Back in 1997 I was doing some before-and-after architectural photography in Nashville when I stumbled upon a time-travel wormhole! A car was racing down Broadway past Union Station and transmogrified ...

Just saw this today, though it's been posted in various places over the last few days. I suppose this would apply mainly to non-professional photographers, though there might be some creep into the pr...

The fires out in California (once again!) provide some great conditions for photography, if nothing else. I shot these during the past few days out of my living room nd bedroom windows with an olde...

We had a fair bit of rain recently here in SoCal and got lucky with a nice covering of snow in the San Gabriel Mountains. Yesterday I was armed with more than the usual iPhone (!) and got some nice...

Done with grocery shopping, I got back in the car and looked left as I put my seatbelt on. Reflected in the door handle of the car next to me were a couple of palm trees, bright and clear in the shiny...

On another forum there was some talk of Topaz A.I. Gigapixel making it easy to grab and reuse web-sized images (for good or bad). So I did a test using my own website (http://www.plugsandpixels.com). ...

I spent a lot of time testing A.I. Gigapixel with challenging lower-res digital images from the last decade and a half, but then I realized that scans of even older film-based images might see some be...

If you need to do extreme upsizing of images, the new Topaz A.I. Gigapixel might interest you. I prepared some examples (http://plugsandpixels.com/blog/topaz-a-i-gigapixel-vs-ps-on1-more-tests) compar...

Barbara, I hear it's 1/3 contained today, 22,000+ acres burned...

Holy Fire as seen from Fullerton CA a couple days ago. Six floors up in an office building. From ABC: "The smoke from the California wildfires has not only been impacting the West Coast. Incredibly...

Here's an interesting site I discovered yesterday, listing past and current security vulnerabilities for various operating systems. You can do searches. Here's the list for macOS (http://www.cvedetail...

Today ON1 released the new Photo RAW 2018, which you can download for free (http://bit.ly/2jb9EmL) and use for 30 days and/or order now. About ON1 Photo RAW 2018 ON1 Photo RAW 2018 includes the ...

You’ve probably heard by now about the devastating wildfires occurring in Northern and Southern California. I happen to work just a few miles from the Anaheim Hills fire, which affected thousands of a...

I’ve had the Plugs ’N Pixels website (http://www.plugsandpixels.com) up since 2004 and its companion free PDF ezine (http://www.plugsandpixels.com/ezine.html) available since 2005. A couple of weeks a...

Topaz Studio release version 1.0.0 is now out. It is free with basic effects, with advanced add-ons available called the Pro Adjustment Pack. As of 5/27 the general public does not know this yet, b...

More info from Topaz about this new direction: ________________________________________ Why did we create Filter Studio? Topaz Labs has always been about making products that provide value to two...

Topaz is working on a new structure for its software effects called Topaz Studio, and it’s now in open public beta! Topaz Studio enables Topaz to deliver new technology more rapidly than through the t...

Like most of you, I have several hard drives full of STUFF. I recently spent some time organizing a multitude of nested folders on one of these drives into something coherent, including isolating stra...

Works for me either way!

Here's the original, of the dreary day (plus a view when you pan to the left). http://www.plugsandpixels.com/forum/beachalt.jpg