Photoshop, Art and Photography News and Articles

Importance of Calibration - Perfect from Image to Print - Believe it or not, many artists and photographers are not aware of the importance of calibrating their monitors before working with images.

Why Do My Prints Appear Blurry or Out of Focus? - The problem is not with the printers. Printers do not have focus dials as cameras do. They simply print the digital image sent to them.

Intro to Composition: Candid Photography - Most non-professionals tend to shoot from where they are standing, without taking into mind the composition of their subject matter in the photo.

Hack a Nintendo DS to Make an Awesome Digital Sketchbook - howto.wired.com

When coupled with the paint application Colors, the Nintendo DS Lite can be an excellent portable digital painting tool.

Presidential candidates: How will they look in four years? - popphoto.com

To see how the current candidates would fare after a term in the Oval Office, we put them through the Pop Photo Time Machine. See our Photoshopped before and afters of Hillary Clinton, John McCain, and Barack Obama.

Free version of Photoshop on the web - Adobe

Adobe announced the launch of Photoshop Express, a free Beta online version of the popular photoediting software.

Learn non-destructive editing techniques - Corrie Haffly

“Non-destructive editing techniques” describe ways to modify and adjust layers without actually changing the pixel content of the layer.

True or false? Identifying Manipulated Images - Erica Naone

New tools that analyze the lighting in images help spot digital tampering on photos.

How Cool is Barack Obama? (Photo Essay) - by Lerone D. Wilson

As if Sen. Barack Obama needs help with his rockstar image, a Reuters photographer captured the senator in an unparalleled moment of coolness, which hasn’t gone unnoticed among Photoshop users across the internet.

Make mine raw: Improving quality and extending your image legacy - John Nate

Rather than allowing the camera software to decide on the color conversion and file format, it could make more sense to work directly with the raw files.

Photographer admits to using Photoshop to fake award winning photo

Award winning photo showing dozens of antelope in peaceful coexistence with a noisy high speed train rushing across the Tibetan landscape has been exposed as a Photoshop doctored image.

Free Download: Photoshop Brushes Series 33 - Dave Nagel

A new collection of 20 chalk, charcoal and graphite brushes for Photoshop designed specifically for simulating the process of sketching with dry media.

HDR in the Future of Photoshop Lightroom - Scott Gilbertson

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom may add support for high dynamic range photos and panorama stitching to the list of tools in the RAW image editing suite.

Strange pictures done in Photoshop - Metacafe

Movie shows how Photoshop is used creatively to manipulate photos into surrealistic pictures.

Inkjet Printing 2.0 - by Debbie Grossman

Get your photos off the screen and onto the wall. Just follow these seven simple steps to perfect prints.

Q & A: Scott Kelby, the Sultan of Shutter

Scott Kelby, publisher of Photoshop User magazine and author of The Digital Photography Book, discusses the finer points of digital photography.

Is Photography Dead? - by Peter Plagens

The next great photographers—if there are to be any—will have to find a way to reclaim photography's special link to reality. And they'll have to do it in a brand-new way.

Photoshop Foundation - The Difference between Vector and Bitmap Graphics - Jonny Allbut

Although Photoshop primarily is a bitmap image editor, it is capable of handling vector graphics to a certain extent.

Free Photoshop Alternatives - Molly Wood, CNET TV Insider Secrets Executive Editor

Video presentation of open source photo editing alternatives to Photoshop.

Adobe Photoshop v Adobe Illustrator - Kevin M. Sugrue

What are the differences between adobe photoshop and adobe illustrator? Produced by the same company, there are some that say the difference between the two programs is small. In actuality, adobe illustrator ...

What is a Giclee - David Waddleton

In the French dictionary a giclee (zhee-CLAY) will be defined as meaning “to spray or squirt.” However others might say "giclee" doesn't mean "to spray,” that "Giclee" isn't an infinitive and that it is the feminine of a...

Canvas Printing - Its Methods and Application - Carla San Gaspar

People are often known in preserving the artworks or portraits that had been significant to them - photographic images of happy moments, fascinating places or any themes that they find interesting and...

Review on the Book "Photoshop for Right-Brainers: The Art of Photo Manipulation" by Al Ward - Paul Hood

Al Ward's book offers the reader an innovative and custom made guide in manipulating photos suited to your taste. I find this interesting as it gives me...

Using the Brush Tool in image restoration whilst not losing photographic grain - James Middleton

Most Adobe Photoshop users, from novice to pro, will recoil at the thought of using the Brush Tool in restoring or manipulating any portion of a photographic....

Constructing a painting from your photographs - Kenney Mencher

If you use photographs as the main form of reference material for your paintings, you are in good company. Just to name a few artists who are known for this: Gustave Caillebotte, Edgar Degas, and more recently Eric Fischl, Gerhard...

Photography in the Raw - Kimberle Balsman

Looking to purchase a new digital camera? Not completely satisfied with the image quality of most consumer models? Now the awesome power of the RAW image format is readily available for even casual photographers.