New here?

Joining Pare and Focus for the first time? Great!  If you want to take better pictures without a lot of headache, hair pulling, and money spent, you’re definitely in the right place.

Pare and Focus is a growing resource on beginning digital photography and photo editing. My goal is to make all of my recommendations simple, and inexpensive so your new hobby can be a blast, not a pain.

Check out the Who’s behind Pare and Focus? section in the sidebar for more info on what I do here.

Want to know where to get started?

If you’re interested in free photo editing,  check out “4 Differences Between GIMP and Photoshop that Matter” Or take a look at “Free Photo Editors Compared” for a comparison of 5 free desktop and online photo editors. Ready to take the plunge and get GIMP? Check out the GIMP Quick Start Guide at the top of this page.

Want to know more about digital photography? Learn about getting color right or choosing the best file format for your pictures.

Looking for a place to show off your photos? Join us in the Pare and Focus group on Flickr.

Have fun playing with the site too. There’s all kinds of buttons» , expanding notes, roll over image effects and interactive stuff going on. These things have practical uses -roll over effects let me show before and after images effectively, and expanding notes let me cram more information into every post- but I have to admit they make Pare and Focus really fun too.

My next post is part of a series on color in digital photography. This one will tackle color in composition. I’ve found some cool resources, and I think it’s going to be a really interesting post. Interested? Subscribe to stay on top of the Color Series and every new post.

Like the site? Think I’m missing something? Have a question or a suggestion? Let me know in the comments.

Thanks for visiting,

Kat

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