Light has color. (…)

If you're serious about photography, and if you're looking for the best and most powerful photo editing program around, the de facto standard and market leader is Adobe Photoshop CS2. (…)

Yes, the name is backwards. The "Unsharp Mask" tool in Adobe Photoshop and other programs does exactly the opposite of what the name implies–it sharpens pictures. (…)

Imagine, for a moment, if we could do a statistical analysis on a digital photo.
We would want some way to count how many dots of each color there are in a given picture. (…)

Digital photo editing beginners often misunderstand what the Sharpening tool can do for a photo.
The first thing to remember about Sharpening is this. (…)

One of the most common problems in photography is the demonic transformation of the Red Eye effect. It comes from using a flash in a dimly lit area. (…)

Photochopping involves using a photo editing program to edit a picture. It's regarded by many as a visual parody, though some people feel it isn't much better than copyright infringement. (…)

With the advent of digital photography, news has become closer and more immediate. (…)

Thumb Drive A Thumb Drive is one name for a USB Flash Chip. Other nicknames are Jump Drive and USB Keychain. (…)

Red Eye Red Eye is the reflection of the camera flash off of the back of the subject's eyes. It happens most often with a bright flash in dim light. (…)

Megabyte A megabyte is generally about a million bytes, or a thousand kilobytes. Technically, a megabyte is 1024 kilobytes.
Megapixel A megapixel is one million pixels, or dots. (…)

Image Resolution The Resolution is the number of pixels, or dots, in a picture.
Inkjet Printer An Inkjet printer sprays tiny jets of ink onto paper. (…)

Dodging Dodging is making a section of a photo lighter. When this is done in the darkroom, it's usually by blocking some of the light from reaching that part of the picture. (…)

Aperture The Aperture is the size of the opening in the camera lens at the moment a photo is taken. Aperture is measured in fractions, so the larger the number, the smaller the aperture opening. (…)

Photographs capture a moment in time.
Photos are generally regarded as "factual," as opposed to a drawing or painting, which would be the artist's interpretation. (…)

Let's say you're on vacation. You've just taken a fantastic picture with your brand-new SupraUltraMax 18 megapixel camera, and you want to ship it home to all your friends and family. (…)

In the world of marketing digital cameras, megapixels seem to be the beginning and end of a camera's power. (…)

"I've heard a lot of confusing stuff about JPGs. (…)

Almost as soon as the first photographs came out of cameras, people were using them to manipulate images. (…)

Adobe Photoshop is the market leader in photo editing software. (…)