In our September 2004 issue, Editor in Chief David Gewirtz gave us one of those cheesy little tips he’s so proud of, this time on how to make sure your picture frames are straight when hanging them. Senior Editor James Booth isn’t a big fan of the cheese, but realizes it has its place. Here, he offers his own blend of dairy, showing how you can keep those pictures straight once you have them aligned.

As a budding digital photographer, author Jen Edwards is always on the lookout for some easy to use tools for her "digital darkroom". In her search, she came across Jasc’c Paint Shop Pro suite of photo editing software. Read on to see what she thinks of Paint Shop Pro.

In this letter to the editor, a reader asks a follow-up question to Senior Technical Editor James Booth’s earlier series on wedding photography. What if you hire a professional photographer and some of the images are lost or unusable? Is compensation in order? Read on to find out.

A good picture makes a great gift! With over 68 million digital cameras expected to be sold this year, digital photography is exploding. Get your pictures out of "JPEG Jail", share them, and turn them into great photo gifts. So set your pictures free this holiday season!

Optical is obsolete. At least according to Logitech it is. That’s the tagline for their new MX 1000 Laser cordless mouse. Laser? That’s right boys and girls. The Logitech MX 1000 is the first laser-powered mouse. The Logitech MX 1000 Laser mouse is 20 times more accurate than a standard LED optical mouse. Senior Technical Editor James Booth puts the Logitech MX 1000 Laser Cordless Mouse to test. To find out how it performed, you’ll have to read on.

Whether you’re looking for gift ideas for the digital photographer on your list, or ideas for yourself, whether you’re a dedicated pro, or take casual snapshots, there are plenty of options to choose from. Author Jon Canfield has rounded up a list of items for the photographer he’s either found useful, or has drooled over himself.

Composition is the art of arranging the setting of the images you photograph. Any monkey can point a camera and click a shutter, but that doesn’t mean the image will be pleasing to the eye, or that anyone will want to look at it. Senior Technical Editor James Booth is by no means a master photographer, but like the other articles in his Photography Basics series, he’s learned a few things over the years that might help you produce better photos. In this piece he examines the principles of image composition.

How often have you had a tall picture that you needed to edit? You can never seem to see the entire picture at once. But with a pivoting monitor, you can see the entire image the way it’s meant to be seen. We review a great LCD monitor that pivots. What makes this one special? Put simply, it’s the quality of the image and the low price.

Over the past months, we’ve been getting in a ton of letters from readers. Frankly, we’ve just been too lazy to dig through them all and turn them into our standard Letters to the Editor column. However, this week, I’ve been busy enough on other topics that I haven’t gotten around to writing my usual column and a good letter will do just the trick to get me out of my article’s due blues. This one’s about what camera to choose.

In this article, author Tim Hillebrand takes a look at two simple cameras that he likes to call Ph.D., or "Push Here Dummy", cameras. Despite the point and shoot simplicity of these units, each offers some surprisingly sophisticated features, particularly for their price and size. Read on to see what Tim has to say about the Veo 130 SD and Pentax S4i cameras.