Photo Asset Mgmt./Workflow Features

Photo Murals Make You Think Big. Really Big.

For this children's museum in California, one intrepid creative pro produced an 18-gigabyte HDR Photoshop file, a 19-foot-long printout, and a 9-foot-high neon sign.

HerGeekness Says: Convert a File, Any File

When clients hand you files so ancient or obscure that they're unreadable, don't despair. Part 1 of my file conversion survival kit will have you repurposing those files lickety split -- without asking the client to lift a finger, and without forcing you to buy every application under the sun just to open the occasional weirdo document.

Learn Wedding Photography from the Pros

What gear do you need? What settings are best? What shots are must-takes? And how do you protect your media and your business? Three professional wedding photographers spill their secrets.

Photography Secrets from One of the World's Top Shooters

Joe McNally, whose work has graced the pages of Sports Illustrated, National Geographic, and Time (to name a few), shares the stories behind some of his greatest shots as well as the lighting techniques he used to make them great.

Set Them Free!

Find and use the free images and photos hidden in common applications.

Going with the Flow

A Visual Designer Transitions from the Silver Screen to Your Computer Screen

Do You Need Pricey Photo Software?

If you're a digital photographer who shoots regularly, you can benefit from workflow software. But if you already have Bridge (which comes free with Photoshop), do you really need to pay for Aperture or Lightroom? Read this and find out.

Captain, Please Report to the Bridge

In CS3, the Bridge is a better command center.

Shedding Light on Lightroom

The release date of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.0 is now public. But how much do you really know about the app itself? Read this interview with Mark Hamburg, the founder of the Lightroom project, for the inside scoop.

66 Simple Ways to Be Green

You are just one person. But we, the creative professional community, are a significant force. The choices we make matter. If you follow through with just one of these 66 tips, you'll have improved the environment we all live in.

First Look at Aperture 1.5

Let our expert take you on a in-depth tour of the just-announced Aperture 1.5, Apple's pro-level digital imaging software.

Find Your Photos Fast

Is your hard drive overflowing with photos? Can you locate specific pictures quickly? If you answered yes to the first question or no to the second, you're a candidate for this digital photography workflow.

Framed & Exposed: A First Look at the Nikon Capture NX Beta

Aperture, Lightroom, and the rest of you guys, look out: Nikon's Capture NX (now in beta) is a simple, powerful, non-destructive image editor and manager. And as this Canon shooter can prove, it's not just for Nikon users, either.

Framed and Exposed: What a Difference a Dot Makes

A dot-update usually doesn't warrant more than a yawn. But in the case of the just-released Aperture 1.1, there are many improvements, new tools, and a dramatically lower price.

Photoshop, Industry Giant

Photoshop is far more than an application -- it's an entire industry. It dominates the image-editing world because it's a worthy tool created by a team that responds to user input and can keep pace with rapid technology shifts.

Take a First Look at Adobe's Lightroom

Photographers are getting a lot of attention these days. Adobe has just released a public beta of Lightroom, a new application for organizing, editing, and outputting images. Ben Long takes you on a tour and advises you on whether this in-progress program is worth installing.

Aperture: Raw Deal or the Real Thing?

Will Aperture be an opening for Apple into the pro photo world? Ben Long offers his early thoughts.

Stripping Raw Naked

Apple says that Aperture, its new photo-editing and -management program, is a boon for photographers shooting Raw files. Creativepro.com looks past the hype to the bare truth.

Creativeprose: To Upgrade Or Not to Upgrade; That Is the Question

We asked if you were going to upgrade to the Adobe Creative Suite 2, and you answered.

What's New In Creative Suite 2

In this excerpt from "InDesign Magazine Issue 5," we give you details on the hot new features in the suite as a whole, and in the updated Photoshop, Illustrator, GoLive, InDesign, and Acrobat.