Wilder Shore, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Read more about this image. OK, let's start with two questions. Would you think the photo above was taken into almost complete night? And why would someone go to a great deal of trouble to hike out into the wilds somewhere, mount their camera on a tripod, and take...

This new feature in Photoshop CS3 allows you to automatically align multiple images captured from a single vantage point, even if you shot them without a tripod. For instance, let's say we have these pictures of me and my wife, Elizabeth, from the balcony of our stateroom on the Photoshop Fling cruise, a week-long Geek Cruises event held every February....

Get the most out of your Sony Alpha DSLR A100 with this essential manual designed for shooters of every skill level. Sony Alpha DSLR A100: A Better Manual is a PDF so you can read it on your computer or PDA. It is laid out on an 8.5 x 11-inch "page" so if you want to print it, you won't...

Last week, I showed you how to use Smart Filters, a new feature in Photoshop CS3, to apply non-destructive filter effects to an image. Well, just as you can use layer masks with adjustment layers, you can apply masks to your smart filter effects. I'll show you what I mean as we apply a Radial Blur effect to last...

Last week, I talked about how long I'd been waiting the arrival of Smart Filters. In this installment of dekeBytes, I'll give you a sense for how this new feature in Photoshop CS3 works by applying some detail sharpening and high-key softening to an image. Along the way, you'll learn the basics, including how to apply a Smart Filter,...

In 2002, I wrote a preview of Adobe Photoshop 7 for a popular computer magazine. Although I praised the program for its file browser, expanded Brushes palette, and healing tools, I lamented its lack of ambition in the parametric department. After four back-to-back upgrades in which Photoshop blazed new trails in non-destructive image editing, Version 7 abruptly dropped the ball...

Carol Cali--a photography teacher at The Meadows School in Las Vegas, a private college preparatory school--snapped this photo of her students. We donated the photography books to her school at the end of PMA 07 International Convention and Trade Show in March. "I teach B&W Photography with a wet lab, digital photography using Photoshop on PC computers, and yearbook photography...

One of the more surprising new features of Photoshop CS3 is the Brightness/Contrast command, which has gone from being one of the worst features to one that is actually quite useful. I'll show you what I mean with this example. Let's start with an image that's a little bit washed out. Image by David Politi courtesy of iStockphoto Notice how...

The folks over at CameraArts magazine run a cool weekly photo contest. Readers vote the winners in--American Idol style. Editor and publisher Tim Anderson explains: The contest is designed to be fun, easy to enter, and to enable photographers much needed exposure, through the aid of such services as Blogger and Flickr. Out of the entries we receive, five finalists...

Bridge CS3 (already in dot-release, 2.1, as I write this) is the new version of the Adobe Bridge that ships with Photoshop CS3, the other individual CS3 applications, and the six, count them six, skews of Creative Suite 3. While I imagine lots of folks will be confused by Adobe's marketing strategy, the Bridge itself is as much of an...