Derek Watterson

Batch Processing The Adobe suite offers Photoshop and Fireworks for batch processing photographs. To Batch Process is just changing multiple photographs all in one sweep. You may want to quickly...

DPI (dots per inch) vs PPI (pixels per inch) DPI and PPI are the same general idea. When you compare DPI vs PPI, you learn they are both a measurement of density that...

GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) GIMP is a free alternative to using Photoshop or other more expensive photo editing tools. It's a quick 200+ MB download that's easy to install....

Photoshop Wrinkle Removal Removing wrinkles isn't going to be for all of your clients. Grandma may be offended, and grandpa certainly will be. After all, they've worked hard for those...

Red Eye in Photographs To avoid red eye it helps to know the cause. The effect is actually the light (usually from a flash built onto your camera) bouncing off...

Night Photography Tips Modern digital cameras with their lightning quick phase detection and contrast detection auto-focusing mechanisms are really good when it comes to locking focus during the day time....

Gray Card There are a lot of types of light and using the gray card can help you solve some of the problems that will arise as your camera sees...

iPod vs iPhone If you're looking to get an iPod for it's camera capabilities like the iPhone 4, you may want to think twice about it and read our iPod vs...

Depth of Field Physics We were recently asked about the inner workings or physics behind depth of field, in other words, why does a smaller aperture create more depth of field...

Aperture F Number (f-stop) We've already taught that the aperture is measured in f-stops and that the smaller the number, the bigger the opening. The reason for this is because...

CCD (Charged Coupled Device) To break it down simply,  CCD stands for Charged Coupled Device. The longer definition of CCD is that it's an electronic device that's used in image processing to store...

Lomography Lomography Photography, a genre pushed by the manufacturer of the Holga camera, Lomo, emphasizes the camera's ability to take photographs on the fly much like Kodak does. In fact,...

The Shadow Effect in Photoshop One of the essential abilities you need to have in Photoshop is the ability to take something that's 2D and make it look 3D. Adding...

Shooting in Black and White There are two reasons to shoot black and white photography. One reason is because you think it looks old fashioned and it's a cool effect....

Effects in Adobe Photoshop There is really no limit to the effects that can be done in Photoshop. The newest version of Photoshop even allows you to put your photographs...

Photoshop Tools Tutorial This Photoshop Tools tutorial is aimed at familiarizing new users of Photoshop with tool behaviors. With enough time invested you can make virtually any image you can...

Adobe Photoshop Channel Mixer The channel mixer can be accessed in Photoshop by going to Image> Adjustments> Channel Mixer. Depending on the files color profile you will either have the CMYK-...

Photoshop Layers Layers in Photoshop are literally as important as the invention of sliced bread. To get a better understanding, we'll first explain what happens in the typical photo editing...

Photo Editing (image editing) Editing your photographs or finishing your photographs has become an essential part of photography. Since the advent of digital photography, it's not only about capturing an...

Clint Clemens Photography is created in a moment and that moment often times is well thought out and anticipated before it's created. Clint Clemens has 35 years of experience as...

Alfred Eisenstaedt Alfred's famous photojournalism photography teaches the importance of having your photos be candid. Famous photojournalists have always been able to capture the essence of an event, but Alfred...

Dorothea Lange Dorothea, a famous female portrait photographer, lived during a crucial time in the world and captured the time in Famous Portrait Photographs. She is known for the photographs...

James Nachtwey James is the first of the younger Photographers featured here in this spotlight. These younger photographers have lived during a time of great evolution for the medium of...

Alfred Stieglitz Alfred was the son of German-Jewish immigrants and married the famous artist Georgia O'Keeffe. His work as a photographer showcased the Early American immigrants. One of his most...

Cindy Sherman Cindy is a famous actress and photographer who turned the camera on herself: something that had been done before her, but not in the innovative manner of Cindy...

Histograms on your digital camera or displayed on your computer shows the distribution of light in a photograph, the darks to the left and the highlights to the right,...

Shooting with Digital Cameras Many old-timers had been a strong opponent of digital cameras for their failure to provide the features serious photographers needed. Now, digital cameras do have everything...

Adjusting Shutter Speed Shutter speed goes hand in hand with the aperture setting on your camera. They both influence how much light enters the camera & therefore the lighting of...

The term ISO has been around since the early film photography days, but why is it still relevant in the digital age? ISO is one of the most important...