Free DxO FilmPack 3, Limited Time
I have learned today on PetaPixel.com that DxO is giving free licenses to DxO FilmPack 3 until August 15. If you want to …
Working With a Canon G1X Mark II
A few years ago I purchased a Canon G1X, a large sensor compact camera. I was very pleased with its image quality and …
Free Software for Photographers
Fair warning: I found out that getting off the Zoner Photo mailing list to be a royal pain and that they shared my …
Use Your Passport: Create Camera & Light Profiles
(Fair warning, long post but worth every word you read!) Your ColorChecker Passport I mean. I think a lot of …
Avoid Using Internet Explorer
A new threat has been discovered that makes Internet Explorer users vulnerable. Microsoft acknowledged the problem and …
Creative Censor (CC)
I have been using various versions of Photoshop and other products in Adobe’s Creative Suite, beginning with the …
Free Cloud Storage, Big!
Cloud storage seems to be the new frontier, there are quite a few alternatives. Most start you at a small capacity for …
ColorChecker Passport Problem
And a fix! Read on… I have been using my ColorChecker Passport for quite a while and until now the software has …
Canon EOS-M
I have been following the prices of Canon EOS-M to see if it would go down to an irresistible point for me. So far, the …
Useful Gear, Software and Hardware
I have not written about some software or hardware in quite some time. I have a few good pieces of information to share …
PopPhoto, Why?
I have been a subscriber of Popular Photography for years. Every time when the expiration date nears they start sending …
PayPal Came Through
Well, in a roundabout way, and there is a valuable piece of information at the end! I had had a bad experience with a …
Creative Cloud or Captive Consumer?
Adobe has just announced their new software delivery paradigm. A stand-alone program will no longer available in their …
Avoid Poor Vendors
There used to be a cartoon in the early days of the Internet in which two dogs are talking where one says “On the …
NextGEN Bloat
Update: See note at the end, that’s good news; kind of. I have been a fan of NextGEN Gallery, a plugin to …
Adobe Creative Suite
Addendum Adobe has disabled the activation server for CS2 products, including Acrobat 7, because of a technical issue. …
offOne Update
A few days ago I wrote about an unpleasant experience with a software company, onOne, and I referred to them as …
offOne
Some companies succeed despite themselves. They do not respond to customer or even partner requests for assistance and …
Multiple Images on One Frame
In the previous post, I presented a method of creating multiple image composites by photographing a number of frames and …
MagCloud Update
A while back I wrote a two-part article (Part 1, Part 2) about a recommended workflow for publishing with MagCloud which …
Remote Control Canon DSLR with Android Devices
Back in February 2010, when they introduced the first iPad, I wrote a wishful post and speculated on a killer …
A Resource For Photographers
NAPP, the National Association of Photoshop Professionals has been around for quite some time now. Its founder Scott …
Photoshop Lightroom Resources
Photoshop Lightroom has become a very powerful, almost indispensable tool in photographers’ workflow; and for good …
A New Lens
Photographers love lenses, I am no exception. I have a decent collection of lenses that I use on different occasions. …