Adobe Photoshop CS3 has a neat new feature. It’s an adjustment called Black & White and it works quite nicely as an adjustment layer. What’s neat is this new feature gives you a lot more control over black and white images than you ever had by just desaturating or converting an image to grayscale.

Fall is here. It’s the season of change and the season of color, and every outdoor photographer is gearing up to add some new shots to his or her portfolio. Why don’t you try something new this fall? Let’s step outside the broadness of the scenic landscape and get intimate! Let’s get up close and personal with fall!

Jamaica’s natural beauty is well known and some areas are always on the must visit list of vacationers. In addition to the natural photographic spots, the island’s rich history has resulted in great houses and other historic monuments that leave lasting memories with those who experience them. While some of the locations listed below may not be on everyone’s list, they are worth exploring if time allows.

What do you do after you come home from vacation and are faced with hundreds of photos? Here are some helpful hints for tackling the task. In this helpful article, Allie McComas shares some of her ideas.

Last month Dianah McDonald talked about time-lapse photography in "Tips for using still cameras to take time-lapse pictures". The example she used was in the form of an animated GIF. The same effect could be achieved using Flash, but for ease of creation, size, and compatibility she prefers the animated GIF. There are lots of programs available to turn your photos into GIFs. The general idea is the same, but, in this article, she demonstrates the specifics in Adobe Photoshop CS3.

What if you could make some simple photo changes without installing anything on your computer? Or, what if you want to resize, crop, or do a little retouching while you’re at school, in a library, or someplace else where you’re using someone else’s PC? Now, with a fun little Web site called Picnik, you can.

Most of us love taking and keeping photographs. Sorting and properly storing these pictorial memories can be a nightmare — but it doesn’t have to be. The following how-to guide will help you categorize your photographs whether you have a digital or print collection, or a combination of both.

You don’t need a movie camera to take time-lapse pictures. Instead, you can use your still image camera and just take a series of images, over time. In this helpful article, Dianah McDonald shows you how.

There are so many expenses that high school seniors have and whether you have to pay for it or they earn the money themselves, it still can be a costly year with dances, prom, senior trips and so on. Making your own senior portraits to share with your family and friends is a wonderful alternative to pricey portrait studios.

These days everyone has one or even two. They are known as a thumb drives, data travelers, flash drives and more. One thing is sure, they are almost the next best discovery to sliced bread. This helpful article will help you care for and extend the life of your thumb drive. By the way, since thumb drives are basically flash memory with a USB port, many of the suggestions here also apply to caring for your camera’s flash memory modules.