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Not everything in Photoshop is simple, but sometimes you can greatly improve an image in a single step. In a new video tutorial by photographer and retoucher Glyn Dewis we see how adding atmosphere to an image can be as quick and easy as only a single gradient layer.

After opening up the gradient layer palette,...

 

 

A decade or two ago, CompactFlash cards were where it was at. The flash card format won out over rivals thanks to a tradeoff that allowed -- by the standards of the time -- generous capacity and relatively compact dimensions. It certainly didn't hurt that the CF form factor was just about large enough to...

 

 

Good news, iPhoneographers: The next generation of the world's most popular cameraphone series is almost here! And better still, Apple's iPhone 7 and 7 Plus both sport upgraded camera capabilities, among many other changes.

As in the previous generation, the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus share much of their feature...

 

 

If you want to get into movie making, but you're put off by the steep prices for even relatively basic gear like camera dollies, David F. Sandberg has a message for you: "Make movies, not excuses!"

Sandberg, who's best known for directing this summer's horror flick "Lights Out" -- and for writing and...

 

 

If you want to kick your photo editing game up a notch, one of Wacom's Intuos pen tablets could be a great place to start. The Intuos series lets you edit your photos as if they were any other artwork, drawing or airbrushing in your changes with an intuitive and extremely accurate digital "pen", while seeing...

 

 

The robot revolution draws ever closer, it would seem! For years now, computers have been beating us at our own games. First chess champion Garry Kasparov was defeated by IBM's Deep Blue, then the company followed up with Watson, which handily beat two of the most successful human players at Jeopardy. And...

 

 

The Canon 5D Mark IV can do a lot of things well, with a 30-megapixel full-frame sensor, improved video features that include 4K video recording and a rugged, weather-sealed body. Landscape photography, photojournalism, portraiture, commercial photography, you name it, the 5D IV is a significant step up from its...

 

 

Looking for an all-in-one printer for your home or home office, but don't have a lot of space to spare? If so, you'll want to take a look at the latest generation of Canon PIXMA all-in-ones -- at least, if you're in Europe, that is, since they've not yet been announced stateside.

The Canon PIXMA TS5050,...

 

 

French journalist, novelist and critic Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr is credited with the expression "plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose", these days often stated simply as "plus ça change". For those of you who don't speak French, the phrase translates into English roughly as "the more things change, the...

 

 

Defining photographic genres can be quite difficult, and street photography is no exception. It’s not always clear what it is, nor how it overlaps with other types of photography such as photojournalism, documentary photography, or even portrait and architectural photography. Eric Kim is a prominent street...

 

This thermal image of a lithium-ion battery pack shows what happens when the battery is incapable of releasing the heat it generates. The chain reaction happens very quickly, and is very dangerous.

Wake up with IR! Here's today's cup of Caffeine Priority...

Batteries are, perhaps, not the most exciting topic. When...

 

 

Photoshop is not just for fixing images in images; an Indian couple has proved it’s also great for lying about your accomplishments.

In claiming to be the first Indian couple to ascend Mt. Everest, Dinesh and Tarakeshwari Rathod -- who are police officers, by the way, so you’d hope for them to be more honest -- ...

 

 

In July, Adobe released Lightroom for Mobile version 2.4 for iOS. This update brought with it two particularly big new features for photographers with iPhones and iPads: The raw technology preview and local adjustment tools. As long as your raw files are supported on the desktop version of Lightroom, you can sync...

 

 

Three years ago, navigation heavyweight Garmin surprised us with the launch of the Virb and Virb Elite, a duo of surprisingly fully-featured action cameras that took on the popular GoPro series head-on. Two years later it followed up with the Virb X and XE, and now it has launched a successor that takes the...

 

 

German optics legend Zeiss is known for its quality lenses, but its latest product announcement is an impressive-looking piece of kit even by the company's own high standards. The Zeiss Lightweight Zoom LWZ.3 21-100mm/T2.9-3.9 T* is a professional Super 35-format movie lens that, as its name would suggest, is...

 

 

It's been two years since we first told you about action camera giant GoPro's plan to create its first unmanned aerial vehicle, a move which would put it in competition with drone heavyweight DJI. Now, the company has finally set a date on which that device -- subsequently named the GoPro Karma drone -- will...

 

 

Rhino Camera Gear recently published an excellent video guide for how to shoot a Milky Way timelapse. In the video below, we see a Rhino Slider EVO Carbon 24", Rhino Motion, Rhino Arc, Sony A7S camera and Rokinon 14mm lens being used together, but you don't necessarily need all of that fancy gear.

One of the most...

 

 

Too often, the word "free" is misused. Really, what it often means is "with strings attached", or "with a pricetag that you'll discover later". Thankfully, that's not the case with an online course in digital photography just shared by Stanford professor Marc Levoy. In his free 18-lecture course, you'll learn...

 

 

A couple of years ago, we reported on Chinese camera gear maker Yongnuo's plans to offer its Canon lens clones for the Nikon F-mount. Yesterday, the folks at Nikon Rumors picked up on availability of another new Yongnuo lens appearing on eBay with a Nikon mount. This time around, it's a clone of Canon's 35mm...