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How to Understand the Curves Tool in Photoshop
After you’ve mastered Levels, it’s time to take a step up to the tool that is probably the most useful for color and contrast control in Photoshop: Curves. As with levels, you should play around with...
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How to Make and Use Your Own Texture Library
In Photoshop speak, the term “texture” refers to an image that adds a textural patina to a photograph. By altering the opacity or blending mode of a textural layer positioned over a photograph, you can...
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How to Simulate the Look of Analog Film Using Lightroom
The tones and organic nature of analog film are things many of us have began to long for in our digital age. Don’t worry, though, this will not be an article about the merits or disadvantages of...
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The dPS Ultimate Guide to Getting Started in Lightroom for Beginners
Note: this is one of the most comprehensive articles we’ve written on Lightroom. Read it below or get a free downloadable copy to print and/or refer to later by adding your email address below and...
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How to Create a Retro Faded Look Using Lightroom or Photoshop
You’ve probably seen images floating around because it’s popular these days, you know, the ones with the retro faded look. It’s pretty popular with the instagram and wedding photography crowd. It’s not...
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Post-Processing: The Final Phase of Studio Product Photography
For the final installation of this series we will be exploring the third and final cog to the product photography studio. We will discuss the system that will allow you to catalog and edit your images...
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6 Color Settings in Photoshop That You Need to Know
Photoshop CC is a complex piece of software. Most of us barely scratch its surface in terms of the features we use. Thankfully, it doesn’t matter if we’re not familiar with every aspect of this vast...
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10 Tips for Advanced Lightroom Users
If you’ve been using Lightroom for a while maybe you’re ready to take your processing to the next level. Here are 10 tips for advanced Lightroom users and professionals, brought to you by Photos in...
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How to Choose the Right Monitor for Photo Editing
Photographers rarely think twice when it comes to buying expensive camera bodies or high-end lenses, but often seem willing to skimp on a monitor. Why is that? In many cases, it’s because one monitor...
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How to Crop to Exact Pixel Size Using Photoshop – with Phil Steele
If you’ve struggled to resize images to an exact pixel size watch this video tutorial by Phil Steele. He will show you exactly how to crop your images to fit a specific pixel size (like for a Facebook...
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Why There are 6 Types of Lightroom Previews and How to Use Them
Previews are an essential part of the Lightroom workflow. But with so many different types of Lightroom previews, it’s easy to get confused. For example, do you know the difference between minimal,...
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How to Merge and Combine Images in Photoshop
The ability to combine images together is a very useful skill for photographers. Although most want to get the image right directly in the camera, there are instances where merging images together...
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How to do Post-Processing of Focus Stacked Images
Let me take you on a short walk through Lightroom and Photoshop. There are relatively few steps required to process focus stacked images. In a previous article (How to Photograph the Images Needed For...
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Tutorial – How to Use the Lightroom Map Module
The Lightroom Map Module lets you add your photos to a map so you can search and organize them by location. It’s quite a cool feature, so let’s take a look at the best ways to make use of it. 1. Using...
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How to Make Your Own Frames and Borders Using Photoshop
Give your photos an edge! This tutorial will show you how to make your own frames and borders using Photoshop. Picture frames have been around for most of art history. This hasn’t change in our digital...
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How to Remove Objects and Add Punch to Your Images with Photoshop
In this article, we’ll look at an image I reprocessed after my initial edit. I’ll also share with you some tips on how to use Photoshop to remove objects from your scene that are unwanted and add some...
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How to Make and Apply a Bokeh Overlay Using Photoshop
Bokeh overlays are an excellent way to add a trendy stylized look to your portraits. You can purchase overlays, but I would instead suggest making your own. It’s easy, fun, and best of all, it’s free!...
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Photoshop Versus Lightroom: Which is Best for Beginners?
If you’re new to photography, you’re likely wondering how to post-process or edit your photos. There is a wide selection of photo editing software to choose from, but the two that you probably hear...
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Image Editing Software Review: PortraitPro 15
mWhen it comes to portrait photography, there seem to be two predominant schools of thought. The first says that retouching is bad, that people should be presented as they are and retouching is a...
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3 Good Reasons to Use Layers in Photoshop
If you shoot RAW, in general, you will be editing those files in Adobe Camera Raw (ACR), Lightroom or some other RAW editor. This may be all the post editing that you require. However, if you are like...
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