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 [...]

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.

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.

Here’s a press release from Adobe. Adobe has released its Photoshop Camera Raw 5.4 Release Candidate, available immediately as a free download from Adobe Labs at labs.adobe.com. The “release candidate” label indicates that this update is well tested but would benefit from additional community testing before it is distributed automatically to all customers.

Great Tool for High Dynamic Range Imaging Sometimes it takes more than one photograph to create that perfect image.  High dynamic range imaging (HDR or HDRI) has increasingly been used to improve the apparent dynamic range of digital photographs, or make the photo look closer to what you see.  And Photoshop CS4 Extended offers detailed [...]