Image Processing Software

There's a ton of digital darkroom software packages on the market.  Our image processing software reviews offer insight with the professional in mind.  Explore our imaging software before your next purchase.

Photoshop CS5: What’s In It For You As the newest update to the pro standard enters the creative marketplace, we look at how some of the new features will affect professional photographers For professional photographers, having the latest version of Photoshop is a good idea.  Read More...

Photoshop At 20 Insiders at Adobe discuss the evolution of software that has become as vital to photography as a lens For photographers today, it seems the word “Photoshop” is the very definition of ubiquity.  Read More...

DPP Solutions: Fast, Easy Videos Animoto is a web-based application that gives you a chance to make a dynamic video from still shots and motion clips. For a minimum amount of time and energy, you can reap the rewards of a new product for your clients. We recently had a conference call with a company that has a very cool application for professionals.  Read More...

A Brief Guide To HDR Photography High-dynamic-range photography has caught on like wildfire, and now with DSLRs capable of creating HDR images automatically, it’s time to revisit this hot trend If you go to the beach at sunset and see a brilliant sunset, what do you see? You clearly see the detail in the sand, in the sky and can enjoy the sunset.  Read More...

DPP Solutions: Get The Hyperreal Look The most powerful software that you haven’t heard of just might be Lucis Pro 6.0 One of the hottest looks going right now is the HDR look. Sometimes it’s called hyperreal, tone-mapped or just gritty.  Read More...

Managing Your Photographic Legacy: Part I Taking a long-term perspective on creating your digital archive By now, all of us know that photography changed forever the moment we began to capture our pictures digitally rather than on film. Overnight, film was dead for most of us, and every exposure made after that had to be imported into the computer before it could be viewed at all.  Read More...

Color Space In Black-And-White What is a color space, which options are best to use, and how can you make your own custom profiles to get the most out of your chosen color space? The subject of color space in digital photography seems to attract lots of controversy and very little consensus, which is unfortunate considering just how important your choice of color space is when it comes to producing the best photographic images.  Read More...

Hi-Tech Studio: Plug-Ins For The Professional Tools to help you streamline your workflow and get your images into delivery shape quickly and efficiently Plug-ins first made their appearance as bolt-on additions for Photoshop. Because certain other image-editing software used the same plug-in architecture, compatibility spread. Later, Apple opened the Aperture architecture to third-party plug-ins, and their proliferation became even more widespread.   Read More...

The High Pass Filter In the ongoing search for new techniques that will give your images a unique look and set them apart from the competition, the High Pass Filter can be another valuable tool for your business Four decades as a photographer scroll easily through my mind as an ongoing loop of “new” techniques. In the late ’60s, posterizing was the hottest thing in the UCLA darkroom. Our student projects overflowed with starkly contrasting black-and-white images that took their lead from advertising and design photos worldwide. Cross-processing, infrared film, solarization and turbo filters—each technique had its time.  Read More...

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