Wacom Intuos4 Rocks
Wacom recently released their new line of Intuos4 graphics tablets. After getting one to try out, I must say, I like it. A lot....
View ArticleTIFF Byte Order: Mac or PC?
When saving an image as a TIFF file in Photoshop, you have to pick whether you want to use IBM PC or Macintosh byte order. While you might think your choice would depend on which platform you use, such...
View ArticleControlling Photoshop History
These days, almost all applications include some form of support for basic Undo and Redo operations. Some provide more than others, but it's almost expected to have at least something. With its History...
View ArticleA SureFire Way to Save on CR123A Batteries
There once was a time that, if a camera or flash used batteries at all, it was powered by one or more trusty 1.5 volt AA (LR6 in some parts of the world) cells. More and more though, equipment...
View ArticleThe Filter Trap
In the modern world of photography, there are two kinds of filters. One kind goes in front of a camera lens and is designed to improve the appearance of the images you shoot with it. There are also...
View ArticleA Few Thoughts on Tripod Bags
Owning a good quality tripod doesn't come cheap. But if you want to get the best images you can, it's pretty much a given that you need one. So the question I want to explore today is, what about...
View ArticleSkreenz – For When You Don’t Want to be Bugged While Camping Anymore
This isn't a photography tip per se, but I'm a photographer and was quite pleased to learn about this myself recently and thought I'd share it. Finally, a way to deal with mosquitoes and bugs when car...
View ArticleWhat Kind of Camera Bag Works Best?
Last week I wrote about tripod bags and have since been asked about camera bags. This is a subject I haven't written much about before, but let's take it head on this week....
View ArticleReplacement Lens Feet
Even though I don't use any products actually made by Arca-Swiss, I'm a dedicated user of products compatible with the Arca-Swiss dovetail system. I'm guessing many of you are too. Adding a mounting...
View ArticleThe Intimate Landscape
Somewhere between the grand vista and panorama on the one hand, and the realm of macro and close-up imagery on the other, lies the intimate landscape....
View ArticleGetting a Nikon Scanner to Run on 64-bit Vista
Not everything plays nice with Microsoft Vista, especially the 64-bit version. That much is a given. But sometimes clever people come up with ways to get things to work anyway. That's what this week's...
View ArticlePhotoshop CS4 64-bit Versus 32-bit
Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Windows comes as both a traditional 32-bit application and a 64-bit version for systems with the processor and operating system to run 64-bits. I recently upgraded to a Quad...
View ArticleCamera Raw Dust Spot Removal
If you had dust spots, one of the first things you used to have to do is use the Spot Healing brush to get rid of them. But if you haven't tried it yet, getting rid of dust spots on an image has gotten...
View ArticleDigital Editing: Where Do You Draw The Line?
From time to time the question comes up of whether or not the use of Photoshop and similar image editing programs means that digital photography isn't "real" photography anymore. While Photoshop is a...
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