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Free photo editors for Linux, Mac, and Windows

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 [...]

Photography 101

Black and White Conversion: Channel Mixer Recipes

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 [...]

Photography 101

A Very Basic Guide to Textures

First off what do textures do? Well, things like this... Some are more subtle than others, obviously! So how do you add them to your photos? The easiest way is to use textures that other people have created. Some are free and some you need to pay for but either way [...]

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Guinea Pig Games

Want to see what you can create if you master Photoshop? How about a calendar expected to sell 50,000 copies? That's what Steve Bicknell of the Maverick Arts Club has created and the theme this year is the guinea pig games. Click here to see a slideshow of the photos [...]

Tips, Tutorials, Hacks

Black and White with a Splash of Colour

One of the techniques people most often ask me to teach them is making a photograph like the one on the right that is black and white with one other colour. There are a few ways to achieve this effect but here is the one I find easiest for Photoshop [...]