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How to Create a Silky Water Effect in Post-Processing without Using Filters...
Smooth water effect edited in Affinity Photo using the Live Stacks feature. Even if you don’t shoot landscape photography, photos of waterfalls with the smooth water and glassy appearance are awesome....
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Tips for Processing Winter Landscapes in Lightroom
I see a lot of winter. The interior of Alaska, where I live, gets a solid six months, often seven, of the white stuff. Essentially anytime from October to mid-April, we are likely to have snow on the...
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How to Use the Patch Tool in Photoshop
There are tools in Photoshop that I use more than others, and some not at all. The Patch tool is one of my favourites. It is so easy to use and with each version of Photoshop, it has gotten even...
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How to Blend in Adjustments Using Layer Masking in Photoshop
In a recent article called: Getting Started with Layer Masks in Photoshop – a Beginners Tutorial, I showed you the basics of layer masks and why they are such powerful tools. Layer masks are...
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How to Make Your Photos Shine Using Clarity, Sharpening, and Dehaze in Lightroom
The goal of any photographer is to make each and every photo stand out from the crowd. Making an image that pops is something that we all strive to achieve, but it’s not always easy to do. Luckily,...
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4 Steps to Make Your Images Pop in Lightroom
In this article, I share with you the start of my post-processing workflow for pretty much all of the photos I take. I’m mostly using Lightroom for 90% of my post-processing and very rarely do I go...
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Creating a Lens Flare Effect and Dust Particles in Photoshop
This article isn’t about how to magically transform your images using Photoshop. The real magic of Photoshop is trying to convince the viewer that no effects were added at all, and that the image was...
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How to Add a Reflection in Photoshop
There is one thing in photography that seems to be universally loved – reflections. They aren’t always easy to get, especially if water is involved. The wind only has to be blowing slightly to create...
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Transform Your Landscape Photography in a Click with our New Lightroom...
Do you take landscape photos? Are you a Lightroom* user? Do you need a little help to lift your landscape shots to the next level? Today we’re excited to announce the launch of our all new Adobe...
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The 6 Most Important Things You Need to Know about Lightroom’s Develop Module
Lightroom is powerful, but it’s also complex and has a steep learning curve. If you feel overwhelmed by all the options, there’s great value in taking a simple approach and learning to use the tools...
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Software Review: Macphun Creative Kit 2016
Boneyard Beach, Botany Bay Plantation, South Carolina. Edited in Macphun Intensify Creative Kit. My philosophy on photography has always been that photography starts with the push of the shutter...
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5 Tips for Going from Pixels to Print Quality
Whatever level of photographer, you are sure to have gathered a stockpile of pixels. It’s just the way it is nowadays. Whether you are the kind of person that clogs up their hard drive, gradually...
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The 5 Best Google Nik Color Efex Pro 4 Filters and How They Can Amplify Your...
The Google Nik collection has been considered one of the top photographic effect plugin suites for a few years now, and it just got better in a big way – as of March 24th, 2016, it’s available free of...
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How to Use the Healing Tool in Photoshop
We all have those moments in our photographic careers where things just don’t pan out exactly how we imagined them. Our image is almost exactly as we imagined it to be, but perhaps there are some...
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How to do Bulk Resize and Edit in Photoshop
Have you ever found yourself with a batch of photos that you needed to have edited in the same way? Rather than editing each image one-by-one, Adobe Photoshop offers batch editing processes that can...
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An Overview of Google’s Nik Collection Filters for Post-Processing
By now, if you have not downloaded Google’s Nik Collection, at the very least you have heard that this once $500 software, was made free for download in March 2016. The Nik Collection, as it has been...
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Step by Step How to do Cloud Stacking
The effect of the clouds streaking across the sky is a very popular look now, but not everyone has ND filters and can get those photos. However, there are other ways of getting similar results. Cloud...
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The Not-So-Obvious Reason for Using HDR
Get Viktor’s Rapid Editing for HDR eBook, Course & Presets Bundle at 60% off now over at Snapndeals, only until June 7th (AUS time). Over the past five years or so, HDR (high dynamic range) has...
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Is HDR dead? Some dPS Writer’s Thoughts on this Controversial Topic
HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography has been around for quite a few years now. It is a technique that allows you as a photographer to use bracketed images, to capture as much of the dynamic range in a...
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To Process or Not To Process? Let’s Discuss
Processing a RAW file can allow a photographer to bring out the full range of tones in an image. Often when I’m looking at photos in forums online, or interacting with photographers in person,...
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