Reviews
Can't afford Photoshop? Can't justify the expense? What do you need in a good photo editor anyway? To me, the absolute essential features necessary for any photo editing app are:
Layers and layer masks (alpha editing). These features let you selectively apply edits and filters to portions of the image that [...]
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Photography 101
Black and white conversion is a mysterious process. There are many ways to do it and none is objectively any better than any other for every photo. So, these are guidelines, really, in the spirit of a recipe. But unlike following a recipe for baking a cake, we are not [...]
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Photo by: foxypar4 (cc-by)
Happy new year! I hope you had a great holiday and got to spend some quality time, as I did, with the people you love. I thought a quick look back at some of the most popular posts of 2008 would be a great way to start [...]
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Tips, Tutorials, Hacks
We ran an article last month called Black and White with a Splash of Color. In this video I'll show you a few additional simple but powerful techniques that will allow you to easily reproduce that effect.
You should be able to use these techniques in any image editor that supports [...]
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Tips, Tutorials, Hacks
This 2.5 minute screencast shows a simple and fast technique using multiple layers to enhance the colors in a photograph.
GIMP is free photo editing software for Windows, Mac and Linux.
I published the final version of this photo at Flickr.
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