Product reviews

Sigma DP2

Sigma may be better known as a supplier of affordable third-party lenses, but it has been developing digital cameras that make the most of its heritage and deliver digital SLR quality within compact casings.

Ricoh GR Digital III

The latest austere-looking Ricoh digital model marries a high-quality, 10-megapixel sensor to new processor and high-quality, wide-angle lens.

Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF1

This 12.1 megapixel Lumix is the only one in this test that lets you change lens.

Kodak EasyShare Z950

Pitching itself at the value end of the market, this Kodak model has plenty of surprises.

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Blogs

InDesign tip: tinting grayscale photos

February 7, 2010

Changing the colours of photographs in your InDesign project requires Photoshop, right? Not necessarily. If the photo is black and white and saved in grayscale mode in a compatible format, you can tint it directly in InDesign. You can even assign it two colours for an attractive duotone.

Digital Arts | Pariah S Burke | Read more...

Did Photoshop get Flash onto the Apple iPad?

February 1, 2010

It looks like Apple's iPad really is magical after all. Marketing materials for the iPad mysteriously morphed overnight following complaints that they misleadingly depicted the device showing Flash-based content. As of Saturday morning, presto-change-o: The Flash is gone.

Digital Arts | JR Raphael | Read more...

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Featured news

Canon unveils EOS 550D 18-megapixel DSLR camera

Canon has announced a new addition to its expanding, well received EOS range of digital SLR cameras - the EOS 550D.

Kitsune Noir's Bobby Solomon gives an insight into The Desktop Wallpaper Project

One of the best places to find desktop art is Bobby Solomon’s Desktop Wallpaper Project. We chat to the designer and blogger about what he gets out of curating this.

Haiti charity project brings leading illustrators and designers together

We talk to Ben The Illustrator about The Renmen Project, which will sell artwork from leading artists to raise money for the Unicef Haiti Earthquake Children's Appeal.

Nikon launches seven Coolpix cameras

Nikon took the wraps off its 2010 Coolpix point-and-shoot camera line today, which include from a 26x optical zoom model and a bunch of pocket zoomers too.

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Tutorials

Photoshop Tutorial: Create dynamic lighting

Dynamic lighting isn’t new – far from it. The 16th-century Baroque art movement saw artists such as Giovanni Baglione use chiaroscuro (Italian for light and dark) to add a sense of depth, atmosphere, and emotion to their work. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how the same lighting principles can be applied to your photo manipulations.

Photoshop Tutorial: Transform lolly sticks into textures

Are you inspired by the mundane? The seemingly normal everyday things you come across? If not you should be, because what may appear to be nothing, can be turned into something unique.

Classic Photoshop Tutorial: Create distressed textures for digital paintings

Are your images slick and polished, when you’re after a rougher, more urban feel? Mess things up a little: David and Sarah Cousens show you how.

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Feature articles

Draw some Cash

Making your own products takes energy, determination and talent – but it’s not hard to see why more and more creatives are taking up the challenge. The market for design-led products is booming, and the choice of objects you can create is bafflingly broad.

Project: Fluorescent Hill goes to town

Tom Waits has one of the most instantly identifiable voices in contemporary music: it’s a sort of booming roar. Kool Keith has one of the most staccato, distinctive rap styles out there. How do you animate these iconic – but very different – voices?

Group Test: Pocket-sized power snappers

Gavin Stoker surveys six compact cameras that promise digital SLR-like quality and effects without the bulk

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