Visually Striking Images Meld Photography and Digital Art
Photographer Alex Hyner creates multi-layered photographs sourced from thousands of images he's taken of skies from all around the world.
This Video Explains All 27 Photoshop Blending Modes in Detail
There are 27 different blending modes in Photoshop, and unless you're a real retouching junkie, chances are good you haven't explored each and every one of them in detail. But have no fear, to paraphrase an old Apple ad, "there's a [YouTube tutorial] for that."
Canon Patents a Multi-Layer Image Sensor with Five Layers Instead of Three
Remember the advent of multi-blade shaving razors? Single blades gave way to two blades and then three, four and five. There are even a six+ blade razors out there in case you want a REALLY close shave. Well, a fresh Canon sensor patent has us wondering if the same thing isn't happening to digital sensors.
Canon has patented a Foveon-like sensor before -- a type of sensor, initially implemented by Sigma, that uses individual layers for detecting red, green and blue -- but the company's newest multi-layer sensor patent shows not three, but five layers.
Scratching the Color Filter Array Layer Off a DSLR Sensor for Sharper B&W Photos
In October 2012, astrophotographer Raymond Collecutt of Whangarei, New Zealand shared a new (and risky) idea he was playing around with: converting a standard DSLR into a sharper monochrome camera for photographing space.