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My wife may disagree, but some things just look better older. Rifle through your hard disk for your photo rejects (I’ve got TONS of those!) — at least a few of them may very well benefit from some Photoshop antiquing.

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Good long-ish but highly practical and interesting article full of real world food photography tips.

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Neat step-by-step instructions on how to use Photoshop to change a photo subject’s hair color from brunette to blonde…

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Just FYI: Due to market saturation and the rise of more capable cell phone cameras, Scottsdale, Az.-hased market research firm IC Insights, Inc., thinks the digital still camera market will plateau and level off at $18 Billion this year.

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Frankly, although I am handy with tools and such, I’d much rather spend my time taking and fiddling with photographs and just shell out the bucks for a good custom framing job (actually, I mostly use “frameless” glass clip frames). But custom frames are far from cheap.

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Google’s free digital workflow software, Picasa helps you find/manage, edit and share all the photos on your computer.

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Not really a photo tool per se, ArtRage is powerful but easy-to-use digital painting software for artists. But it does have one feature that may pique your interest: You can load your photo as a tracing image, a guide on which you can then build your painting “by hand,” so to speak.

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Very simple, easy-to-use solution for image management, editing and sharing, and no, you don’t need to have a Kodak camera to take advantage of this simplicity.

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GIMP stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It’s totally free software for basic photo retouching, image composition and image authoring, and works on a bunch of operating system platforms and languages. But most importantly… it works!

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Why you’d want to do this, I have no idea. But if you’ve got time to burn, a “geek project itch” you want to scratch and an old flatbed scanner just laying around and probably not worth the effort to put up for sale on eBay, then check out these detailed instructions that’ll show you how to build a digital camera from your flatbed scanner.

If you do build one, we’d be curious to see the images you capture with it!

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