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Articles by James Abbott

About James Abbott (4 Articles)
James Abbott is an award-winning editorial, advertising and commercial photographer based near Cambridge, UK. He also works as a freelance journalist and is a qualified photography lecturer. He has taught professional photography and Photoshop techniques to both beginners and advanced photographers.

Create realistic light leaks in Photoshop

27/01/2017

Digital photography is crisp, clean and overall much more consistent than analogue photography. This is great for the most part, but like most things digital results can quickly become too perfect. [More]

Create the Orton Effect in Photoshop

02/07/2016

Learn how to create the ethereal Orton Effect in Photoshop. The technique blends blur and sharpness together for a dreamy effect that looks amazing with landscape photography. Blending blur with an [More]

Wet Plate Collodion Effect in Photoshop

09/06/2016

The wet plate collodion process is becoming increasingly popular as photographers search for more unique, and equally eye-catching ways of taking photos. This almost abandoned technique was once the [More]