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THE ASUS PA249Q. is an LCD display with an LED backlight that offers ISP 10-bit, a very smooth response, and covers 99 percen of the Adobe RGB spectrum. It will [...]

LG ELECTRONICS is the first to offer a new pro-graphics LCD display with LED backlighting'. It also has the wide Adobe RGB color width, and will adjust to the lower [...]

ALWAYS ENJOY TRYING out the best new high-end products. It's fun, but more important it tells me how good the best performance can be. But when reviewing color management tools [...]

WHILE SOME, LIKE me, like to spend hours working on an image in their digital darkroom, quite a few photographers express a desire to process photographs into good-quality digital files [...]

I usually do not write reports on new computers, but the new 2011 Apple Mac mini (www.apple.com) is an exception. It is not because it has the fastest CPU, as [...]

Pigment inks, CD disc printing, and moderate cost have kept me a Loyal user of Epson Stylus Photo printers. I attribute this to the different set of ink colors compared [...]

In this month's column David Brooks takes a brief recess on answering reader mail to address a topic that is the subject of many queries he receives--getting effective scans from [...]

It has been some time since an entirely new hardware and software display color management system was introduced. X-Rite, the world's largest color management manufacturer, now has a new i1Display [...]

Digital Help is designed to aid you in getting the most from your digital, photography, printing, scanning, and image creation. Each month, David Brooks provides solutions to problems you might [...]

Digital Help is designed to aid you in getting the most from your digital photography, printing, scanning, and image creation. Each month, David Brooks provides solutions to problems you might [...]

Digital Help is designed to aid you in getting the most from your digital photography, printing, scanning, and image creation. Each month, David Brooks provides solutions to problems you might [...]

A Shutterbug reader, Tracy Valleau, e-mailed me, suggesting that I take a look at the 24' widescreen Dell UltraSharp U2410 LCD display with 1920x1200 pixel resolution. What makes it suitable [...]

A new CanoScan flat-bed photo scanner, the 9000F, has an exceptionally high 9600x9600 optical resolution. It's priced right, with a list of $249, but how well does it work and [...]

Scanning is most effective when hardware and software work together. It's a bit like some black-and-white film developers that mix Metol and hydroquinone for a super-additive outcome. They work much [...]

I've been testing and reporting on film scanners for almost 20 years, and names like Imacon, Kodak, Nikon, Microtek, and UMAX all come to mind. A more recent entrant is [...]

LaCie recently began offering a new set of high-performance LCD displays, dubbed their 700 Series. First of all, the screens are high-performance, fine-resolution displays like few I have tested and [...]

Adobe's Photoshop Elements favors the majority of the photo community, those who often get involved with the craft as they begin the family portion of their lives. Some do become [...]

One of the most important aspects of this product package is that it's the first to offer ideal color reproduction for digital photography in an integrated package at a cost [...]

Q One quick question regarding monitors: should I look at a 27' model? As to software, I am still locked into either Aperture or CS4 because of the plug-ins I [...]

DIGITAL help is designed to aid you in getting the most from your digital photography, printing, scanning, and image creation. Each month, David Brooks provides solutions to problems you might [...]

DIGITAL HELP is designed to aid you in getting the most from your digital photography, printing, scanning, and image creation. Each month, David Brooks provides solutions to problems you might [...]

DIGITAL HELP is designed to aid you in getting the most from your digital photography, printing, scanning, and image creation. Each month, David Brooks provides solutions to problems you might [...]

I may have the perfect solution for the disabled vet. I am an amateur astronomer with a number of telescopes. Meade makes and made a variety of scopes, the 2000 [...]

If you are a serious digital photographer you probably have a good D-SLR camera. And you expect it will capture sharp, finely focused, high-quality photographic images. It follows that the [...]

I often get questions about how to store digital image files safely and securely. Although there have been a lot of options, all of them have involved compromises. Recently, however, [...]

Q. First of all, thank you for your comments on flat-bed scanners in the January, 2011, issue of Shutterbug. I've had a rather frustrating experience using my CanoScan 8600F with [...]

Q I am a professional photographer, and while I currently Duse a Windows machine, the recent decision from Microsoft to end support for XP has left me looking at all [...]

Q I have been meaning to write to you regarding the problem many of your readers seem to have with legacy equipment not being able to be used on newer [...]

Q I'm a photo enthusiast and enjoy editing my photos. I switched to Lightroom 5 several months ago and I'm learning the Library and Develop modules. I also make my [...]

Q I'm looking for a monitor that can be easily switched between RGB at 80-90 CD/m2 and sRGB at 120-140 CD/m2. In the December, 2013, issue you wrote a review [...]

DIGITAL HELP is designed to aid you in getting the most from your digital photography, printing, scanning, and image creation. Each month, David Brooks provides solutions to problems you might [...]

Q Here's a follow-up to my saga with Spyder3Elite and its replacement X-Rite ilDisplay Pro. The version of X-Rite out of the box was 14.x.y. While it was easy to [...]

If I remember correctly, you use Apple products primarily, so I'm wondering if you could recommend a good laptop for photo editing. I have two desktop computers-one Windows 7 Pro, [...]

Q I use a Dell PC with Windows 7 (64). I have 8GB of RAM and three 3TB hard drives. The room is quite dark with one fluorescent overhead light [...]

Q When I switched from a PC to a MacBook Pro 18 months ago, I got the guys at the Apple Store (Genius Bar) to copy all my photos into [...]

Canon versus Epson for digital printing-any thoughts? In addition to print quality, how do they compare in terms of ink consumption and the cost of processing? TOM HENNESSY VIA E-MAIL [...]

Q I've spent the past couple of days going back through my 'Shutterbug' and 'Photoshop User' articles on monitors, calibration, etc., and have also spent some more time trying to [...]

Q Today, for the first time, I got a screen 'warning' notice from my Epson R1800 printer. From the brief Internet search I did, apparently the ink pads need to [...]

Q Although I religiously read your column each month I do not recall previously seeing the 140.0 CD/m2 white luminance recommended setting for my display for editing images targeted at [...]

Q I work mainly in black and white using an iMac G5 (OS X Tiger 10.1) with Photoshop Elements 4 (PSE4) and Nik Silver Efex Pro and 'the Hidden Power [...]

Q Because of your recommendations of the Mac mini, I'm considering going with one, perhaps even two-one for photo and video editing and one for music recording and editing. The [...]

Q I've written to you before about issues with my Multisync P221W monitor. All is well now, with a new monitor that works fine. My issue involves calibration for black [...]

Q I have a question regarding choosing the correct inkjet printer paper profile. My setup: Mac Pro running OS X 10.6.8; Photoshop CS4; Epson 2200 printer. When printing from Photoshop [...]

Q: I have been advising a friend about monitors and she is hung up about glare from the screen. Can I you comment as to the four monitors you have [...]

Q: I am about to act on your advice again and have a quick question. While you often talk about the Dell UltraSharp U2410 I can't recall any mention of [...]

Q: When I put my Canon PowerShot G15 at its highest setting of 12MB for JPEGs, why is it when I transfer my file over to Elements 9 or Lightroom [...]

Q Your comments on the Mac mini being a great photo-editing computer have convinced me to get one to replace an old tired PC. My plan was to purchase the [...]

Q I have been scanning several old family photos, black and white and old Kodachrome slides, and copying them to CDs. Family members have asked for these and will want [...]

Q I have a new Dell UltraSharp U3011 display. I hooked it up to a Mac mini 2010 with Snow Leopard and calibrated it with Spyder4Elite. The problem is, my [...]

Q I've done various searches on the Internet, but can't find the answer to the following: when demosaicing sensor data from a Bayer array (e.g., ACR), does the data from [...]