It seems like HDR or High Dynamic Range imagery is all the rage right now. There are lots of tools around for assembling an HDR image and, although Photoshop now has a tool to do this, PhotomatixPro is much more sophisticated and the results are much better, so I’ll show you how to use it. B

In this post Patrick Dean from NeutralDay.comexplores how to use Textures to enhance an image. If you’ve spent anytime at all exploring sites like Flickr, I’m sure you’ve notice a good many photographs that have a certain “vintage” look to them, a patina if you wi

If you’re looking to create a shallow depth of field in post production today food blogger Danny Jauregui from Food Bloggers Unite! shares some tips on how to create this effect. Food photography is currently dominated by rich images of mouth-watering food within blurry and atmospheric back

Here is a relatively easy Photoshop technique which, nonetheless, seems to amaze a lot of people when they see the results: making a subject float or fly. For maximum effectiveness you really need a tripod. Start by setting the camera up on the tripod and shoot your subject sitting or laying on some

In this Post Scott Wylie shares how he creates dreamy black and white skies in landscapes. In this article I’ll show you how to take a colour landscape image with white clouds against a blue sky and convert it into a black and white image with a high contrast sky using Adobe Photoshop CS4. We

Let’s trigger a stick of gelignite under our digital images. And maybe explode some myths. You’ve got a digital camera. Perhaps you’ve got an inkjet printer – one with great photo quality reproduction. Now you’re ambitions are beginning to take wings and you want

It’s easy to get complacent when shooting with a digital camera. It’s all so easy: line up the shot, press the button and move on. Get back to base and you download your collection of shots, maybe send some to friends over the Web, perhaps make some prints for the album. But take a good

This review of the ExpoDisc white balance filter comes to you from one of our regular readers and pro fashion photographer, Nathan Pask. You can find out more about him at www.nathanpask.com. A common problem for photographers is white balance. With so many different light sources such as daylight,

Food blogger Danny Jauregui from Food Bloggers Unite! shows us an alternative Burning and Dodging technique. Non-destructive burning & dodging is most often done with a 50% gray fill layer. Although using this method has worked for me in the past, I’ve found it difficult to predict what so

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve had the opportunity to test and review the Lenovo ThinkPad W700ds mobile workstation – a computer designed with creative types (like graphic artists and photographers) in mind. I’d heard about the W700ds when it first was announced – it was

Even with the incredible ranges of colors available to digital photographers and illustrators, there is still something magical and sophisticated about the stark simplicity of a black and white image. The lack of color allows the viewer to focus on elements like shadows and highlights without the di

Most articles on the RAW digital photo format will most likely be about how crazy you are not to be capturing your images in RAW format if your camera supports it. While I do tend to agree, there is more to RAW than just converting images to other file formats. Adobe’s Camera RAW (ACR) plug-in

We’ve received quite a bit of feedback from Post production readers asking us to look at the issue of sharpening photos. Sharpening is one of those everyday tasks that most photos can benefit from. In this post I’ll explain what sharpening is, when you should perform it and how to do it.

Today Mark Evans from Smash and Peas Photography Blog shares an explanation and starting points with Exposure Fusion. ‘Less is more’, or so the saying goes. But in this case, I guess its true; less effort and less time equals more productivity and and better results, what more could one

Sometimes black and very dark tones in a photo can appear a little weak or washed out. There are a lot of ways to correct this, but some methods can sometimes cause other unwanted changes in your photo. I’d like to present a way I came across recently to increase the density and saturation of

This is one in a series of articles on methods of salvaging what would otherwise be “ruined” photos. Stay tuned in the coming weeks for more. It has been said that the difference between an amateur photographer and a professional is that the professional never lets anyone see his bad sh

This is one in a series of articles on methods of salvaging what would otherwise be “ruined” photos. In a previous article, we looked at one way of salvaging an underexposed photo. (We may look at more ways in future articles.) Today let’s look at a method for salvaging an overexpo

Don’t have the budget to buy yourself a Ring Flash? Today one of our forum members Manzin (see some of his work here) shares a tutorial on how he created his own DIY Ring Flash. You like Ring Flashes but you can’t pay the price? I have a solution for you, and it doesn’t involve st

Today I’m pleased to present an introduction to High Dynamic Range Imaging (or HDR PHotography) that has kindly been written by Jason Bouwmeester.  An Introduction to High Dynamic Range Imaging (HDR) HDR, or High Dynamic Range Imaging seems to be all the rage these days. HDRI is describe

Today Yanik Chauvin from Image-Y shares how he uses EV Compensation. I’ve been using the EV (Exposure Value) button on my camera more than any of the other buttons so I thought I would share with you why and when I use it. Remember that I shoot with a Nikon so shutter speed and aperture are