Category: Use your D-SLR

  • Free download of Photoshop

    Free download of Photoshop

    This is right that many people feel obliged to use Photoshop to manage their photo images. But in most cases, nearly any other tool would be as good. I think first about the excellent IrfanView which is free and does a lot of digital photo management. But it is also true that if you really…

  • Paris PhotoWalk

    OK! I don’t really know what it will be but one of the web sites I regularly check (Photoshop Insider) announced a bizarre event: WorldWide PhotoWalk. The idea is just to have photographers going to a place to walk together in a town they know in order to shoot a few pictures and… share. This…

  • Flash photography

    Flash photography

    Two articles written exactly for photographers willing to improve their flash expertise. I found them on the Internet and wanted to share them with you, photo friends. Natural looking flash. Right! It may be very difficult to get a nice looking lighting without burning everything with lights that cry “flash”. White Seamless Tutorial. A 5-part…

  • 8 tips for sharp photos

    What I do (or should be doing, since -like everybody else- I can’t stick to my good resolutions) in order to obtain beautifully detailled photographs. It’s even more important if you want to make them ready for printing in large size (on your brand new A3 inkjet printer or poster-size at a print shop). A…

  • A few LifeHacker posts about Photoshop

    I have collected a few posts at LifeHacker that I wanted to share with you because they are concentrating on some easy and powerful techniques to be used with Photoshop. Create Eye Catching Color Effects on Black-and-White Photos Create Photorealistic Reflections in Photoshop Reduce Redundancy by Creating Photoshop Actions

  • Diffraction and digital photography

    Diffraction and digital photography

    Several times, I talked about the limitation to photo image quality by light diffraction but I failed to go into the details. To the general request of one reader who asked, I will try to give some explanations to better understand why the digital photographer must absolutely take that into account to make better pictures…