by Chris Foley on January 5, 2009
How do I take better photos? One question I receive frequently is how to take better photos. Now this is a question whose answer can go on for miles and miles, as one can always take better photos, but I’ve realized that most problem photos I’ve seen boil down to the same old thing: Weird [...]
by Jeff Foster on December 15, 2008
This month’s video article comes to us courtesy of Jeff Foster, who operates PixelPainter.com. Jeff has written several books on Adobe Photoshop and other visual art tools. His latest DVD on After Effects CS4 is now available from the link at the bottom. This tutorial is an advanced one, but one that we feel will [...]
by Pausha Foley on December 14, 2008
Hello again, welcome to Episode Two in the Introduction to Photoshop series. Today’s topic is Resizing Images. Let’s dive right in. You have your Photoshop installed. You’ve hooked up your scanner, you’ve taken a batch of vacation photos and gotten them all nicely digitized and … the files are just huge! What can you do? [...]
by Chris Foley on December 8, 2008
How to create a holiday gift calendar from your best photos. The holidays are here again, (as if you didn’t know!) and most of the folks I know are scaling back a little bit on the holiday spending. I happen to think that’s a pretty swell idea regardless of the current economic craziness, and so, [...]
by Chris Foley on November 7, 2008
Do you remember when CDs first came out? They were the coolest thing in the world, except for a few minor issues, like they didn’t really sound very good yet, or that they came in those ridiculous cardboard long-boxes, and only a very small selection of the music you wanted to buy was even available [...]
by Chris Foley on November 3, 2008
Written by Chris Foley So, you’ve got the digital camera, you can’t remember the last time you actually had to go and develop a roll of film! It’s so easy to take great photos now, and you take them all the time. You may have kids, you probably have a pet or two in your [...]