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| ArticlesWe publish a variety of articles on Photo related topics, such as color management, B&W conversion options, Tips and Tricks etc. | |
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|  | Matching your Monitor to your Prints
Getting your monitor to accurately reflect what a print will look like is one of the most important parts of digital photography. In this article we go over some basics to get you on your way to getting a good match between what you see and what you get. |
 | Reduce Banding in Gradients
So you've created a graphic that utilizes a gradient to put somewhere on your website. Could be the background image, or a header graphic, or maybe just a button. The thing is, your gradient isn't exactly smooth as it contains some noticeable banding, that is, the trans... |
 | Saving Images for the Web
Saving images for the web is an important step these days, and it is important to make sure you understand the different aspects of this. In this article we go over the need for images to be sRGB, the Save for Web dialog in Photoshop and the different file types used on... |
 | Shooting Top-Quality Portraits Without a Studio
According to award-winning pro photographer Jim LaSala, you don't need an elaborate studio and an inventory of fabric backdrops to create professional-quality portraits. od DSLR, a pop-up diffuser, a collection of background-worthy images, and the right image-editi... |
 | Anatomy of the Histogram
The histogram. It seems a little daunting at first, but it's really quite simple, and extremely useful. The easy explanation: The histogram (as seen below) is simply a bar graph that represents the amount of each shade of gray in an image, with black represented on the ... |
 | B&W Workshop
We go over a variety of ways to change your images into B&W - from simple desaturation to gradient maps and channel mixer. We then also go over some ways to add grain to the images. This article includes image examples with linked videos to show how it was done. |
| Color Management Basics - Some Definitions
One of the more complicated issues that come up when dealing with digital photography is color management. Color management is all about trying to get the colors that you want, to display properly on a given device, such as a print made on a desktop printer, or a print ... |
 | Tips and Tricks
A kind of long but cool list of shortcuts and tips for the PC and Mac OS's and of course Photoshop. |
 | Color Settings in CS3
For those of you who bring your images to a lab for printing, you've probably run into the problem of not having your images saved in sRGB.. |
 | Images and Their Histograms - Examples
Check out the following examples and their respective histograms from this shoot. When possible, I corrected the image in Adobe Camera RAW and Photoshop to show a comparison histogram. |
 | Sepia Tone Techniques
In this article we display different techniques for creating a Sepia tone look in Photoshop and GIMP. This article contains image samples with links to videos to show the techniques used. |
 | Assign Profile vs. Convert To Profile
One question that is bound to come up from time to time is when to use "assign profile" and when to use "convert to profile". First off, let's just answer this question outright. Use Assign Profile on an untagged image (meaning, there's no profile embedded in the image ... |
 | Filenames and sorting
So you renamed all your files with a sequence number, and uploaded them to a gallery... but they are not displaying in the order you want them to... why is that?
Computers look at numbers differently than we do - they see only the first digit and use that to sort by fi... |
 | Understanding Resolution Part 1
Perhaps one of the most difficult concepts for photographers and other types of digital artists to wrap their minds around is the concept of "Resolution". No, I'm not talking about that steadfast determination to throw your money away on a gym membership come January... |
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