The Content-Aware Fill technology was introduced into Photoshop CS5 and has been incrementally improved ever since. Its latest version found in Photoshop CC is absolutely amazing. The Content-Aware Fill technology can be found in a variety of Photoshop's tools, including the Spot Healing Brush, the Patch Tool as well as the Content-Aware Fill and Content-Aware [...]
The ability to customize the toolbar in Photoshop has been missing forever. Not anymore! You can now customize the toolbar in Photoshop CC since the November 2015 update and I am delighted. Photoshop is a huge application and I would doubt that any single person is capable of using it all, or even needs to use it [...]
One of the best ways to increase the tonal range of your digital photographs is to set the white and black points in Adobe Lightroom. This is an accurate way to ensure you have extracted all the dynamic range from your image without causing clipping. This is a technique that has been used for many [...]
A lesser known tool in Photoshop CC allows you to crop and straighten photos in one go. It's called the Perspective Crop tool. The Perspective Crop tool lets you transform the perspective of an image whilst cropping it. Use the Perspective Crop tool when working with images that contain keystone distortion. Keystone distortion occurs when an object [...]
This is a retouching technique that will appeal to just about everyone who has taken a landscape image and had the look of it ruined by power lines. We will show you how to easily remove power lines with Photoshop using a combination of the Pen tool and the Spot Healing brush. To demonstrate this procedure [...]
There are many guides and discussions about night time photography. Most of them are concerned with photographing the night sky, which is never an easy task. For one thing, it is essential that you take yourself out to the countryside away from all sources of light pollution. Depending on where you live this can be [...]
We received this image from one of our subscribers and thought it was an excellent example of the quality of image that can be taken using a smart phone. The image was taken in Aden Country Park using a Sony phone and sent to us using the form on our Contact Us page. Aden Country [...]
Recently we added a mirrorless digital camera to our extensive arsenal of camera equipment. We all know just how heavy the DSLR full frame bodies are, then add on the lenses…HEAVY! There is an exciting new generation of cameras on the market these days. They are lightweight and pack a punch, often more than capable [...]
The dramatic sky plays a substantial part in the formation of an image. It forms the background and often the main subject of a huge percentage of our images, in particular landscape. Exposure can often be tricky and calculating for either the sky or the foreground on their own will result in one or the [...]
April showers bring May flowers…or so the saying goes. Photography in adverse weather conditions and the problems faced by the photographer can lead to some breath-taking images. Again we take a look at landscapes and the sky where the effects of the elements can be noticeably clear to see, but sometimes you have to be [...]
