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Digital Manipulation

Lighting Effects

by Russ Burden

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Making Sense of NIK Software Products: What Specific NIK Products do, and Which Programs Do you Need?

by John Bentham

John Betham explains the difference between the various Nik software programs...

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Narrow Your Depth of Field

by Russ Burden

Create a shallow depth of field effect using Gaussian blur

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Portrait Diversity

by Russ Burden

Use 3 simple tweaks to give your portraits 3 different looks

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Shorten the Sky

by Russ Burden

Reduce the amount of bland space in your skies to heighten their impact

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Target Specific Areas

by Russ Burden

Use layer masks to restrict exposure or creative adjustments to given image areas.

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The Beauty of a Scan

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These macro photos are of Dogwood Blossoms. Instead of a camera to make these images I used a flatbed scanner...

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Turn Images into Panoramas Using Photoshop.

by Christian Michaels

Shoot a series if images by rotating your tripod head in a level, linear fashion with the horizon.  Put the resulting images in a folder.  Go into Photoshop > File > Automate. . . . , navigating to your folder of images.

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Wedding Webinar - Editing Photos, How to Choose the Best Shot

by John Bentham

The stylish photo above shot by Lensbaby inventor and CEO, Craig Strong has a dreamy quality to it which is what the Lensbaby does best. You can see the classic Lensbaby Sweet Spot center, surrounded by the soft focus fall off front and back, and the soft breadth of focus side to side. Craig culled through a number of frames to pull this one one shot where the center sharpness was just right in addition to the positioning of the bride, groom and priest.

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Your Point and Shoot Camera ñ Photoshop Content Aware and NIK Tonal ContrastF

by John Bentham

Getting rid of unwanted objects in an image used to be a huge job. Now, with a few clicks of a button, it is an easy fix.

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