Since the introduction of photo editing software it’s become easier and easier to edit our digital photos. It is so easy to put a picture into the program, fix up the mistakes that exist and ‘beautify’ our digital photos. But does this really enhance our artistic ability with digital photography? In other words, does it make us better photographers? Let’s look at this for a moment. Read more »

About a year ago we ran a “Photoshop” Contest Corner Challenge. It was a really popular one, and I promised we would do it again sometime. Sometime is here! Simetime is now!! Start your photo-editing programs!! Here’s your chance to show off some of your “photoshopping” abilities! There was a bit of a controversy last time we did a digital darkroom challenge, but I think in the end, everyone really enjoyed the change. You can read more about the discussion we had about it last time here. This contest (CCC#47: Digital Darkroom #2) gives us 10 photographs to choose from. You need to use at least 2 of the attached photographs to create your own “photograph” (you can see the 10 photographs here in the contest thread - note: you have to be logged into the forum to see the photos). Read more »

Better late than never, eh? In case you don’t always follow what’s going on in the forums, here’s the scoop with what happened with CCC#31 Digital Darkroom. Read more »

Contest Corner Challenge #31: Digital Darkroom #1 has been announced (see the press release here). While most of our Contest Corner Challenges ask photographers to photograph something specific, or a specific situation, this contest focuses more on post-processing skills, asking those who enter the contest to take at least 2 of the 6 photographs (image available in the contest thread) and “create” a new photograph from them. Read more »