Recent content by Peter Higdon

Gimp plugins are separate files installed in a plugin or script directory. Some are python, some script-fu, and a few are .exe. The first two can be inspected using a text editor. I routinely do a virus scan on all files I download, whatever the format. I have never seen any thing on the...

I had a session doing some macro photography on some lichens. My setup was an Olympus OMD E-M5 Mark ii with a Panasonic Lumix G 30mm Macro lens. To stay within the optimum resolution of the lens, I used an aperture of f6.3. This gives a DOF of something less than 1mm. So the picture above is...

Thanks for your replies. Juggler, I was particularly impressed by the two PHLearn tutorials you pointed out to me. Not necessarily from the technical point of view, but from the point of view of wholesale change of colours which I had not really considered in the past. That is certainly...

Lets be clear, I am not talking about white balance or colour management here, about which there are oceans and oceans written. Nor for that matter about HDR. I am talking about local controls and altering colours in an image to change the image eg add emotion, emphasise a particular aspect...

I have been using a Wacom Bamboo for about 5 years and found them utterly reliable. I currently use a Bamboo 1 6x9" tablet. I absolutely could not do without it.