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…
VSCO Film Tutorial 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…
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…
Iris Blur was introduced in Photoshop CS6, alongside Field Blur and Tilt-Shift. In this Iris Blur Photoshop tutorial we are going to use to quickly create a stylised image with the focus on a particular part of the image. Here is the original shot we are going to work with, it’s a reasonable shot, but…
Stylish High-Key Photography In this tutorial we are going to create a dramatic high-key portrait using Lightroom and Photoshop. The end result is not intended to be a completely conventional high-key image, we want a more stylised image with some localised contrast. High-key photography is generally characterised by having the majority of the image with…
If you’re new to Lightroom, understanding the differences between your catalogs, folders and collections is essential to achieving a smooth and hassle-free workflow. Lightroom effectively acts as a database for your images, you can easily get by with just one catalog and a number of folders, or you can combine these with collections for deeper…
In this tutorial we’re going to look at digital cross processing in Photoshop. Cross processing in an effect that used to be achieved by deliberately processing various types of film with the ‘wrong’ chemical, in order to produce various types of creative colour effects. For this tutorial I’m going to use an image I captured…
In the tutorial we are going to look at split toning in Silver Efex Pro 2 from NIK Software. Split toning used to be a film-based technique in the pre-digital photography days, but we now have a number of ways to digitally create artistic split tone images, whilst it’s perfectly possible to crate split tones…
Most photographers, including myself, spend most of our time ensuring our images are as clean and free as possible from noise/grain. There are occasions, however, when you may want to add grain to simulate a old-style film effect to add a vintage and textured look to your image. In the ‘old’ pre-digital days this would…