If you ever visit the Grand Canyon, here’s a word of warning: It’s huge! Like many of nature’s wonders, it’s too vast to be captured with just your standard digital camera. But with a little Photoshop voodoo, you can capture it all. In this helpful article, Jorge Sosa shows you how to use the Photomerge feature of Photoshop to create wonderful panoramas.

You don’t need a camouflage suit, hunting gear or a rifle. When we talk about shooting animals, we mean shooting them with your camera. The trick to taking really great animal photos is patience. A perfect animal image can be award-winning or highly saleable for greeting cards, calendars, stock photography and countless other uses. Because it is considered so hard to do, achieving that momentous expression of an animal’s face is indeed priceless. It can also be personally rewarding.

Jessica McCurdy Crooks shares with us why she loves all photography, but particularly nature photography. The unpredictability of Mother Nature and the myriad changes occurring at any given time of the day or night make taking pictures of natural settings a thrill — you never know what you will discover.

One of the first lessons many beginning photographers learn is to avoid taking pictures of people when they’re standing in front of windows. Of course, another lesson many of us learn is there’s a time and place to break the rules. In this fun article, Jorge Sosa shows you how and when to use the power of darkness (MUHAHAHA!) to create eye-catching silhouette portraits.

Do you ever get that sick sensation in your gut? You know, the one that accompanies the realization that you’ve just accidently deleted some really important files? It’s twice as bad when those files happen to be your priceless digital photos. In this important review, Jorge Sosa tells us whether PHOTORECOVERY can help you ease the gut ache.

Given that this is Valentine’s Day, have you ever considered taking sexy, boudoir photographs? It’s really easy to do. This gift idea is perfect for ladies who want to give their men something special this year. Here are some easy tips to take smoldering boudoir photographs on your own.

When the temperature outside dips below freezing, the snow swirls and spring seems to be a long ways off, many photographers go into hibernation mode. Winter becomes a time to huddle up in the warm house, start planning for spring photo outings and perhaps spend all those hours processing and sorting the countless images you took in the fall. But then there are the brave few. Those of us who are not content to sit inside and wait for the thaw. Those of us who know there are many opportunities for beauty and discovery in the snow and ice.

Cari Cooney recently had the pleasure of reviewing Adobe’s Photoshop Elements 6.0. This was a double disc set that included Premiere Elements 4.0 video editing software. It’s time for part 2 in this miniseries of reviews. Prepare to be amazed at the glory of Premiere Elements 4.0. Did we like it? What do you think?

Remember the days when a simple handshake was all you needed to finalize a deal for a photography assignment? Save the handshake until after a contract has been signed. Not having a photography agreement is like trying to swim from a mile out in the ocean. You probably can make it all the way to shore by yourself, but there’s certain hazards along the way and it really would be a lot easier to have a boat. Think of the contract as your boat.

On December 23, 1997, we wrote our first news story. We wanted to get in a week of practice and testing before we went live. On January 1, 1998, PalmPower Magazine went live and we published our first issue online. This week, we reached a huge milestone: 10 years of continuous publishing online here at ZATZ.