I really never took many pictures, but just now came into possession of a Sony NEX-5 with 18-55mm lens (the 5K/B kit.) At the moment I'm just familiarizing myself with basic photography skills, ...

A camera lens filter is pretty much what you’d expect: it’s a physical piece of glass that attaches to your camera’s lens, filters the light before it reaches the sensor and, typically, has an effect ...

Photoshop Blur filters are designed primarily for retouching images—to soften, haze, cloud, fuzz, or distort specific areas of a picture or the entire image. Backgrounds are often blurred out to ...

What Can the Lens Blur Tool Really Do? My bare-bones kitbag only contains a 50mm 1.8 STM Canon lens and a 10-18mm Zoom lens. Photoshop's Lens Blur feature, now part of the Camera ...

A quality ND filter (short for neutral density filter) cuts the amount of light coming into the camera without affecting the color or overall appearance of the image. While photographers often want ...

Swiss developer cf/x on Monday released Lens Filter, an iMovie plug-in that mimics a wide variety of the filters often placed in front of camera lenses to achieve a specific look. You can employ it on ...

Lens filters are an important tool for many DSLR photographers, but dealing with different diameter lenses, stepping-rings, square filter mounts and the rest can be frustrating and expensive. But now, ...