Category: Use

  • GIMP links are back

    After a long absence when we collected a few GIMP-related links but we did not publish them, here is a new list of useful tutorials and tricks for the users of GIMP the GNU-Linux and Windows-based photo edition software. GIMP still being free, these free resources are all the more welcome: photo credit: andyspictures 60+…

  • Stuart Griffiths

    Stuart Griffiths is a photographer who, like so many other documentary photographers, excels in reaching out to a large scope of various subjects. Working repeatedly on projects which involved meeting with people who are army crazy, which in his eyes is something quite strange, he built a rather strange portfolio (“Army Barmy“) where you will…

  • Car races: The 7 best tips

    Once again, YLovePhoto is here to offer its advice to optimize our photographs in the most varied environments. Car racing (or motorcycle racing) is assuredly a favorite spot for photographing an exceptional subject: bright colors, shiny metal, technical expertise, intense concentration around competition, everything is present. So, here are a few tips to start motor…

  • Cheap Lightroom 3 on Amazon

    Lightroom 3 sees its price lowered slightly at Amazon.

  • Benoît Feron

    Today, nearly exactly two months after the ousting of Hosni Moubarak, here is a photograph of an Egyptian policeman that has been selected in Benoît Feron’s photo gallery. This picture is touching for the softness of the smile and the eyes of this uniformed man. The work of Benoît Feron is well adapted to such…

  • How to pick the best point-and-shoot camera for Mom?

    How to pick the best point-and-shoot camera for Mom?

    Mother’s Day is on us. And Father’s Day, too. And if our parents are not strictly as enthusiastic about photography as we are, they probably don’t want to lug around a big SLR camera but they did not fail in asking for advice on what camera they should pick. It’s time to answer with the…

  • New features in Photoshop CS6

    Obviously, Photoshop CS6 is not available yet (CS5.5 has just been announced) but it is already possible to sweep through the information already available from various sources (some official, some not) about this next generation of Photoshop. Some isolated elements have already been disclosed by Adobe in public shows and some have been revealed (or…

  • Peikwen Cheng

    Gai, which means to build or to transform in Chinese, explores the dramatic physical transformation of China as it takes its place on the world’s stage. China is building itself (or should we say “rebuilding itself”). Peikwen Cheng is actively documenting this situation with an eye for architecture, composition, construction and structure. Peikwen Cheng’s web…

  • Suren Manvelyan

    Suren Manvelyan

    Suren Manvelyan is a physicist having graduated in the field of Quantum Chaos. He started to photograph when he was 16. If you visit his web site, you will notice that he is working on many fields and that this is his greatest strength. However, I was stopped by his Saxophonia series. The photo above…