A few posts back, I talked about a great, free program called PhotoPlus from Serif Software. It’s a photo editing package with much of the power and features of Photoshop (including access to Photoshop plugins) without the cost. When putting together this post, I tried out pretty much every free image editing program [...]

I am not an amazing photographer by any means, but I have learned some cool tricks along the way to make many of my photos much more interesting and much less full of distracting clutter. Photoshop has become one of my great friends in photography. And yes, I know in the age of digital [...]

I’m a Photoshop CS user, and so I’m used to having more power than I know what to do with in my image-editing software. I love CS and couldn’t imagine doing my work without it. That said, there are some things about every professional edition of Photoshop that drive me crazy – like [...]

Next to Microsoft Windows and Office, the next most pirated piece of software is Photoshop. This isn’t much of a surprise – ask any one you know if they have a copy of this $600 piece of software and about half the time they’ll say yes.
But what alternatives do digital photographers have that don’t [...]