Articles by Dan Moughamian

About Dan Moughamian (37 Articles)

Dan Moughamian is an experienced photographer and educator, and has worked with Adobe Photoshop since the early 1990s. He also has extensive experience with Photoshop Lightroom, Photoshop Elements, plugins from Nik software, and many other digital imaging products. As an educator, Dan's focus is to help photographers at all levels get the most from their digital workflows.

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Simulating Infrared Photos with Exposure 4 – Pt 1

24/02/2012

Introduction Plugin makers Alien Skin Software recently released Exposure 4, a new upgrade to their flagship photo-styling product for Photoshop and Lightroom. Exposure 4 can apply a wide range of [More]

Lightroom 4 Beta Quick Tip – Geotags

20/01/2012

You no doubt have heard the good news, that Adobe launched its public beta of Lightroom 4, and there’s plenty to be excited about! For this tutorial we’ll take a quick look at the brand [More]

Creating Fog with Topaz Labs Lens Effects

22/12/2011

Earlier this week, Topaz Labs announced a free upgrade (for existing users) to its Lens Effects plugin. One of the more interesting and useful features it offers is a simulated Fog Effect (who [More]

Stylized Black and White Photos with Topaz BW Effects

02/12/2011

This month I thought it would be fun to cover a Photoshop plugin that I discovered this summer, which has quickly become one of my favorites. Topaz BW Effects (from Topaz Labs) contains a wide range [More]

Depth of Field Effects with Photoshop Elements 10

22/09/2011

This week Adobe released the latest version of their prosumer photo editing package, Photoshop Elements 10. This new release offers several new features that are useful to photographers and [More]

Photoshop CS5 HUD Color Pickers

17/06/2011

One of the more useful improvements to Photoshop CS5 is the addition of the HUD (or Heads Up Display) Color Pickers. A bit of random trivia: this name was borrowed from military aviation. The idea is [More]

Streamlining Your Lightroom Workflow with Stacks

20/05/2011

It’s a problem most photographers face on a regular basis: you’ve got a subject or composition you’d like to focus on, but because weather conditions or other variables change [More]

Using Parametric Curves in ACR 6 to Improve Contrast

22/04/2011

When you need to improve the contrast in your raw photos, Parametric Curves are a great way to simplify the thought process and task of making a Curves adjustment. Instead of guessing or arbitrarily [More]

Creating a Soft Focus Vignette in Photoshop CS5

25/03/2011

For a prior tutorial, I demonstrated how to create a vignette effect around the subject of a photograph, using Lightroom 3. Today we’ll take a look at a subtly different technique, which [More]

Working with Lightroom 3 Vignettes

28/01/2011

For this tutorial we take a look at how the Post-Crop Vignette feature in Lightroom 3 helps us to add a bit of style to the image, but more importantly, it also helps to direct the viewer’s [More]

Using Shadows and Highlights Nondestructively in Photoshop

13/01/2011

The Shadows/Highlights adjustment allows you to perfect local areas of contrast in your scene, but unfortunately there is not currently an Adjustment Layer for Shadows/Highlights. Instead we'll create a Smart Object layer and integrate the adjustment into that layer (as a Smart Filter) so that we can revisit the settings as many times as we need to after saving the document. [More]