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 [...]

Sweet Visions A common slang term for visually appealing persons, or effects used to draw mass attention is “eye candy”.  Eye Candy 6 by Alien Skin is a cool Photoshop plugin that lives up to its name.  Eye Candy 6 enables graphic artists to create stunning visual effects that  draw mass attention.

“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.

In photography, images can be well crafted photographs, or snapshots. Joshua Bradley works with Moose Peterson, an accomplished wildlife photographer. Josh is an instructor for the Digital Landscape series and a co-instructor at Wildlife Photographer’s Base Camp. Consequently, I am sure Josh’s images are not snapshots. This book, sad to say, is an out-of-focus snapshot.

Just For Digital Images Photoshop Elements 8 offers far more than expected for photo editing, yet it’s format and function keys are pretty easy to figure out. And the software offers beginners to advanced users a wide range of uses. The Photoshop Elements 8 Book for Digital Photographers by Scott Kelby and Matt Kloskowski focuses [...]