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Understanding the Histogram

Understanding the Histogram

In this article, I will shed some light on some useful ways to read and understand the histogram attached to all of the images you make. This lesson will describe how to effectively read a histogram as well as provide several examples of how to solve difficult exposure situations.


Preparing Files for Print Ch2

In this article we continue the discussion by Lorraine Donegan. Here she reviews the feedback from the print providers and prepress technicians she surveyed and goes into further detail about how designers should prepare their files prior to print.


Preparing Files for Print

As technology in printing and publishing changes, the role and responsibility of the graphic designer also changes. Prepress and production have become part of the creative process, whether we like it or not.


How to Write an Artists’ Statement

How to Write an Artists' Statement

Your artist’s statement is the basis by which your work is perceived by the viewing public. It is important that you understand the impact your words have upon these viewers and potential buyers.
Ask yourself whether you want to be seen as a political artist, a craftsperson, a landscape photographer, a photojournalist, a portraitist, or even [...]


Adobe Save for Web

Adobe Save for Web

In this quick video you will learn best practices for saving files for the web and other mobile devices using Adobe’s Save for Web & Devices dialog.
~ John Trefethen
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How To Make Pictorialism

How To Make Pictorialism

Pictorialism, a movement best known for the work of Robert Demachy, Alfred Stieglitz, George Seeley, Julia Margaret Cameron, Frank Sutcliffe, Gertrude Käsebier, Peter Henry Emerson, and Ken Rosenthal focused their gaze but not their cameras at the natural landscapes of their time.
While most photographers were capturing the realism their tool so naturally recorded, the Pictorialists [...]


Connotation vs. Denotation

Connotation vs. Denotation

The capture of light, translated onto a picture plane as line, shape and form presented in a two-dimensional object, is the photograph, or the denotation of reality. What the viewer feels, understands, or reads into the picture is the connotative meaning.