Dec 162011
 

By M. David Stone at PCMag.com…

In the age of digital photos, photo scanners are still around largely because most of us—or our parents and grandparents—have collections of old film-based photos. Most people would like to get those photos scanned, if they could only figure out how. If that’s the boat you’re in, here are some tips that can help.

via 12 Great Tips to Scan Your Family Pictures | PCMag.com.

 Posted by at 10:44 pm
Dec 112011
 

Whetther you use Windows, Mac, or Linux, a free and open-source alternative to PhotoShop is GIMP.  I love using GIMP and teaching others the basics of how to use it.  You can find my GIMP page with links to resources and download at http://www.charlesaelliott.com/tutorials/gimp/.

This tutorial is from Bernhard Stockmann at GIMPusers.com…

Tutorial: Create a colored zig zag pattern!

via Create a colored zig zag pattern! — Tutorials — gimpusers.com.

 Posted by at 8:02 pm
Dec 052011
 

Some interesting tips and tricks using GIMP.

By Whitson Gordon at Lifehacker.com…

You can do just about anything to an image with Photoshop, but if you don’t have the cash to shell out, free program the GIMP—available for Windows, Linux, and OS X—can take you pretty far. Here are our favorite Photoshop how-tos that also work in the GIMP.

via Top 10 Photoshop Tricks You Can Use Without Buying Photoshop.

 Posted by at 6:08 am
Oct 202011
 

By Beau Colburn at MacWorld.com…

“High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography creates an image that is not possible with a single shot. The effect is achieved by merging different photos of an identical frame taken with different exposures–dark underexposures, bright overexposures, and medium exposures—and using only the properly exposed parts of each photo. With HDR, you can keep the details of clouds on a sunny day while saving a shaded part of the scene in the foreground that may normally be underexposed.”

The best apps to create High Dynamic Range (HDR) photos | Macworld.

 Posted by at 9:08 am