Category Archives: Reviews

AutoCollage 2008

Posted on June 27, 2010 by Allan Jackson

The other day I was visiting the Microsoft website and I discovered a couple of interesting little programs including AutoCollage 2008. It is a program which will produce various sizes of blended collages from the pictures in a folder on … Continue reading →

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Fun with PhotoScape

Posted on June 19, 2010 by Allan Jackson

Last week I downloaded the latest addition of FastStone, my favourite image viewer. I like it because it is just as fast as its name implies and one of the quickest ways I know of to view a folder of … Continue reading →

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ProShow Gold 4.1

Posted on May 28, 2010 by Allan Jackson

A theme I come back to from time to time is what to do with the many digital pictures I take.

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D90 Rocks!!

Posted on May 27, 2010 by Allan Jackson

I went the el-cheapo Sunday afternoon matinee at the Barnyard Theatre at Gateway Centre in Durban, to see the show Rock Circus. The show was great but what made it even better for me was that the theatre management don’t … Continue reading →

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Worldwide Photowalk

Posted on January 11, 2010 by Allan Jackson

In one of the very early posts on this blog, I confided that I had been lucky enough to win the Durban section of Scott Kelby’s Worldwide Photowalk 2009. Continue reading →

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Wisdom

Posted on December 22, 2009 by Allan Jackson

I received the book Wisdom (Ideas), by Andrew Zuckerman, as a prize in our annual camera club Christmas bash. Continue reading →

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Triscape FxFoto

Posted on December 12, 2009 by Allan Jackson

While out and about on the web the other day, I heard tell of an image manipulation program called FxFoto. Continue reading →

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Blurry good?

Posted on November 21, 2009 by Allan Jackson

I was fiddling with the trial version of Nik Software’s Silver Efex Pro Photoshop plug-in and came up with this version of one of my favourite pictures, after trying a few different effects. Silver Efex seems to be a great … Continue reading →

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The Hot Shoe Diaries

Posted on October 25, 2009 by Allan Jackson

I may have mentioned that one of the most exciting developments in my photography in recent times was the discovery of off-camera flash. Or, if I wanted to be strictly accurate, my recent rediscovery of off-camera flash.. I was browsing … Continue reading →

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Photo Icons

Posted on September 20, 2009 by Allan Jackson

I might well have ended up with more how-to books, if my eye hadn’t been caught by the two-volume Photo Icons set. Continue reading →

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