image editing tips

Article: Curves and Levels in Photoshop.An advanced image-editing tutorial

Learn good practices for adjusting images and the advantage of working in 16 bits.

Article: Corel Painter 12 for Photographers.Taking “beyond the ordinary” to the next level

Turn your photos into paintings? Corel Painter—plus a Wacom tablet—offers endless possibilities.

Article: How to Assess Your Progress Adjusting an Image .Layer Comps in Adobe Photoshop

When you work on a file in Lightroom and Photoshop, you may end up with a lot of layers. Here’s how you can quickly compare before-and-after versions with no muss or fuss.

Article: iPad Photography Applications: Photogene — Adorama Photography TV.Product Review

In this episode Mark Wallace takes a look at Photogene for the Apple iPad.

Article: Photoshop Elements 8 is brilliant in black-and-white.Take control of your tones with the simple, elegant Convert to Black and White tool

You don't need to spend hundreds of dollars on full-blown Photoshop CS if you want to make stunning black-and-white prints. Elements 8 makes black-and-white conversions a cinch.

Article: Artistic photomontage effects.Blending layers in Photoshop and other image editing programs can lead to wonderfully creative surprises

Download these three images and follow along with me using these low-res versions of my working files and your image editor as I show you how to create some stunning effects that rely on blending interactions between image layers.