harrington, in Understanding Adobe Photoshop CS4,  provides an excellent learning platform for beginner and intermediate Photoshop users.  He provides comprehensive, yet engaging explanations.

“Eye Burning” Functions in CS5 Adobe just released Creative Suite 5, with this software’s focus on improving the connection to creative business design and solving the challenges of endwork results. CS5 combines and enhances content creation, analysis, and optimized delivery of the end result.

Powerful Tool Layers are one of Photoshop’s most powerful tools.  Have you played with layers, but not yet mastered a consistent workflow that extracts the most from this powerful tool?  This book provides the tools, tips and techniques to master layers.