Raffy Paredes

On 3-D, Father’s Day, and other Images–

Readers familiar with how characters seem to pop out of the screen in a 3-D movie may be interested in checking out a photo exhibit that I chanced upon last week. This is the “Nazareno” series exhibit by Jake Verzosa at the Manila Collective Photospace – Café at the [...]

Sharing Images (6)–
The column has been receiving a lot of photo submissions lately from new readers and even more from previously featured ones. Today, we will be dispensing with the usual special feature in order to provide more space for our new contributors.
IT professional Melvin Mamado writes that he started on photography 10 years ago [...]

Sharing Images (5)–
Readers who are interested in studying the data patterns of their photographs may want to try out the freeware, Smart Photo Statistics. This program compiles the data such as the aperture, exposure, focal length, image size, ISO, number of pixels, metering mode, flash use, and camera model from a target group of images. [...]

On Mother’s Day and other Images (2)–

Whenever I receive an image from readers that get me curious about how it was done, I immediately look at the exif data of the photograph. This is the set of data that digital cameras attach to every picture that is taken. It includes the make of the camera, [...]

Sharing Images (4)–
Our first freeware feature today is the Tintii Photo Filter, a tool for applying color effects to your pictures. The software removes all colors from the original image and gives the user a choice of which colors he/she may want to retain. The rest of the picture remains in black and white. Colors, [...]

On Mother’s Day and other Images–
Readers who use film cameras and scan their negatives may be interested in the Polaroid’s Dust and Scratches Removal software. This is a program to clean image dust after the scanning process. How is it different from other photo editors? Instead of just blurring the dust, the PDSR analyzes the [...]

Shark Slaughter and other Images–
While searching for a particular software last week, I came across one that offers a very unique way of putting together a photo collection.  This is the freeware Photopolis. What’s different about it? Photopolis presents your images like buildings in a city. It groups the images by the week and assembles [...]