Troubleshooting Photos –
Links
The links on this page provide camera reviews, other tutorial and general photo information or they are intrinsically interesting. No attempt has been made to be comprehensive – there are lots of sites that list every photographic manufacturer or sales agency in the world. What's here is either directly related to the content of this site or interesting in itself.
About the links on this page and the site:
- links to pages within this site have no special identifier – they're just links and they open in the current window;
- links to a definition are marked with an open book icon like this TIFF definition; on the Definitions page, they jump directly to the appropriate word but on any other page, they open the Definitions page in a new window;
- links to external sites are marked with an arrow icon, like this Google link and they open in a new window;
- the view-camera icon at the bottom of each page is a link back to the top of the page.
Photo tutorials & related information
- Cambridge In Colour – Tutorials along with a number of visually compelling and technically sophisticated photos of the University at Cambridge.
- Computer Darkroom – Photographer Ian Lyons provides a broad range of essays on his site, plus .pdf's outlining color management procedures with Photoshop.
- CIE and Color Measurement – Illustrations and brief, clear notes on color measurement for a university course.
- Luminous Landscape – Beautiful photos illustrating thoughts on how to take photos, what they mean and how to understand them, plus tutorials.
- Norman Koren – Norman Koren is a photographer who provides in-depth tutorials on a variety of photo subjects.
- Photo.net – Broad-ranging tutorials on every aspect of photography, at a fairly advanced level.
- Wikipedia – Wikipedia is suggested with some hesitation. Often, someone with knowledge and skill will craft a superb article, but then someone with defective knowledge will drop in and use its famous anyone-can-edit freedom to 'fix' that article and render it, if not nonsense, then disorganized or not quite right – either of which can leave you confused. Often an article's greatest value lies in the links it provides at the end.
Camera & photo equipment reviews
- DP Review – Reviews of cameras and ancillary gear.
- Imaging Resource Digital Camera Reviews – Reviews, how-to's and camera-specific tips.
- Steve's Digicams – Reviews of cameras and ancillary gear.
Tools
Photo-editing viewing and cataloging – Listed on the About Photo-Editing Programs page.
Monitor Calibration – A brief discussion of the need for monitor calibration can be found on How The Site Works. A more complete discussion of the use of these tools can be found on the About Color Management page.
- Quickgamma – A Windows application for improving viewing conditions on Windows monitors.
- Supercal – A shareware application for correcting Mac monitors.
Re-sizing – Every photo-editing application has good re-sizing functions built in. The following are intended to push the limits of the possible. Some are Photoshop-compatible plug-ins (which a great number of applications recognize) while others are standalone applications.
- Blow Up – A Photoshop-compatible plug-in.
- Genuine Fractals – Long the gold standard of enlargement applications, still superb, this now has serious competition.
- PhotoZoom – A comprehensive suite that includes good implementations of the basics plus a number of very advanced functions.
- SizeFixer – Available in three versions covering professional to home use (including a version optimized for cell-phone photos).
