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How to Size Images for Online Sharing
Whether you’re running a photography business, or sharing your photography on the web with friends, it’s important to know how to properly size your images for various uses. Generally speaking the...
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How to Add a Texture Overlay to Your Images for a Stunning Effect
Adding a texture overlay to your images is an amazing creative tool. It adds another dimension of depth in the image; it makes it dreamy and adds a painting flavor. It also creates a timeless feeling,...
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Photo Editing Workflow for Travel Photography
Get Viktor’s Lightroom Rapid Editing System for Travel Photography Course 50% off now at SnapnDeals for a limited time only – February 9th-23rd, 2016. A few years ago, just as I returned with 5,000...
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How to Use the X-Rite ColorChecker Passport to Obtain Perfect Color
There are two ways you can approach color reproduction in photography. The first is to try and reproduce the colors of the subject as accurately as you can. If you take a photo of someone wearing a red...
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Why is Monitor Calibration Important and How to do it
Why you need to calibrate your monitor If there one thing that’s certain about photos on the internet, it’s that nobody is seeing exactly the same thing as you. In general, most screens are too bright,...
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4 Quick Ways to Add a Vignette to Your Images in Post-Processing
What is a vignette? The word vignette comes from the root word vine, which originally was taken to mean a decorative border on a page. In photography, this translates to a border around the edge of the...
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How to Use the Channel Mixer in Photoshop to Change Colors in Your Images
There may be times when you want to play around with some elements in your images. Perhaps you want to change a color to a more suitable one in post-processing. One of the tools you can use in...
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Understanding the HSL Panel in Lightroom for Beginners
There are many things involved in post-processing an image, that might seem a little bit daunting at first. That doesn’t mean that they are difficult to learn, or hard to understand. The HSL panel in...
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How to Use the Hue Saturation Adjustment in Photoshop – a Video Tutorial
Learning to understand and master the hue/saturation settings in both Lightroom and Photoshop can help you take your editing to the next level. If you want to see how it’s done in Lightroom check out:...
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Getting Started with Layer Masks in Photoshop – a Beginners Tutorial
Much of the power of Photoshop comes from its use of layers, which can best be thought of as transparency over your image. Layers have lots of benefits, like the fact that you can work on your image...
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2 Video Tips for Using the Print Module in Lightroom
Julianne Kost is the premiere Adobe instructor who teaches us about both Lightroom and Photoshop. In these two videos she gives us tips for printing from Lightroom. In this first one learn some general...
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11 Steps for Basic Portrait Editing in Lightroom – A Beginner’s Guide
I love Lightroom, and use it for the vast majority of my portrait editing. You can achieve a wide variety of portrait effects in Lightroom, from harsh and grungy, to soft and dreamy. My technique...
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Stacking Light Trails for Night Photography Special Effects
In Melbourne there is an intersection that’s iconic for taking light trails phtos. It is the corner of Flinders Street and Swanston Street, in front of Flinders Street Station. Light Trails in front of...
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How to Add Vintage Frame Overlays Using Alien Skin Exposure X
Here is a quick and snazzy tip on adding some cool retro and vintage frame overlays to your photographs, including polaroids and borders, using Alien Skin Exposure X. It’s easy as pie, and takes...
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How to Give Your Images the Hollywood Treatment Step by Step
Do you have an image that you would like to give the Hollywood treatment to, and really help make it pop? In this article, I’ll be showing you a method that you can use to give your images the...
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Lightroom Quick Post-Processing Tips for Landscape Photography
Processing a good landscape image is a lot like getting a good haircut…it should look good, but people shouldn’t really be able to tell you’ve had anything done. Now while that may be a slightly funny...
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5 Tips for Using the Lightroom Adjustment Brush Tool
One of Lightroom’s most useful tools is tucked away at the top of the Develop panel, under a rather strange-looking icon that looks like a magic wand from Harry Potter. Clicking this Adjustment Brush...
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How to Use the Clone Stamp Tool in Photoshop to Make Clear Skin
We’re all beautiful. Sometimes however, we have imperfections that can be a distraction (most often they are magnified in our minds and really not as bad as we think). In this tutorial, I am going to...
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How to Cut Out the Subject From the Background in Photoshop
This video by Chris from Spoon Graphics does a good job of going over many of the options available inside Photoshop for cutting things out. The most common use is to cut out the subject from the...
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Step by Step How to Use HDR Merge in Lightroom
There are lots of plug-ins that you can use with Lightroom to create High Dynamic Range (HDR) images. Photomatix and HDR Efex Pro are two of the best known, and MacPhun’s Aurora HDR (Mac only) is a...
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