Camera Equipment How-Tos

Sidewalk Serendipity

Street photography hones your vision, improves your technical skills, and heightens your reflexes. Plus, it's free and legal!

Get Dynamic in Photoshop

HDR is one of the hottest trends in photography. Learn how to shoot, merge, and tone-map photos to extend the dynamic range and produce those painted-looking results so in demand right now.

10 Quick Macro Shooting Tips

Eliminate the variables, and you'll end up with nothing but great shots.

Get the Best Blues in Landscape Photos

With these shooting tips and Photoshop techniques, the skies in your photos will look their best without detracting from the rest of the image.

Get Light Right for the Best Photos

A veteran photographer and Photoshop master shows you how to work with light creatively to get great images within and without Photoshop.

Add Videocasting to Your Bag of Tricks

Record, edit, and publish a professional video podcast using inexpensive tools and your imagination.

Get Better Output with Photoshop's Automate and Scripts Menus

Learn how to automatically output multiple copies of an image in different formats (resizing along the way); print one page with multiple versions of an image; and create diptychs and triptychs.

Get the Lensbaby Look in Photoshop

You've probably seen the Lensbaby look, even if you didn't know its name -- part of an image is sharp, but the rest of it is dramatically blurred. If you don't have the money or time for the gadget itself, mimic its effect with this software how-to.

Fix a Broken Wing in Photoshop

Did you cut off an important part of the picture while shooting a photo? Here's how to restore it.

Conquer Photoshop Cropping

Cropping may seem straightforward -- just click the Crop tool and go. But like everything else in Photoshop, you'll be rewarded if you dig a bit beneath the surface.

Advanced Color Correction with Photoshop Levels

Do you want to improve just about any image in one minute? Once you understand the Levels tool, you can.

Solve Difficult Exposure Problems with Photoshop

Back in the olden days, photographers captured images on a medium called "film" and used a piece of glass called a "graduated neutral density filter" to hold back exposure in part of a scene while normally exposing the other part. They also walked ten miles in the snow to "darkrooms." Now, we have digital cameras and the precision of Photoshop.

Make a Pinhole Panoramic Camera

Ever feel like your life is a little too digital? Take a break and make this low-tech camera with your own hands.

Lightroom How-To: Intelligent Importing

Lightroom helps you organize, edit, and output images. To get even more out of the app, try customizing the process from the very beginning -- when you import your shots.

Build a Tilt-Shift Camera Lens for Peanuts

This flexible camera lens produces cool optical effects, but it can cost more than $1,000. Here's how to create your own tilt-shift lens for the cost of a few materials.

Photoshop How-To: Brushstroke Bonanza

Get believable results from this digital technique that will have your photos looking like realistic pen-and-ink drawings.

Photoshop How-To: Divide and Conquer

When a photo needs several kinds of retouching (color correction, Healing brush, etc.), you'll get the best results if you focus on one area at a time. The results could be award-winning!

Photo Recipes to Help You Get "The Shot"

Even if you're not an expert photographer, you can whip up incredible images. A few simple ingredients make it happen.

Photoshop Tips: Go Ahead, Be Shallow

It's good to be shallow when you're talking about depth of field. In a photograph, a shallow depth of field can blur distracting background elements so your foreground subject shines. Here's how to simulate shallow depth of field in Photoshop.

Using Photoshop Lightroom, Part 3

Now that you've selected and edited your images to a fare-thee-well, it's time to show them off. Here's how to print them, post them to the Internet, and produce slideshows.