This has been a very exciting week for us here at ZATZ. After many long months of work, ZATZ Editor-in-Chief David Gewirtz’ book Where Have All The Emails Gone? is now available.

Sometimes it’s hard to get just the close-up of the subject you want. You can use Photoshop to call extra attention to your photo’s subject. In this article from Jorge Sosa, you’ll learn how to make your subjects pop against a busy background; and you won’t have to play in traffic to do it.

This week, we asked contributing author Cari Cooney to review Photoshop Elements 6.0. Having experienced only freeware to edit her images, this was an exciting opportunity to get her hands on a high-quality piece of software. In this article, she shows you her experience with Photoshop Elements, and gives you the dish on what beginners and experts alike can accomplish with this software.

Thanksgiving is upon us here in the United States. While the true history of Thanksgiving is subject to some controversy (isn’t pretty much everything, these days?) there are certain elements of the modern Thanksgiving celebration we can all take to heart — even for those of you who don’t live in these United States. We discuss those in this article, and end with a must-read caution for anyone going out and buying stuff on Black Friday.

With family and friends united for the holidays, you may want to capture the moment on camera. Here are some helpful tips for the amateur photographer in us all. There’s magic in holiday celebrations and some of these tips will help you convey that magic through pictures.

It’s the magic hour, that half an hour window of time after the sun goes down. The sky turns to dusk. An amazing cobalt-blue colored atmosphere reveals itself in the twilight. Lights twinkle in the city and street lamps flicker on for their evening shift. This may be the time that you think to yourself, "Wow! I wish I could capture this scene with my camera." Wish no more. Grab your camera, pull over somewhere that inspires you, and get ready to take your own postcard-worthy night pics. In this article, Anne Violette shows you how this can be done, with or without a tripod.

What would be more apropos this month than to show you how to turn your loved ones into the monsters! Don’t worry if you aren’t a Photoshop pro. These two projects are super easy and you’ll be in the Halloween spirit in no time! This week, we’ll look at turning someone you love into a witch. Next week, we’ll be getting all ghostly and such.

You wouldn’t want to really make somebody into a ghost, but it’s easy to Photoshop that special someone into an ethereal form. WARNING! Do not use this technique to fake evidence on you ghost hunting blog!

Photo programs you pay for can cost you at least $100, and that’s just the smallest versions of some of the top-selling software. In this article, we’re going to take a look at two completely free programs. One is strangely called The GIMP and the other is Paint.NET. After reading this, you can weigh the good and the bad of each, and make a decision on which is the best one for you and your image editing needs.

This is perhaps the best article we’ve ever run. Of course, your esteemed editors love cool cars, so when we get to edit an article that contains tips for taking cool car photos, we’re in gearhead heaven. In truth, though, this is a great article because it’s got very tangible, hands-on tips for how to look at cars and capture them in your photographs.