Most photo editing programs offer multiple ways to convert to black and white and Photoshop Elements is no exception. In fact it has a great Black and White conversion tool which is marred by the very small preview images you get to work with. Additionally, there is no zoom feature so you’re

New to Photoshop CS4 is its Content-Aware Scale tool which allows you to transform an image in a way that you’ve never been able to do before in Photoshop. The technology itself has been around for some time and you may have been familiar with the website rsizr.com which offers content aware

One issue you’ll often encounter when you photograph tall buildings is a keystone effect caused by the angle at which you are forced to photograph from. The bottom of the building often looks wider than the top making it look out of proportion. Most photo editing programs have tools for fixin

When I was young, my dad told me that if at first you don’t succeed you should try and try again until you do. In today’s post, I am going to tell you why this adage relates to editing photos by working with filters in Photoshop Elements and in Photoshop. Step 1 Start by opening an im

Samantha Decker (see her Flickr Account here)shows us how she merged two photos together to get a better photographic memory of her trip to France. I recently took a trip to Europe with my parents, and throughout the whole trip, we only got one picture of all three of us, because I didn’t lik

In this post Edward Mercer of Digital Photography Darkroom shares a process for adding depth of field to sports images. You know how the Sport Photos look when taken by the Pros with those really expensive LONG lenses? The soft background and the sharp player? Well you can get the same effect with y

When you’re photographing popular places this summer, one issue you’ll face is getting a clean shot of what you’re photographing. Too often popular places are filled with tourists so it’s difficult to capture a scene without getting lots of people in it too. The solution is

Here it is, short and sweet. 10 techniques for working in Photoshop that you may not know existed: 1. Open a File without using the Menus Simple. Double click the grey background area of the Photoshop window and the File Open dialog appears – magic!? 2. If grey is Dull, Black is Wonderful and

If you’re a Photoshop and Lightroom user you may, like me, love the Clarity adjustment in Lightroom and wish it were available in Photoshop too. The Clarity slider lets you adjust the contrast in the midtones of an image which gives an over all sharpening and color boost to the image midtones

Guest blogger, Helen Bradley from ProjectWoman shows how you can create great looking frames for your images in Photoshop. When you’re displaying your photos on a blog or a website you’ll want them to look as good as they would if you had them framed on the wall. Here is a Photosho

In this post Nathan Pask takes a look at a technique to get HDR Style Images Using Layers in Photoshop. There currently seems to be a lot of interest in HDR or similar processes. What is HDR? Essentially, it’s about collecting a series of shots taken on a tripod at different exposures and al

Guest blogger Helen Bradley (from www.projectwoman.com) shows how to use the LAB color mode in Photoshop to give a punch to your photos. I like to see lovely saturated color in my photos but sometimes the color I capture just doesn’t do justice to the subject and it isn’t what I remember

Dan McGinty (see his work on Flickr)- one of our wonderful Forum members – submitted this tutorial on how to create a bubble portrait using Photoshop CS3. Got a tip or tutorial to share? Post it in the tutorials section of our forum. Upon request I am posting a step by step how to on a recent

One method of color correction that I like to use is one that I learnt from Photoshop gurus, Dan Margulis and Taz Tally – any errors in this process are mine and not theirs. The process relies on reading data from the image and then adjusting the numbers that the image provides. It’s a w

Here’s how to make eyes POP in three steps using Photoshop. 1. Duplicate the background layer and rename it ‘Natalie’s Eye Pop’ (of course). 2. Select the dodge tool and lighten the iris. Stay away for the thin, darker, perimeter of the iris and the pupil. I generally set t

The Gradient Maps tool has a serious side in creating custom black and white conversions and a more frivolous one in adding color to an image. I’ll show you how to use it for both purposes. Before we start a word about how the Gradient Map works. It is an adjustment so you can find it on the A

One of the most disappointing things that can happen to you as a photographer is to have a once in lifetime chance to take a photograph of something and to have the weather let you down. So, instead of luscious blue skies you’ll get grey or dull skies in your image. You can replace the sky in

One of the most popular searches involving Photoshop on the web is, perhaps not unsurprisingly, for free Photoshop brushes. Photoshop brushes can be used for a range of editing and creative tasks and while it’s fun to find and download great looking brushes it’s also possible to create

While there are lots of ways that you can convert an image into black and white in Photoshop sometimes you want to remove some of the color but not all of it. One method to do this, is to use a tool such as an adjustment layer to remove the saturation from the image or to apply a black to white grad

Step 1 Open a new image and duplicate the background layer by right clicking it and choose Duplicate Layer. Click this new top layer and choose Filter > Noise > Median and set the radius to around 4 – 5 pixels. You want to see a general softening of the image with the beginnings of loss