Skyline photos

Article on how to shoot better skyline photos.

Tutorials

A page overflowing with tutorials and other info in a variety of web design, coding, and Photoshop.

Top 500 watercolor brushes

Another Photoshop(R) article, this giving us a wonderful collection of over 500 water color brushes.

Digital panoramas

I’ve put together some panoramas from a series of photos, with varying degrees of success. Some tricks are pretty obvious, while others are a little more subtle. Fortunately for us, Digital Photography School (gotta love what they put together to help us!) has put together a set of tips and tricks to help us up the panorama photography learning curve a little more quickly.

Top 15 places for Photoshop brushes

Photoshop brushes add a to your toolbox of techniques and styles. This article pulls together 15 of some of the best sources of brushes.

Top 50+ Photoshop tutorials

Another set of Photoshop tutorials. This is heavy on portraits and other techniques retouching pictures of people. As I’ve been playing with portraits recently, I’ll have to dig into a couple of these. (Not the ageing tutorial – I’m old enough already!)

But take a look at this Photoshop tutorial collection for yourself.

Photo Basics: Time Lapse

Who isn’t entranced by video that stretch or compress time?

Slo-mo, familiar to all sports fans, allows us to stretch time: a bullet cutting a playing card in half, with the bits of paper flying everywhere, or the bursting balloon with the water retaining its cohesion and shape after the taut rubber has snapped back to its original size, and then spewing droplets of water everywhere.

Time lapse is at the other extreme, allowing us to watch clouds stream across the sky, cars rocket across a landscape, a flower blossoming, a plant growing, or a glacier melt back 100 feet in a matter of minutes.

Time warping clearly gives us a different perspective on events surrounding us.

This article from the Digital Photography School, which we’ve tapped before, gives us the basics of time lapse photography.

22 Photoshop tutorials for professional photo enhancement

Here is a series of 22 Photoshop tutorials so you can get professional results with your photos. Things like enhancing skin tone, adding light effects and the currently popular tilt-shift effect.

Top 8 tweaks to make GIMP replace Photoshop

Photoshop is unarguably the standard in photo & image manipulation packages. And they are very good. But poor folk like me don’t have the deep pockets required to run such a sublime piece of software.

Or do we? GIMP, the poor man’s photo & image editing application, is becoming more and more powerful, and its Open Source basis means that there a many experts adding to its capabilities every day.

Smashing Magazine brings us 8 tweaks that help us replace Photoshop with GIMP.

Top 5 Image Editing Software

Photoshop is the only image editing package out there, right?

Yeah, there are other packages that come with your camera that let you rotate, crop and get the red out, but if you want to do some serious image work, you have to get Photoshop.

Well, actually, no. If you have read this column enough you have seen a number of reference to GIMP, the Open Source image editing package (poor man’s Photoshop?) that is becoming quite powerful. Some Photoshop scripts don’t transfer directly, but it’s really pretty good.

And, actually, there are other packages available as well. This article SixRevisions reviews the top 5 image editing packages on their list.