Underwater photography on the cheap

This week's focus is on underwater images—a bit of a primer on how to get into underwater photography on the cheap, and then a demonstration of some simple editing techniques in iPhoto to make those underwater pictures look their best.

Google updates Picasa Web Albums siteGoogle adds face-recognition and other news features to it Picasa Web Albums photo-sharing Web site.
Nikon’s D90 SLR shoots Hi-Def movie clipsIn addition to still images, the 12.1-megapixel camera from Nikon will also be able to film 1,280-by-720-pixel video at 24 frames per second when it arrives next month.

Review: Photoshop Lightroom 2.0
With Photoshop Lightroom 2.0, Adobe has smartly upgraded an already-strong product. But what’s most impressive about the update is how smoothly it works with you to organize and edit your photos; by focusing on improving the little things, Adobe has made an already good program even more usable.
Review: Flip Mino portable camcorder
Although the video quality produced by the Flip Mino is anything but pristine, this affordable and useful camera—with its go-anywhere, shirt-pocket convenience and simple operation—could turn out to be one of your favorite gadgets.
Review: Mobile Fotos for iPhone
If you enjoy exploring photos from the larger Flickr community and don’t mind how many steps it takes you to get there, Mobile Fotos may prove satisfying. But the current version is plagued by a serious uploading flaw.
iP2F 1.0.3
This iPhoto plug-in for Flickr lets you set titles, tags and image descriptions for photos, assign them to photo sets or to Flickr pools, and quickly scale an entire batch of images to speed the upload process.
Review: Comic Touch for iPhone
Lots of nice touches and a good dose of humor help make Comic Touch a fun addition to your iPhone collection. However, you’ll need patience to figure out of all of the photo editor’s tricks.

Custom print sizes in iPhoto '08
The N-up and Sampler templates are gone from iPhoto '08. Use a custom print size to get close to their results.
The limits of iPhoto slideshows
Are iPhoto slideshows completely un-shareable? Limited, yes, un-shareable, no.
Creating iPhoto captions
iPhoto allows you to caption your pictures, but it crops your images in the process. There are other ways.
Digital Photo: Extreme vacation photography
Want to add some pizazz to those vacation snapshots? Derrick Story explains how to take your digital camera underwater or up into the sky and get photographs that'll wow the folks back home.
Digital Photo: How to buy a camera lens
Still using the lens that came with your digital SLR? Explore the creative possibilities of your camera by buying a new lens. Whether looking for a zoom lens or a prime lens, we'll show you what to look for when shopping.

The Apple of the future
The Apple of five years from now will most certainly be different from the Apple of today. But as Dan Moren suggests, it probably won’t be a future anybody can predict.
The 23rd Annual Editors' Choice Awards
Every year, Macworld editors see a mass of products, and every year, a few emerge from the crowd because of their innovation, value, or quality. Those are the ones that capture our annual Eddy Awards, given to our favorite products of the year. In 2007, 32 products caught our fancy. See if our favorites match yours.