X-Ray Double Exposure in Photoshop
In this tutorial we’ll learn how to us the power of Adobe Photoshop to create a cool X-Ray style double exposure image showing the outline of the outside of a building, but revealing [More]
Retouch
Retouching Snow in Photoshop
My favourite place on this incredible planet is Iceland, and in my capacity as a travel photographer and big Iceland fan I’ve perfected the way I deal with snow in my photos. In this tutorial [More]
Faking Golden Hour in Adobe Lightroom
We’re told time and time again in landscape photography – there’s only two times each day when you can successfully shoot a landscape! The golden hour in the morning and again in [More]
Create a Surreal Portrait in Photoshop
In this video I'll be demonstrating how, with a mask, a filter and a Blend mode you can easily create a surreal portrait in Photoshop. [More]
HDR in Lightroom
I use HDR a fair bit and have noticed that people don’t quite know what it is so here’s my attempt at explaining before I show you how to do it in Adobe Lightroom. Firstly, HDR stands for High [More]
Create a Dancing Shadow in Photoshop
Here’s a nifty little tutorial for you. I’ll show you how to add a little extra to your photos with a quirky shadow that can represent the person photographed. I’ve used this a few [More]
Restore a Sky Lost to Over-Exposure in Lightroom and Photoshop
Whilst on a recent travel photography task in Havana, Cuba I encountered a problem in balancing exposure. To overcome the loss of detail in the sky there are several things I could have done, [More]
Photoshop Blur – Save Mask to Channels
If you've used the Blur Gallery's Tilt Shift, Path Blur, Iris Blur and Field Blur you may have noticed a check box called 'Save Mask to Channels', in this post I'll take a look at just some of the possibilities this opens up [More]
Advanced Compositing With The PixelSquid 3D Photoshop Extension
In this tutorial we'll look at the advanced features of the plugin, where we can import a high-resolution layered Photoshop PSD file that replaces the low-resolution preview. As well as being highly detailed, the PSD version gives us the ability to blend the 3D object into the scene using specially created layers that allow us to easily control the colour and tone as well as being able to quickly select and adjust the different components of the object. [More]
Creating a Soft Glow Effect in Photoshop
Hi there I am Sian an amateur photography and fashion blogger here to share some simple techniques I use to enhance my photos. This tutorial is about turning a shadowed image into a soft glow portrait. [More]
Get Pouty with Photoshop Fix
Adobe have released a host of apps, one of these is Photoshop Fix. There's some amazing power in this app but one of the tools that has grabbed the attention (good and bad) if the Face tool. Very quickly we can change our portrait to be a little more pouty. [More]
Changing Summer to Autumn in Photoshop or Lightroom
In this post I take an image taken in the Summer and transform it to one taken in the Autumn with just a few sliders in Adobe Camera Raw or Lightroom. [More]
Photoshop Blur Gallery – Iris Blur
Adding blur to an image can help to give your image some depth, and draw interest to certain aspects of the composition. Photoshop CC has some great new blurs in the Blur Gallery, we already looked at the Path Blur, this time lets look at Iris Blur. [More]
Soft Glow – Gaussian Blur Photoshop Quick Tip
Gaussian was a brilliant mathematician and developed an algorithm that works amazingly well for creating blurs. I would be happy to explain the algorithm, however 1. I don’t really have the space here and 2. I wouldn’t know where to start. What I do know is that for a very long time it was the go to blur for a number of effects. [More]
Create a ‘Splinter’ or “Shattered’ Portrait Effect in Photoshop
Using selections and the arrow keys you can create this Splinter or Shattered effect in Photoshop in no time at all... and it's quite good fun too! [More]
