Digital imaging expert Tim Grey tackles your digital darkroom questions in his new book, Take Your Best Shot (O’Reilly, $35), written in Q&A format where he answers your most common and vexing digital darkroom questions.

Grey, who is host of the annual Microsoft Pro Photo Summit, is a member of the Photoshop World Dream Team of Instructors and he has written over a dozen books, such as the Tim Grey Guides series for Sybex that includes Photoshop CS3 for Nature Photographers, Photoshop CS3 Workflow and Color Confidence.

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The promise of the PTLens software for lens correction is so inviting you could probably plunk down $15 without much thought to it. Hey, if it matters, you can still try it for free. Download the software and it’s good for 10 images, free. Pay via PayPal if you like it.

Tom Niemann’s PTLens offers to correct lens pincushion/barrel distortion, vignetting, chromatic aberration, and perspective in your photos and it’s available for the PC and Mac platforms. Tom's done a good job of including almost all current camera models for his lens correcton ...

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Jim Hoerricks' site, Forensic Photoshop, contains a wide assortment of interesting posts and tutorials that deal with using Photoshop for forensic work. Jim has also written a book, Forensic Photoshop. Here is a new Photoshop CS3 tutorial from him. (posted by Jennifer Apple for www.PhotoshopSupport.com) Read entire article

Having seen many such smoky pictures (more prettier ones with intricate formations), I had been planning to attempt one myself for a while. I had little information about technicalities of photographing smoke for the first several attempts; for the next few, I didn't necessarily have off-camera lighting accessories. Even with some knowledge and some accessories, I did fail on numerous disappointing occasions but finally coming up with a decent result.

The smoke was generated using Mysore Sandal Incense Sticks, manufactured by the same folks who make the popular Read entire article

Forum Nokia has posted a Flash Lite 2.x Components for Mobile Development. Go download it !!

“This package provides components for Adobe Flash Professional 8 and Adobe Flash CS3. The package includes mobile components for status indicators (device battery charge and signal level) and a general list component. The components can be further customized with custom graphics and parameters”

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Nik Software says the update to their award-winning Color Efex Pro 3.0 photographic filters is now available. The update is available for free download for current owners of the application.

Color Efex Pro 3.1 now supports Aperture 2.1, Apple’s groundbreaking photo editing and management software, Capture NX 2, the latest version of Nikon Corporation’s award-winning photo editing software, and the Smart Filters feature of Adobe Photoshop CS3.

Color Efex Pro 3.1 features Nik Software’s patented U Point technology and offers a comprehensive, powerful, and easy to use set of ...

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Ben Long at CompleteDigitalPhotography.com has released Version 3.7 of his Photoshop Action Pack, a collection of 90 Automator Actions that allow you to script nearly all of Photoshop's functionality from within Apple's Automator in Mac OS X 10.4 and later.

The new version, which is for Photoshop CS3 adds two new actions: Set Blending Mode of Current Layer, and Copy IPTC to Spotlight Comments. The first lets you change a layer's blending mode, just as you would from Photoshop's Layers palette, while the second lets you automate the process of copying IPTC tags ...

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Colin Smith of PhotoshopCafe has released a new DVD - HDR and Photoshop CS3 Training, which features 2 1/2 hours of quality HDR and Photoshop CS3 Training and is priced at $49.99. Here's the promo material... (posted by Jennifer Apple for www.PhotoshopSupport.com) Read entire article

Take a look at Gry Garness’s Digital Retouching For Fashion, Beauty And Portrait Photography. This 190 page e-book on retouching and post-production explains and de-mystifies the essential techniques within retouching and colour adjustment. It’s presented as a series of straightforward ’recipes’ that provide solutions to specific ‘cosmetic’ problems, with sections that focus specifically on colour, skin, facial features, hair, figure, fashion and finishing, as well as a chapter dedicated to efficient retouching. The book is refreshingly free from jargon and Photoshop jokes. It’s a working tool for all photographic professionals; including portrait and beauty photographers, digital operators, retouchers as well as ... Read entire article