Ian McNairn thinks about the benefits and nightmares of camera phones. He’s got some great, tangible examples of both sides of the issue and brings great food for thought.

Poor Ben Hochstrasser. He wrote a great, free program called FrameFun. It’s a very useful program, capable of many features. However, in the interests of writing an article about doing what I call "cheesy vignettes," we spotlighted only one, somewhat weak feature of this great program. Fortunately, Ben has both a sense of humor and pride of craftsmanship. He offered to write a follow-up article showing you how you can get a whole lot more out of FrameFun, turning it into a real resource for your digital photography toolbox. This is that article.

In this article, we’ll help you find ten great, useful holiday gifts for your favorite photographer, all under $100.

This article is the introduction to our series honoring 100 years of flight. It’s repeated in each of our magazines this month. Be sure to read the fifteen special articles across all our magazines for some amazingly powerful stories in honor of this special anniversary.

Dennis Deery attended the Oshkosh Fly-In, an enormous gathering of planes, pilots, and flight fans. This article showcases some of his photos from that event.

Pilot and photographer James Aronovsky helps us understand the freedom and adventure of flying…as long as you do it yourself.

Last month, Jon Canfield was fortunate enough to participate in a "Tiger Cruise" on the USS Nimitz. The Nimitz was returning home from an eight month deployment to the Pacific, and participation in Operation Iraqi Freedom. His son is an aircraft ordinanceman (he builds and loads bombs) with VFA-41 — The Black Aces fighter squadron. During the five days he was on board, he was able to watch launch and recovery operations and an airpower show. This article shows images from that trip.

It’s the holiday season, when the slush outside is frightful, and smelly kids are supposed to be delightful, and in that warm and smarmy spirit, I bring you a free utility that will help you create vignettes until the cows come home.

Batch processing takes the tedium of opening each image, making your adjustments and resaving, and then automates that entire process from beginning to end. It allows you to convert hundreds or thousands of images in a short amount of time. This is what ReaConverter Pro from ReaSoft does so well. In this helpful article, John Roling takes you through the steps needed for using ReaConverter Pro.

For many folks, tools like Photoshop are daunting with all their options. So it’s nice when you can find a quick and easy trick that’ll give you a lot of results from a single command. A quick saturation adjustment is just such a trick.