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digital photography and imaging
- 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)
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