Jesús Ramirez from Photoshop Training Channel often shows us awesome Photoshop tricks and tutorials. In his latest video, he shares 5 quick Photoshop tricks in only 90 seconds. All of them only take a few moments to set up, and you can use them right now to speed up your workflow. 1. Select colors from other applications 1. Select colors from other applications With the Eye Dropper Tool, you can select colors from the applications outside of Photoshop....

Some of us are struggling just to maintain our ever-growing archive of photographs and video footage. Every few years, we have to update all our drives to newer, faster, higher capacity and more reliable ones to try to ensure we don’t lose anything. And for most of us, that’s only a few terabytes. But what if you could store half a petabyte, indefinitely? Well, technically, it’s 13.8 billion years, but for all intents and purposes, that’s pretty much indefinitely....

The 50mm lens, often called the “nifty fifty”, is a popular lens. The f/1.8 version for Nikon, Canon and many other brands is very inexpensive and has been a staple of photographers for decades. Personally, I think it should be the first lens a new camera owner buys after they get frustrated with their kit lens. In this video from Shutterbug Mag, photographer Jordan Matter offers up seven reasons why he feels a 50mm lens is not only vital but may be the only lens you need....

After Instagram (and Facebook) recently put out notifications in the app stating that they wanted access to your data to “Help keep Instagram free of charge“, I stumbled across an experiment by the folks over at Signal. Now, Signal is obviously a competitor to Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp – at least as far as their messaging abilities go – but the results of that experiment are quite interesting. They involve the personal data collected by Facebook and the services it owns and how it’s used for advertising....

“It looks like something out of a Peter Jackson movie,” says one commenter. “A wormhole portal to another dimension” suggests another. Various musings about an aircraft going down, a rocket launch, meteors and alien invasions ensue. But what exactly did residents of Lazy Mountain, Alaska photograph? From the images, it appears to be a column of smoke reaching down to the horizon. However, it looks nothing like any normal aircraft contrail that you would normally see....