If you have a photograph where your white balance is not right and you have an unwanted colour cast on the image then curves are a very quick and easy way to fix this.
Open your image in Photoshop.
At the bottom of your layers menu select the half white half black circle - from the menu [...]
This tutorial assumes a basic knowledge of Photoshop. If you aren’t sure what a healing tool is (for example) then take a look at our previous Photoshop lessons to familiarise yourself with the very basic techniques which we use in this tutorial.
Yup, it’s possible! With patience and care you can turn your photos into images [...]
Try this one with a very simple image the first time you do it, maybe something with a plain single colour background (like the image I have chosen to work with in this example).
Open your image in Photoshop.
Increase your canvas size to double the length that it is now. (Image > Canvas Size - make [...]
Here is a fun and funky effect to try with your photos in Photoshop. You could use it on a friends birthday card or maybe a holiday greeting card!
Open you image in Photoshop.
Right click on your background layer in your layers menu and “duplicate layer”
Then click back onto your background layer - press Ctrl+A (select [...]
I have my trial of Adobe CS5 and have been playing around with various features. Soon we will be sharing some indepth tutorials on the magic that can be conducted using Photoshop CS5 in photography and as a form of surreal manipulation. In the mean time , here is a taste of my exploration of [...]
Not all of us have access to an off camera flash in order to create some dramatic lighting effects in our images, but luckily for those of us who want to try out special lighting on our photos Photoshop comes to the rescue and we are able to carefully manipulate and place a lighting source [...]
UDMA
You will notice that some of Lexars CF (compact flash) cards are adorned with the letters UDMA. UDMA stands for Ultra Direct Memory Access and these four letters are a highlight for users looking for high performance in CF cards.
UDMA refers to a new process of moving data from the card onto your alternate storage [...]
Abstract photography focuses on the photographer being able aware of angles, colours, shapes and textures in the scenes that they are photographing.
These abstract subjects could be in the most obvious places sometimes and other times we have to go hunting for them.
Careful zooming and tactfully angling your camera can render an everyday object completely unrecognizable [...]
Clay Enos is an American Photographer with a broad spectrum of genres.
He has a mobile Streetstudio which he sets up in the street and takes photographs of passers by. He has traveled London, Amsterdam, Paris, Berlin, Black Rock City and Bangkok to mention a few - always with his camera as his trusted travel companion.
He [...]
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