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• Three simple secrets for taking better photos  - (March 12, 2006)
• Keeping the costs of digital photography down, Part 1: Software you simply must have (including one program that's totally free)  - (April 30, 2006)
• Keeping the costs of digital photography down, Part 2: Online printing, a small-photo printer and more tips  - (May 7, 2006)
• Technofile workshop: Photo scanning tips and tricks (May 29, 2007)
• 2005 Stars/Technofile Digital Photo Contest winners
• 2004 Stars/Technofile Digital Photo Contest winners
• 2003 Stars/Technofile Digital Photo Contest winners
• 2002 Stars/Technofile Digital Photo Contest winners
• Getting your digital photos printed online: iPhoto on a Mac and Ofoto on Windows look like winners (2002)
• Digital photo workflow, Part 1: Copying and editing steps (2004)
• Digital photo workflow, Part 2: Finding and cataloging images easily (2004)
• Digital photo workflow, Part 3: Printing using templates (2004)
• Photo tip, with illustrations: How to turn a dud into a diamond with good software (2005)
• Adobe's newest version of Photoshop has many improvements (August 26, 2007)
• Photo software gets a boost for Windows and OS X Macs (Aug. 27, 2006)
• Blog: iView Media Pro: Image management at its best for Windows and OS X Macs (Aug. 29, 2006)
• Blog: Not using iPhoto? Here's what you're missing in Mac OS X (Aug. 29, 2006)
• Getting photos and slides into digital form (2004)
• Turning your old video tapes into DVDs (2004)
• Photos from Yosemite, using both a film camera and a consumer digital model, show how far digital has come. (2004)
• 'Luminous Landscape' DVD journal: Stunning images and expert photographic techniques (2005)
• Landscape photo expert takes you on a tour of Yosemite — via DVD (2005)
• Ben Gest's amazing photos: When art and the mind's eye meet photography (April 8, 2007)
• How to make backup copies of your photos, using DVDs and an external drive (July 23, 2006)
• New software allows non-destructive photo editing (March 2, 2008)
• Blog: Don't let your pictures suffer from JPEG Rot (July 23, 2006)
• Sample photos show how JPEG damages images (Aug. 6, 2006)
• JPEGs, the need for an image viewer (stop fighting it and get one!) and other tips and tricks for image editing (2004)
• Q&A on digital photography: JPEG questions, e-mail and image viewing, print quality and more (2005)
• How to view (and even alter) any kind of image, for free (1998)
• Photomatix merges two images of same scene to improve exposure (2004)
• 'VirtualPhotographer' plugin adds film look to digital images for free (2004)
• You don't need a computer to put your digital photos on CDs; PrimeFoto does the copying and even makes slide shows and digital albums automatically (2005)
• Why iPhoto, the Mac OS X image manager, is so cool  - (Jan. 15, 2006)
• iPhoto Library Manager gives OS X iPhoto software amazing flexibility (2005)
• The best free software for Windows, Part 1: Photo editing and image management  - (May 21, 2006)
• The best free software for OS X, Part 1: Photo editing and image management  - (May 21, 2006)
• $300 Microsoft software ideal for managing digital photos, but free programs do well, too (Feb. 10, 2008)
• Need photo-management software for Windows? Picasa does it superbly, and costs nothing  - (Jan. 8, 2006)
• Got Windows? Got a digital camera? Then you need Picasa, especially considering the price (Jan. 7, 2007)
• A sad day for Windows users: ACDSee falls from grace, and I recommend Irfan View instead (2002)
• Compupic and Thumbs Plus: 2 outstanding image organizers (2002)
• A look at Windows' Irfan View and ACDSee for the Mac (2001)
• Want the best image viewer for Windows as of 1999? There's no contest. Get ACDSee (1999)
• How to set up ACDSee to make it do what you never thought possible (2001)
• Mac OS X needs a good, full-screen image viewer, and it's got just what it needs in ACDSee 1.6 (2002)
• Secrets of Apple's iPhoto software (2002)
• More secrets of Apple's iPhoto software, with bonus tips (2003)
• Get iPhoto to show a single image full-screen with ACDSee or JView (2004)
• Editing your pictures using iPhoto: The basics (2004)
• Misnamed 'Toy Viewer' is a surprising image program for OS X, and the price is cool, too (2004)
• iView Media Pro manages large image collections, and it's very fast; Windows release will join Mac OS X version (2003)
• iView Media Pro's bonus advantage over ordinary image managers: It can locate duplicates among thousands of pictures (2004)
• iView Media Pro gets better; you can get combat photos by e-mail; actual cost of some inkjet printers might surprise you (2003)
• $277 Walmart "IC Power" 19-inch LCD monitor has extra features and great image quality - (Nov. 19, 2005)
• 2002 Technofile buying guide to digital cameras (2002)
• Philips has a tiny digital camera that looks cute, but it takes substandard images and is hard to use. And the manual is no help. (2004)
• How to avoid the unique problems of a digital camera (2003)
• What you can do when pictures don't turn out right (with illustrations) (2001)
• Don't let 3896D439U get you down! Give your photos real names (2001)
• 3 programs for creating fancy screen shots in Windows (2000)
• Want to print multiple images per page? Single images? Have other problems? Qimage Pro for Windows does it all, and nothing else comes close (2002)
• Epson's pigmented-ink printers and professional matte paper make spectacular fade-free photo prints (2003)
• Tired of paying $3,800 a gallon for inkjet ink? How to save money on the high cost of printing (2004)
• Lexmark Z11 color printer costs only $49 with a rebate and prints beautifully (1998)
• Lexmark Z52: Fast color printing, from Windows and Linux (and Macs, too) (2001)
• Confessions of a Lexaholic, in which the author confesses to a weakness and wishes he were a millionaire (2005)
• Make jumbo mosaic posters with a standard printer (2002)
• Good image editors don't need to cost a lot (1998)
• 2 superb new image viewers for Mac OS X: QPict and Archer Pro (2002)
• Photoshop CS2 and Photoshop Elements 3.0: 2 splendid image editors, $500 apart (2005)
• Adobe and Apple create a new class of photographer's helpers (June 29, 2008)
• Image editors for Mac OS X: iPhoto, PixelNhance, GraphicConverter, Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0, Adobe Photoshop 7, DeBabelizer Pro, Photo Retouch Pro (2002)
• 2 tips for taking exciting pictures with a cheap digital camera (2000)
• Ultra-Sharpen, Focus Magic and a few digital image techniques (2003)
• Digital photos, like gems, need polishing to take on their best appearance (2003)
• How to make your own slide shows of high-quality images (2000)
• At last, a way to show your digital JPEG images on TV with an inexpensive DVD player (2003)
• Microsoft's huge art collection (2000)
• Finding images by the ton on newsgroups (2000)
• Heavenly views of the night sky on your computer screen (2004)
• Sony's 5.2-megapixel camera makes stunning photos, even blown up to poster size (2002)
• Your scanner is telling you a little white lie about resolution (2003)
• Image is everything, Part 1: Scanning tips for beginners (and maybe old pros, too) (2003)
• Image is everything, Part 2: Get your monitor to show you what's really there) (2003)
• Image is everything, Part 3: Having fun with your scanner (2003)
• Using the right software with your scanner, Part 1 (2003)
• Using the right software with your scanner, Part 2 (2003)
• Digital photo secrets, Part 1: Practice, not luck, is what matters (2001)
• Digital photo secrets, Part 2: Learn to use what you've got (2001)
• 10 tips to help you edit your digital photos (2002)
• Digital imaging on the cheap, Part 1: The amazing $38 PhotoBrush program, the incredible free Corel Photo Paint (2000)
• Digital imaging on the cheap, Part 2: A good digital camera from Kodak and a way to use a film camera for digital pictures (2000)
• Digital imaging on the cheap, Part 3: Scanner tips you won't find in your manual (2000)
• Digital imaging on the cheap, Part 4: 'Kodak Inkjet Photo Paper' comes out on top (2000)
• Dealing with digital images, Part 1: Why you need some software assistance (2000)
• Dealing with digital images, Part 2: Why you need a good viewer (2000)
• Dealing with digital images, Part 3: Good image editors you can try for free (2000)
• Dealing with digital images, Part 4: Tips for good image editing (2000)
• Dealing with digital images, Part 5: Coping with the huge files scanners create (2000)
• At last, JPEG image processing that is truly lossless, using JPEG2000 (2004)
• Need a format for saving your important images while still saving file space? Lossless JPEG2000 is the way to go (2005)
• iPhoto avoids JPEG losses using a method no other software employs (2005)
• Debunking the DPI myth: Why you can ignore dots per inch in photo editing and printing (2003)
• Spectacular image quality of Mac OS X is built into the operating system (2003)
• Your OS X Mac can make low-res photos look much better using built-in smoothing if you save images as PDFs (2004)
• What's the best way to send digital photos? (2003)
• Why newspapers and magazines might not want to get your digital pictures (2003)
• Sharing photos on Windows and Mac OS X (2002)
• How to view images of any kind that arrive as attachments on a Windows PC or Mac (2002)
• Ultra-Sharpen: A dream come true for digital photographers (2001)
• Focus pocus! Make your fuzzy photos sharp with Focus Magic (2002)
• New version of Focus Magic enhances photos even better than before (2003)
• State-of-the-art image-resizing software for Windows and Mac OS X (2003)
• Picture Window software can blend scans to reduce flaws (2002)
• Frame your digital photos to add some class (2000)
• How to frame your digital photos for only a dollar each (2003)
• Compress your images by a factor of 100 with LuraWave for Windows and Linux (2000)
• Why you should not use JPEGs for image storage (2001)
• How to save 'lossless' images even if your camera uses JPEGs (2001)
• JPEG? GIF? TIFF? The image format blues: How to know which one to use (2001)
• PhotoZoom Pro 2 rescues lost Vietnam photos, enlarging tiny contacts to exhibition size (Oct. 29, 2006)
• Why some kinds of pictures don't look good taken with a digital camera (2001)
• Get rid of the jaggies when you enlarge your images (2001)
• Finding the menu choice when you want to get rid of the jaggies (an apology) (2001)
• An 'iPhoto' for Windows? Picasa sure comes close (2002)
• Scanning slides and negatives, Part 1: Good news and bad (2001)
• Scanning slides and negatives, Part 2: Polaroid's amazing Sprintscan 4000 (with examples of actual scans) (2001)
• Scanning slides and negatives, Part 3: Can a $400 slide and negative scanner be any good? Maybe ... if you don't mind getting two for that price. (Review of the PrimeFilm 1800) (2001)
• PrimeFilm 3650 scanner: Digital Ice eliminates defects, and you get high optical resolution at a low price (2004)
• Snappy 3 for Windows: Better than a digital camera for a lot less (1998)
• JVC digital camcorder takes stunning videos and digital stills, too (1999)
• Real Player G2 is a 'must-have' program (1999)
• RealVideo makes a splash (1997)
• Making your own RealVideo files under Windows (1997)
• Last photos of Anthony Burger before his collapse at the piano  - (February 2006)