Archive: Pictures
Getting Framed
This may destroy whatever image you had of me as some techno-geek early adopter (really, I'm not), but the only way I've put digital photos on display has been paper. I order up a print of a shot, and when it arrives in the mail, I get it framed and...
By Rob Pegoraro | March 27, 2008; 11:00 AM ET | Comments (15)
A Picture-Editing Checklist
Over this holiday weekend, I resumed my often-postponed effort to go through the pictures that have been piling up in my photo-album software. How far behind am I? Let's just say that it was a major victory when I recently finished sorting, editing and labeling all the shots from my...
By Rob Pegoraro | January 22, 2008; 11:00 AM ET | Comments (15)
Cameras That Polish Your Portrait
For years, people wanting to upgrade their own electronic image have had to work on it--writing a just-snarky-enough blog, pimping out a MySpace page, leaving witty comments on Evite. Now they can just press a button or two on a digital camera. For today's column, I tried out two cameras...
By Rob Pegoraro | October 11, 2007; 10:50 AM ET | Comments (8)
Focusing On Photo-Album Software
The first time I cropped a photo, I had to use an enlarger in a darkroom reeking of developing chemicals. (Pretend you just heard me say that in Grandpa Simpson's voice.) Compared to that, almost every photo-editing program that I've used seems breathtakingly simple. I hadn't compared these applications in...
By Rob Pegoraro | April 26, 2007; 07:00 AM ET | Comments (9)
How Do You Fix Your Photos?
I'm working on a comparison of free digital-photo programs for Thursday's column. As I've been trying out the various editing tools in these programs, I've had to think about how much work people actually put into their pictures. I know some enthusiasts will obsess for hours with a copy of...
By Rob Pegoraro | April 24, 2007; 01:46 PM ET | Comments (41)
