Using sharpening tools can significantly improve your images — but you need to know what you’re doing. Photoshop expert Helen Bradley has a useful guide to the basics of sharpening technique. More »
Looking for some ideas on how to jazz up some digital images? Look no further than your CD collection. More »
The photog gurus at weblog Digital Photography School offer up 13 tips for improving your outdoor portraits, several of which explain how to best take advantage of whatever lighting conditions you’re shooting in. More »
Windows only: The Image Resizer Powertoy Clone adds an option to the Windows explorer context menu for quickly resizing pictures—without opening an image editor. More »
Windows only: Radical Image Optimization Tool makes it easy to see how compression affects the image quality of the pictures you’re optimising with a handy side-by-side interface. More »
While these eye-catching icon sets are distinctly Mac-centric, many of them are filled with stunning pieces that could be easily co-opted for another operating system. More »
Windows only: Reader Anonymous writes in with an interesting tip for making the web a more readable place—by forcing Firefox to use Windows Vista fonts, even on XP. More »
If you’re looking for an abstract splash of colour to spruce up your desktop, the collections here should have something that catches your eye. More »
