In this Topaz Star Effects tutorial we are going to look at how you can quickly boost sunsets in your images. Topaz Star Effects is a powerful plugin that is available for Photoshop or Lightroom. This plugin can be used to enhance and manipulate various light sources from within your photographs, these can be street…
There are many digital file formats for photographic images, but there are two types that tend to dominate, JPEG and Raw. In this JPEG vs Raw article we will look a the pros and cons for each, to help you decide which format is the best choice for you. JPEG files If you’re looking for…
Whilst the majority of landscape images you see are in full colour, black and white landscape photography can bring real impact and drama to your images. If you’re shooting in great weather there’s many good reasons to stick with colour images; you get the natural tones of land and sea, and the wonderful colour palette…
Duotone images, as the name suggests, are comprised of only two colours. Technically they can be any two colours, but a classic duotone image is made from a monochrome black/white image; with another highlight colour added to create the two tones. In this tutorial we’re going to illustrate how to quickly create a duotone image…
Introduced in Lightroom 5, the Radial Filter is a important new addition to the processing tools available from within Lightroom’s develop module. A great way to create localised enhancements, it offers precise control over specific areas of your images. In this tutorial we’re going to look at how you can get the most out of…
In this Photoshop HDR tutorial we’re going to look at the basic requirements needed for a genuine High Dynamic Range (HDR) image. Please note that I’m using Photoshop CS6 for this tutorial. HDR photography has proved massively popular in the digital photography era. It’s safe to say it can be a contentious subject, with a…
In this tutorial we’re going to look at replacing the sky in Photoshop. It’s always annoying when you’ve got an image that you like, but the sky is flat and dull, to the point where it may be ruining the shot. We’re going to look at a quick and easy way to rectify the situation.…
In this Color Efex Pro tutorial we are going to look at some of the various image processing options available from within this plugin. Color Efex Pro from Nik Software enables you to quickly correct specific colours in your image, and make global creative adjustments via a whole host of digital filters. I’m not going…
The beautifully designed presets by VSCO are gaining in popularity by the day, both with professional and amateur photographers. In this VSCO Film tutorial we’re going to look at how to effectively work with these presets. To put it simply, the presets from VSCO have one primary purpose — to simulate the look of images…
Lightroom presets are a great way to speed up your photo development workflow. They enable you to store a whole host of predefined development settings that can be applied in a single click via the preset. They can also be applied to a whole group of images at the same time, so the benefits are…