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What is the best portable photo printer?

Look­ing to print pho­tos on-the-go? A portable pho­to print­er can be both a fun way to share moments and a pro­fes­sion­al tool to boost pro­duc­tiv­i­ty. Like all print­ers, though, choos­ing one isn’t easy. Here we will take a look at the best portable pho­to print­er mod­els and give advice for choos­ing the right one.

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Is GIMP safe?

Do you want to make your pic­tures look good? Well, all you need is pho­to edit­ing soft­ware! Nowa­days, most peo­ple use pho­to edit­ing soft­ware to make their pic­tures look more crisp, beau­ti­ful and rede­fined. There are dif­fer­ent types of pho­to edit­ing soft­ware avail­able online. How­ev­er, most of the soft­ware is paid and expen­sive. If you want to pay for pho­to edit­ing soft­ware, you can use GIMP. How­ev­er, many peo­ple are con­cerned about the safe­ty of using GIMP as it is a free pro­gram. Here, we are going to dis­cuss if GIMP is safe to use and how to down­load it safe­ly on your computer.

Red lights help your phone camera focus in the dark

Why is there a red light on my phone near the camera?

See a red light on your smart­phone cam­era? Many peo­ple are wor­ried when they first dis­cov­er this “hid­den” sur­prise, but don’t wor­ry, your phone isn’t spy­ing on you. This red light you see is a fea­ture com­mon to many cam­eras. Here we will explain what it is and why it’s there.

Man holding a phone showing a camera roll

What is a camera roll?

This ques­tion pops up on cam­era forums and pho­tog­ra­phy blogs all the time. Many peo­ple ask them­selves “why can’t I find my cam­era roll?” when they first start using their new smart­phone, but with this arti­cle we hope to answer any ques­tions about what a cam­era roll is and why it’s impor­tant for photographers!

Understanding Spherical Aberration

In pho­tog­ra­phy, Spher­i­cal Aber­ra­tion is a defect in cam­era lens­es that caus­es light from dif­fer­ent points on the object being pho­tographed to come to a focus at dif­fer­ent points. Spher­i­cal Aber­ra­tion caus­es soft­ness of the image and some F‑stop num­bers to be incor­rect. Spher­i­cal Aber­ra­tion can be cor­rect­ed with lens ele­ments made of high­er qual­i­ty glass. There are

Disabling screenshot thumbnails is easy

How to disable screenshot thumbnails in Mac OS X

Take a lot of screen­shots? New­er ver­sions of OS X now show a thumb­nail in the low­er-right cor­ner of the screen. While this can be use­ful for mak­ing quick edits, users who take screen­shots on a fre­quent basis find it annoy­ingS How to Dis­able the Screen­shot Thumb­nails on a Mac Fol­low these steps to dis­able screen­shot pre­view thumb­nails on new

The Best Alternatives to Imgur Image Hosting

Still using imgur but annoyed by the intru­sive adver­tis­ing? What was once a one-click image host­ing plat­form has turned into a roy­al pain in the arse filled chock-full of intrustive ads. Many users report hav­ing to watch long ads before upload­ing images.  This, com­bined with changes in the site’s mod­er­a­tion pol­i­cy, has many users flock­ing for alter­na­tives. We’ve put togeth­er a list of sim­ple “set and it and for­get it” alter­na­tives to imgur for image hosting.

What is the XRD Software Update Message on Mac OS?

Have you noticed a pesky lit­tle pro­gram called “XRD Soft­ware Update” pop­ping up in the dock on your Mac? This mys­te­ri­ous soft­ware will keep pop­ping up even after you close it, but it’s not clear what XRD Soft­ware Update is, what it is sup­posed to do, and how you can delete it. Here we will explain what XRD does and how to solve this annoy­ing prob­lem on Mac computers.

Moving an image in Google Docs

How to move images in Google Docs

Users of Google Docs often com­plain that they can­not move images once insert­ed into a doc­u­ment. Although this doc­u­ment suite has many time-sav­ing fea­tures, it does not have very advanced fea­tures for mov­ing images. It is easy to make a mis­take and be unable to move an image. Here’s how you can move images in Google Docs and exact­ly what you should do if you can’t move an image in Google Docs:

A clean camera lens on a Pentax camera

How to build or buy the best lens cleaning kit

As pho­tog­ra­phers we have all deal with dirty lens­es on a rou­tine basis. Whether you work pri­mar­i­ly in a stu­dio set­ting or trav­el with your cam­era, you prob­a­bly do not clean your lens often enough. There’s noth­ing more annoy­ing than shoot­ing a set of pho­tos only to find specks of dirt or hair when edit­ing in Pho­to­shop lat­er. This is why every pho­tog­ra­ph­er needs a cam­era lens clean­ing kit. Here’s we’ll advise you on how to build your own lens clean­ing kit and offer sug­ges­tions for the best off-the-shelf kits.