Output Sharpening

Image source, frequency of detail, subject, personal preference, output device, substrate or presentation device, and presentation size all play a role in sharpening.The art of sharpening gives you precise control over various image characteristics—contrast, saturation, contour (halo and line), texture and noise. It's best applied...

Green Action – Recycle Ink Cartridges

Be more green! You can make a difference today! Make many small changes to make one big change! And you’ll save a lot! Take action now! Here’s one idea Recycle Printer Cartridges    Here in our Cushing, Maine studio we use many printer cartridges. With...

A Primer On 3D Printing – Lisa Harouni

2012 may be the year of 3D printing, when this three-decade-old technology finally becomes accessible and even commonplace. Lisa Harouni gives a useful introduction to this fascinating way of making things – including intricate objects once impossible to create. Find more Creativity videos here.

High Pass Sharpening

No High Pass sharpening Low Radius High Pass sharpening High Radius High Pass sharpening There are three methods of sharpening in Photoshop that we should all be aware of: Luminance, Edge and High Pass sharpening. In this order, the three methods become progressively more complex...

My Top 20 Images Of 2011

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Profile Your Printer

Prints made with default (left) and custom (right) profiles compared. Good printer profiles help make good prints. Better printer profiles help make better prints. So, logically, you’ll want to use the best printer profiles to help you make the best prints. How do high-quality printer...

Torres Del Paine, Chile

(The landscape surrounding Torres Del Paine reminded me so much of the New Mexican landscape I was raised in that I found myself revisiting themes typical of New Mexico in the images I made in Chile.) During the second part of our Antarctica extension in...

Los Glaciares National Park, Argentina

The highlight of our Patagonia workshop was walking on the glacier Perito Moreno in Los Glaciares National Park, Argentina. Viewing the glacier from a boat is a touristy affair offering limited mobility; if you’re lucky you’ll see a calving. Viewing the glacier from the extensive...

Travelling In Antarctica

  Today I begin my fourth trip to Antarctica. Follow my Antarctica blog for daily updates. You can read my daily posts from my 2009 voyage there now. Find out more about my ongoing Antarctica project – book, galleries, maps, facts, statements and more. Preview...

20 Questions With Photographer Sean Duggan

Sean Duggan provides quick candid answers to 20 questions What’s the best thing about photography? It provides a window through which we can view our own world, as well as the world beyond our experience, other realities and other visions. What’s the worst thing about photography? That...