Sure, Photoshop is king.  But are there other free programs that you find usefull?  Can they replace Photoshop?  The only free replacement I really know about is GIMP, the GNU Image Manipulation Program.
GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition [...]

Are you debating between the Nikon D200 and Canon 30D? Then you have to read this. I’ll spoil the ending my telling you the amazing truth: They’re both real good!

Voting is up at DSLRBlog for your favorite photo from the 30 Day Photo Challenge.  Remember, there’s a prize involved.

Well, this is it! My last picture for the 30 Day Photo Challenge! I’m cruising off to my next adventure, just like Chloe’s feet here. I’ll have my wrap-up thoughts tomorrow. I’ll also be starting on my next digital photography challenge, which I haven’t really decided upon yet. I [...]

Must be the phases of the moon or something, but these masks were asking to have their photo taken.
Bon Dieu, mon ami, along with Damballah, Elizi, and Legba compelled my camera to get up on it’s tripod and take this image.

There’s this place up in Monrovia, CA called Jake’s Roadhouse where Amy and I go to indulge ourselves with smoked polish sausages and veggie omelets. For a while it was our Sunday morning getaway. We just went there on my birthday and happened to bring the camera along.

At the tail end of Route 66 is a crazy hotel called the Aztec. It’s a bedraggled hotel with a bar inside called the Brass Elephant, a cheezy but fun place that sports bands and Karaoke. It’s across the store from my grocery store in Monrovia so I made a pitstop and [...]

On a foggy, rainy airfield in Scotland in 1942, the B-17 sat with it’s engines off, waiting for the orders to fire all four and take off for the French coast. Today’s raid, with no fighter escort and in daylight, would be against the train-marshalling yards in the western sector.
The B17 crews would be a [...]