Digital Photographer’s New Guide to Photoshop Plug-Ins
All too often photographers engage with Photoshop and come away over-awed, frustrated and disappointed. The blame, if there is any, can be laid at the feet of the application’s complexity. One way of dealing with the software is to work initially with the multitude of plug-ins available and deal with specific tasks to gain confidence.

Master Repeating Patterns in Photoshop
In a recent post I showed you how to create a kaleidoscope using Photoshop. As one of the techniques for using a kaleidoscope, I suggested you could create a repeating pattern from it. One reader posed the question as to how a repeating pattern could be created given that there were spaces around the original shape. Today, I’ll show you how to solve the issue and, in the process, get a grasp on creating repeating patterns in Photoshop.

Adventures in Photo Gift-Giving
In this post Matt Bambert shares some ideas on usig your photos as gifts – his post is based upon his book

This Week in the Digital Photography School Forums (1-7 Nov ‘09)
Weekly Assignment We wanted people to look at the less looked at things around them with our assignment on Architectural Detail. We got to see some very interesting parts of buildings that we wouldn’t normally see. Our winner this week was

Zoo Photography
Photo michah I recently took a trip to my cities zoo to do a test on a camera that I was reviewing and thought I’d share a few tips that I put into practice along the way. Zoos are great locations to practice photography as they present us both with a great variety of subjects (both animals and the people watching them) but al