Who says you have to pay for the best software? Not the Open Source community, who has created one of the best photo editing tools which also happens to be a free download: GIMP. To learn more about GIMP, read on.

In his book, “Camera Raw 101: Better Photos with Photoshop, Elements and Lightroom”, Jon CAnfield teaches us everything we need to know about Adobe Camera RAW – the widely coveted conversion tool for RAW photographers. To see what you can expect from the book and to read what Shutter Photo thinks of the book, read on.

Digital Photography School, always a great source of wisdom, is hosting an interesting article titled 5 Secrets of the Photoshop Crop Tool, written by Helen Bradley.  A lot of quick tips like changing perspective with crop, rotating the crop window, and so on…many of which I’ve never seen before.  Great tips, a worthwhile read for [...]

Google Chrome may be the fastest browser around.  But for now, it’s also the only one that dumps a color profile you may have set up with color management tools like Spyder2. As a photographer, it’s annoying when you start Chrome and everything goes blue. This is going to be a deal killer [...]

Andre Gunther just posted an excellent tutorial about predicting where the moon will be so that you can plan your shots.  The article comes at an opportune time as I have recently been experimenting with night photography.  I am sure that many of you would also benefit from his little tutorial.
In brief, Andre shares his [...]

Last week, I posted that I was awaiting the arrival of my Spyder 2 Express color calibration system.  At the request of some of Shutter Photo’s readers, I am writing today as a follow-up to share my experiences.  So here’s the entire story.
First and foremost, I want to state that I was not ignorant to [...]

Today I would like to discuss the management of your photo archive. After a few years of work, even as a hobbyist, a photographer can easily collect hundreds of his own works. Even hobbyists will occasionally get requests for specific shots from their portfolio, so it must be easy for you to find [...]

Sapping the shutter is, in my view, only about 25% of the entire photographic process. The other 75% is handled in the proofing and post-processing stages. With film, this was an incredible setback as many of us do not have the space or resources to build a dark room. Those without access [...]

Now that the world of Digital Photography is upon us, many photographers, hobbyists and professionals alike, are utilizing Photoshop for their photo processing. Think of Photoshop as your digital dark room. For the past few years, even when I was still working in film, I have regularly taken advantage of Adobe’s acclaimed photo [...]