photography

Photoshop Elements Fast and Easy

Photoshop Elements Fast and Easy

You know how powerful Photoshop is, but have you used Photoshop Elements? This is the junior or consumer version. It cannot do everything Photoshop can do, but it is perfect if you have photos that just need a bit of very quick help. This powerful little program is...

Review Rokinon 24mm f2.8

Review Rokinon 24mm f2.8

Review Rokinon 24mm f2.8 If you are looking for an affordable wide angle, E mount lens, the Rokinon AF 24mm f/2.8 FE may be just what you want. This Full-Frame, Autofocus pancake lens is less than $140 at Amazon. You won't find a better lens at this price. This...

Very Clever Photoshop Business

Mandy Helwege made over $100,000 in the first six months of 2022 by Photoshopping pet pictures. She started a business called Seeing Double Edits. She would Photoshop an image of a dog next to an older image of that same dog as a puppy. This was started as a little...

Free Photoshop Clone

Free Photoshop Clone

Photopea is an open source image editor that looks and works like Photoshop. You will think it is Photoshop, but this runs in your web browser. So you don't have to install anything. You don't have to worry about updates because you are always running the latest...

Easy Bokeh Backgrounds

Easy Bokeh Backgrounds

Bokeh circles are formed from points of light. These circles are often lights in teh distance. By using a shallow depth-of-field or wide aperture of yuor lens, the points of light become circles. A long lens increases this effect. The final factor is focus distance....

Photography and You

Photography and You

Last year alone the estimate is that people took 1.2 trillion photos. A lot of them were selfies. These are different from other photos. The ego is at stake in a selfie which is why there are so many touch up apps out there. Facetune2 is one example. It can smooth out...

Beautiful Black and White Film 1934

Beautiful Black and White Film 1934

Evelyn Prentice is a 1934 film starring William Powell and Myrna Loy, and featuring Una Merkel and Rosalind Russell in her film debut. The movie was filmed between the original Thin Man and the first of its sequels. The Thin Man series is comedy-mysteries based on the...

How To Use Google Photos

How To Use Google Photos

Google Photos is the best cloud photo storage site that makes backing up and organizing your photo library very easy. It's remarkable how well it identifies people in your library even as babies. It also makes automatic GIFs and movies from your photos. You can get...

Scan Photos

Scan Photos

Video, Film, Photos, Slides. Why Scan Photos? Photos can easily become damaged, torn, dusty, faded and worse. Your family photographs are a window to the past. This is your life, your family history. We help families and businesses RI and Southcoast MA preserve and...