Far easier to use than the complicated layers and masking implemented by Photoshop and other workhorse imaging applications, Nik Software’s U Point technology for highly controlled and efficient selective image editing is exceedingly simple to use and yet totally powerful in capabilities.
Distortion is a bummer. When using wide-angle lenses, it’s a big bummer because it can skew a scene in very unnatural, unwanted ways.
Let’s acknowledge the elephant in the room right away: Sensors don’t automatically give you the optimum sharpness from your lens, regardless of the lens quality.
In the days of film, we worried about grain, and higher ISO speeds resulted in larger, more pronounced grain.
The holidays are here, and no matter what you celebrate, you’re sure to enjoy photographing holiday lighting displays.
Long ago in the darkroom, just when I thought I understood black-and-white printing, my teacher introduced another challenge: toning.
A common misunderstanding about image sharpening is that it can save a blurry or out-of-focus image.
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.
We’ve all taken images that are perfect except for some unwanted element in the frame.
Every photo captured with a digital camera has metadata attached to it. Metadata literally is “data about data.”
