Photoshop and its little brother, Photoshop Elements, are amazing tools. They’re also amazingly complex. In fact, you can use Photoshop for years without ever tapping its full potential. In our new Photoshop Secrets series, we’re going to take one small feature of Photoshop per article and help you understand what it does. This week, it’s the History Brush.

Great action and sports photography comes from being in the right place at the right time, and knowing what looks good. Senior Editor James Booth recently took the opportunity to attend a local bike race. While meeting some members of the local bicycle racing team, he also got some excellent action shots. Read on to find out the secrets to great action photography.

Senior Editor James Booth has never had much confidence in the ability of backpacks to protect his gear. All that has changed with the Lowepro CompuRover AW. Not only has Lowepro won James over when it comes to backpacks, they also seemed to have perfected wormhole physics with the amount of gear the CompuRover is able to hold. Read on for a full review of Lowepro’s newest backpack.

Over the past week, we’ve gotten a number of concerned emails and voice mails, most of which we haven’t yet been able to return. No, we haven’t been swallowed by a sea monster. Instead, we’ve been moving — from North Brunswick, New Jersey to Palm Bay, Florida. For the exciting story, read this article.

Recently, we’ve had more and more readers request increased coverage of scrapbooking in Connected Photographer. It seemed to make the most sense for us to kick off our coverage of this topic with a Site of the Month that itself seems to have many resources for scrapbookers.

But just because the iPod photo is a poor image display device doesn’t mean it isn’t getting use. In fact, it’s a wildly popular device. And, with wild popularity comes wild and wacky "hacks" that change how the device is used. In this article, we seek out some of the weirder and wackier hacks and spotlight them for your twisted amusement.

A few weeks ago, we ran a number of letters-to-the-editor that were interesting, but didn’t justify a full article. This week, we’ve got an interesting letter from reader David Jonah that brings up some thoughtful issues about whether it’s a good idea to protect your images online.

We get lots of photo-related questions from readers. Often, if we have anything resembling a useful answer, we repay some old karma debts and just type out a quick reply. While of the questions are pretty interesting, it’s usually the case that neither the question nor the answer is enough to justify a full article. This week, we’ve collated three that were lying around our mail folder.

Enlarger PRO is designed to help you enlarge your digital images and still retain some degree of sharpness. This is not a simple problem and software that does this requires some very complex algorithms. If you’d like to know how well it works, you’ll have to read the article.

Today’s digital cameras allow photographers to take great photos in low-light conditions with a minimum of effort. To accomplish this, the camera boosts the light sensitivity, or ISO rating, for the photo. There is a penalty to pay for this. That that penalty is a noisy photo. Can Imagenomic’s Noiseware Professional help out? Read John Roling’s review to find out.