Digital Photo Processing
Photoshop techniques and more: Learn the tricks of the trade when it comes to digital photo processing and find out what the experts think about the latest imaging tools for your PC.
Better B&W With Digital Toning Turn plain grayscale images into beautifully toned black-and-whites  Long ago in the darkroom, just when I thought I understood black-and-white printing, my teacher introduced another challenge: toning. |
RAW Workflow Basics Taking full control of your images is easy when you know how to work in RAW  Capturing digital photos in RAW mode provides a variety of benefits, such as the ability to fine-tune color temperature after capture, greater exposure latitude than JPEG capture and the opportunity to work with high-bit data. |
Content-Aware Fill Remove unwanted image elements instantly with this new feature in Photoshop CS5  We’ve all taken images that are perfect except for some unwanted element in the frame. |
Basic Tech: Get To Know Your Metadata Take better photos by learning from your image data  Every photo captured with a digital camera has metadata attached to it. Metadata literally is “data about data.” |
HDR Is The Question When (and when not) to use HDR techniques  You’re reading this article because you want to learn more about high-dynamic-range photography. Cool. HDR photography rocks. |
Haute Shot Seven Steps to transform a favorite photo into painterly art  They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. |
Digital Graduated Filters Balance extreme contrast with this digital interpretation of a classic photo filter  Back in the age of film, I carried several graduated neutral-density filters. They were both hard to pronounce and hard to use. |
Practical HDR What to do when the light is too extreme for one shot  Sooner or later, a photographer will run into the brick wall of the limitations of the digital camera sensor. Sensors today are very good, but they’re incapable of capturing the full range of tonality—from extreme shadow to bright highlights—that our eyes can see. |
Awaken The Artist Within Plug in to the creative power of plug-ins  The Beatles were wonderfully talented musicians and songwriters, creating original music that seems to never go out of style. On occasion, however, the Fab Four got a little help from their friends—friends who included music icons such as Eric Clapton and Billy Preston. Who knows, those friends may have inspired the song “With a Little Help from My Friends.” |
