David B. Brooks

Using Adobe’s Photoshop Elements 3.0
David B. Brooks  |  Mar 01, 2005

If anything over the years characterizes doing photography digitally, it is Adobe's Photoshop--now the standard mainstay application at the heart of a digital darkroom. I can't remember now just how many years ago I was introduced to Adobe's yet-to-be-released PhotoDeluxe 1.0 at a Comdex computer show. I was impressed with PhotoDeluxe at its beginning...

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Digital Help
Digital Help
Q&A For Digital Photography
David B. Brooks  |  Feb 01, 2005

Digital Help is designed to aid you in getting the most from your digital photography, printing, scanning, and image creation. Each month, David Brooks provides solutions to problems you might encounter with matters such as color calibration and management, digital printer and scanner settings, and working with digital photographic images with many different kinds of cameras and...

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Digital Darkroom
Digital In Black And White
The Status Of Ink Jet B&W Printing In 2005
David B. Brooks  |  Feb 01, 2005

All Photos © 2004, David B. Brooks, All Rights Reserved

The December 2001 issue of Shutterbug I reported on my trials and experiments with different methods of printing black and white photographs with ink jet printers. Today the challenge to a photographer using a digital darkroom who wants to do black and white prints remains similar to what it was three years ago.

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Blog, Blog, Blog, Blog, Photoblog
How Photographers Are Making The Internet Work For Them
David B. Brooks  |  Jan 01, 2005

During the recent silly season of national electioneering, blogs and bloggers appeared on the radar screens of America's media in major newspapers and on TV. Unfortunately that awareness did not come with an explanation that a blog is short for weblog, or that a weblog is really an individual's daily journal or diary self-published on the World Wide Web. So then, what...

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Digital Help
Digital Help
Q&A For Digital Photography
David B. Brooks  |  Jan 01, 2005

Digital Help is designed to aid you in getting the most from your digital photography, printing, scanning, and image creation. Each month, David Brooks provides solutions to problems you might encounter with matters such as color calibration and management, digital printer and scanner settings, and working with digital photographic images with many different kinds of cameras and...

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The Microtek ScanMaker i900
Professional Flat-Bed Scanner Features At A Consumer Price
David B. Brooks  |  Dec 01, 2004

All Photos © 2004, David B. Brooks, All Rights Reserved

Microtek may not be the most familiar name in digital photography, but the company offers the widest selection of scanner models available. Microtek has also been in the business of making scanners for about as long as they have been available in the consumer market. The one reason you may not be as aware...

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Digital Help
Digital Help
Q&A For Digital Photography
David B. Brooks  |  Dec 01, 2004

This department will attempt to provide solutions to problems readers may have getting into and using digital cameras, scanning, and using digital photographic images with a computer and different kinds of software. All questions sent to me will be answered with the most appropriate information I can access and provide. However, not all questions and answers will appear in this...

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Digital Darkroom
Are LCD Flat Panel Displays Ready For The Digital Darkroom?
How To Choose And Use The Newest LCDs
David B. Brooks  |  Nov 01, 2004

In the past couple of years I've reported on LCD flat panel displays either as part of an integrated system (Apple and Sony) or as a stand-alone product (LaCie Photon 19). Although these LCD displays offered some distinct advantages, I did not see that they could replace the functionality of CRTs when it came to image processing. Until a little less than a year ago their...

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Digital Help
Digital Help!
Q&A For Digital Photography
David B. Brooks  |  Nov 01, 2004

This department will attempt to provide solutions to problems readers may have getting into and using digital cameras, scanning, and using digital photographic images with a computer and different kinds of software. All questions sent to me will be answered with the most appropriate information I can access and provide. However, not all questions and answers will appear in...

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Digital Help
Digital Help
Q&A For Digital Photography
David B. Brooks  |  Oct 01, 2004

This department will attempt to provide solutions to problems readers may have getting into and using digital cameras, scanning, and using digital photographic images with a computer and different kinds of software. All questions sent to me will be answered with the most appropriate information I can access and provide. However, not all...

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