You have a digital camera and hopefully you are happy with the quality of the photos it takes but did you know that you can considerably improve these images just by performing very simple and basic editing commands in programs like Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Paint Shop Pro and Gimp etc? What’s more you don’t need to shoot in RAW in order to perform these adjustments as they can be performed on Jpeg and TIFF or in fact any image format.

Before we start editing photos though we should first make sure our monitor and software is set-up correctly as if these don’t reproduce colours accurately we can’t adjust our photos accurately and what might look nice on our monitor may look horrible on someone else’s. This process is called calibration.

So you want to buy a new camera? Congratulations digital camera have plummeted in price over the past few years and the quality of the images and the features of the cameras just keeps getting higher and higher, but which camera whould you buy?

To the uninitiated buying a digital camera can feel like a daunting prospect, should you buy Nikon, Canon or Fuji? Should you buy a compact, bridge or DSLR? How many megapixels are enough and just what features do you really need to look for in a camera? In the following article I'll cover the various types of camera out there and discuss the merits and pitfalls of each and expose a few myths along the way so that hopefully by the end, you'll have a better idea of what camera is right for you.