Photographic backgrounds don’t have to be expensive to be great. As most things in photography, the simpler the better as you always want to keep the attention on your subject. I have two favorite and often used backgrounds. The First are a pair of black bed sheets that I soaked in vinegar to set the [...]

Selective Color, White Vignettes, and Oval Frames- OH MY! The good news is that there are a lot of great programs out there that make digital art accessible to everyone, from the free programs like Picnik to the affordable programs such as Photoshop Elements. The bad news is that I’ve been tempted lately to post [...]

“It’s not the camera, it’s the photographer” That quote is heard in photography circles about as often as the big hand goes around the face of a clock. Every photographer that has any confidence in their skill will tell you that they can capture a great images with any decent camera. Now it is time [...]

The Adobe suite offers Photoshop and Fireworks for batch processing photographs. To Batch Process is just to change multiple photographs all in one sweep. You may want to quickly re-size photographs to be easily put on the web, or just doing a quick crop so that all your photographs have the same proportions. Chances are [...]

DPI and PPI are the same general idea. They are both a measurement of density that reflect the quality at which an image is being displayed. Both DPI and PPI are based on the concept that you can take a whole bunch of small pieces to render a much more complicated image. PPI is typically [...]