Google’s NIK Photo Collection Is Now Free

Googles’s photo NIK Photo Collection software is a set of imaging plugins for Photoshop, Lightroom, and Aperture.  Google today, announced it would be offering the $150 software for FREE.  Google has decided to focus on image editing on mobile platforms and as a result, appears not to be further developing the NIK Photo Collection software.  OK,… Continue reading Google’s NIK Photo Collection Is Now Free

Pixlr Image Editor Review

What Is Pixlr? Pixlr is an image editor from Autodesk, where it has some amazing engineering and entertainment software siblings : AutoCad, Maya, and many others. Adobe’s Photoshop is still the top ranking image editor, and trying to make any comparison between Pixlr and Photoshop is like comparing a bicycle to an F-18 fighter jet.… Continue reading Pixlr Image Editor Review

Unsharpen Mask Actually Sharpens Your Digital Photographs

Figure 1. Adobe Photo Unsharpen Mask Location

Unsharpen Mask is a pro tool that you can use now to sharpen your digital photos.  Today, its name refers to a filter found in most image editing software.  According to Wikipedia, Unsharpen Mask originally referred to a darkroom film processing technique using, “… a blurred, or “unsharp,” positive image to create a “mask” of… Continue reading Unsharpen Mask Actually Sharpens Your Digital Photographs