Is showing your blog more love among your top resolutions for 2012? Start a new year of blog dedication by learning some important basics to make photos and collages stand out on the page. Pugly Pixel's Photoshop tutorial on image background extractions and how to use layers may sound intimidating, but the how-to is so carefully explained that even Photoshop newbies can get a handle on this Read more

For the photographer that's a part-time gadget fiend, Adobe has launched a cloud-based service called Carousel, which lets users view, edit, and store photos across various devices. The $60-a-year subscription service will be available for Mac and iOS devices later this month. Any photos imported into Carousel's photo library or added directly through an iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch are Read more

Among the plethora of free online photo editing sites, there's Aviary. This site allows you to upload your pics, add cool filters and effects, crop, correct colors, fix blemishes, red eye, and even whiten your subject's teeth. Aviary is even opening up its API to developers so they can bring you more awesome apps using the free editing tools! It's super simple to use, so go ahead and give it some Read more

If you aren't into parading around in a killer costume this Halloween, I totally understand (but if you are, be sure to post your pics in our community!). Coming up with an original idea and pulling it off in the hopes of impressing your friends for one night can be a bit stressful, so instead of feeling like a Debbie Downer at your BFF's Halloween fete, just smile for the camera and take heart Read more

Named as one of the 10 best free online photo editing websites, Picnik definitely comes in handy when you want to edit photos on the fly. Since all of your pics can be stored and shared in "the cloud," you can easily edit your photos in a few clicks from any web browser. Google already has its own photo-editing software in Picasa, but it's expanding the growing family by welcoming Picnik to the Read more

I've featured other free online photo editing sites in the past, and Citrify is a worthy addition to the lineup. Edit your pics from any computer that supports Flash — Mac OS, Windows, Linux — by reducing glare, wrinkles, shine, and hue, along with some simple effects like sketch and watercolor. Citrify is easy to use, and did I mention totally free? Yeah, free. Do you have a cool website Read more

Add this to your already-expanding list of free online photo- and video-editing websites, but one that provides endless entertainment in the process: Masher. Not only can you upload your videos and edit them for free, put together an impressive photo slideshow of your last shindig (and set it to music), but you can browse through free clips from sites like BBC Motion Gallery and Rip Curl to add Read more

There are a ton of things you can do with your digital photos and a photo editor besides just adjusting light and focus. You can make them into movie stills, or turn them into Lomo works of art. I happen to like the aged look, and it's always fun to turn them into Polaroids, but if you aren't using Poladroid, this can take forever to make the effect yourself. But whether you use effects in Read more