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GALLERY — 5 Dead Saguaro Cacti On A Cloudy Day

The wild blue yonder of straight horizons

Focus On Imaging 2012

Focus On Imaging is the UK's largest tradeshow and runs from 4th - 7th March in the NEC in [...]

(l.) original image (r.) added highlights on the fireplace bricks at the top right. Photo by Diane Berkenfeld.

Software Review: Tiffen Dfx 3.0 Suite

Buy Photo Nuts and POST eBook, and win a DSLR

Lightroom Interview: Kevin Tieskoetter

Show your lights in Lighting Diagram

HDR - Garish? Realistic? Kitschy? UGLY?

Topaz Labs reaches for the Stars

The 110 page guide to post-processing

Photographing the 4th dimension

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Heather Angel

Pixiq Expert

2 days ago

Even before digital days there were ways in which images of the natural world could be faked: not least by placing autumnal maple leaves equidistantly spaced out on a rock beside water. You only have to have half an eye to see that that never happens in [...]

John "Nemo" Nem...

Pixiq Expert

3 days ago

GALLERY — 5 Dead Saguaro Cacti On A Cloudy Day

The day was cloudy. The light was low. My camera was handheld, consumer, point and shoot, set at automatic. The cacti were dead. Their forms were stark and lovely. All images are full frame, prepared for posting with limited Photoshop CS5 processing [...]

John Neel

Pixiq Expert

5 days ago

Wild Rorschach Mirrors

Photographs can be warped, mirrored and repeated to create endless patterns, designs and crazy images. Fractal algorithms are only a small portion of the colorful transformations that are possible using ArtMatic Software from U&I Software. The real fun [...]

Daniela Bowker

Pixiq Expert

6 days ago

The wild blue yonder of straight horizons

Horizons: they are very definitely meant to be level in our photos. Whenever I see a lop-sided horizon, it sets my teeth on edge. Nature intended that they be straight, at least as far as our eyes can see, and our inner ear knows this. A wonky horizon will [...]

Sean McCormack ...

Pixiq Expert

6 days ago

Focus On Imaging 2012

Focus On Imaging is the UK's largest tradeshow and runs from 4th - 7th March in the NEC in Birmingham. As usual I'll be on the Phototraining4U stand (Q20) giving a series of short talks on Lightroom, Photoshop and Landscapes. My speaking timetable looks like [...]

Diane Berkenfeld

Pixiq Expert

1 week ago

Software Review: Tiffen Dfx 3.0 Suite

A few months back The Tiffen Company released version 3.0 of its Dfx digital filter suite (www.tiffensoftware.com). The suite is available as a plug-in for Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop Elements and Photoshop Lightroom, Apple Aperture, and as a stand [...]

John Neel

Pixiq Expert

1 week ago

Amazing iPad Magazine

Photographer's i is a brand new state of the art interactive magaizine built for the iPad and other tablet devices. Here is a look at it's pilot edition which can be downloaded from the App Store. This app features interactive media and articles by top name [...]

Jose Antunes

Pixiq Expert

2 weeks ago

Buy Photo Nuts and POST eBook, and win a DSLR

Two weeks ago I presented here a new dPS eBook - Photo Nuts and Post - a Guide to Post Processing. Now I can tell you that all buyers have the chance to win a brand new DSLR, iMac computer or Photoshop/iPad. It's true!. To celebrate the release of [...]

Sean McCormack ...

Pixiq Expert

2 weeks ago

Lightroom Interview: Kevin Tieskoetter

Recently I got to pose some questions to long time Adobe Engineer Kevin Tieskoetter about his role on the Lightroom team and his work on the Book Module in Lightroom 4 Beta. Kevin was gracious enough to take time out and answer them. Hi Kevin, thanks [...]

Jose Antunes

Pixiq Expert

2 weeks ago

Show your lights in Lighting Diagram

Lighting Diagram is a web app allowing photographers to create and share high quality Lighting Diagrams easily using just a web browser. Well, some, as Lighting Diagram doesn't currently support Internet Explorer although there are future plans to [...]