The GIMP (or GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a free substitute for popular commercial image editors such as Adobe Photoshop and Corel PhotoPaint. For the majority of users, the GIMP will be able to accomplish all of their image-editing tasks and more. For the rest, the community-driven nature of the GIMP ensures that requested features will likely be available soon.

Portrait lighting can be one of the more difficult things to learn in photography, particularly if you’re doing it by trial and error. This article, by our own James Booth, finally makes this critical skill understandable.

Darren Herman, Product Manager for the MyPhotoAlbum service, takes us inside the world of online photo albums and helps us understand why these new services can be so valuable to photographers and their friends and families.

We review Digital Photography Hacks, a new O’Reilly book written by Derrick Small. Is it as good as some of the other O’Reilly books? You’ll have to read the article to find out.

Do you want to take great product photos for your eBay auctions? If so, we’ve got the easiest, least expensive method you’ll ever find. Read this article for the details.

Have you ever wanted to take great pictures of your jewelry, but either not have a digital camera or just want an easier way? Imagine if you could find a foolproof method of scanning in beadwork or even bulkier jewelry with just a scanner. Now, you can. In this helpful article, Marilyn Gewirtz shows you how.

Last week, in introduced you to a nice little program called PhotoRecovery. It came as part of Paint Shop Photo Album 5 Deluxe Edition from JASC, bundled in the little mini-suite. This week, we find out more about the product, and learn that an out-of-date version of the product was included in the bundle. Read on for some more lessons from the dark side.

We kick off our Buried Gold series, which looks for special and unique values buried within product suites, with PhotoRecovery, a product buried within Paint Shop Photo Album 5 Deluxe Edition that can recover your lost photos from memory cards and your hard drive.

In this interesting article, Editor-in-Chief talks about a product shoot used for another ZATZ Magazine. Come on along for the ride!

We review Mastering Digital Photography and Imaging, a new Sybex book written by Peter K. Burian, who’s known as the co-author of the National Geographic Photography Field Guide. This nicely produced book is intended to demystify the world of digital photography and imaging.