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.

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.

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.