If you are a subscriber to Adobe Creative Cloud, you may have noticed the latest Adobe Photoshop CC update. This latest update was released on 30 November 2015. This Photoshop CC update is a major overhaul and includes more than 30 updates according to Adobe. Among the many functional updates, Adobe has also taken the [...]
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 [...]
The Adobe Lightroom update that many of us have been waiting on is available in both Windows and Mac versions. In a previous article, I mentioned how Adobe had apologised to their customers following the October 2015 update of Lightroom. The main source of complaint was the revised, or "dumbed down", version of the Import [...]
Adobe apologises to all of its users of Lightroom following a wave of complaints after their update to version 6.2 in October. The update has resulted in millions of users (including me) experiencing a severe slow down of the Import function. Not only was the new Import function causing a slow down of the user's computer [...]
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 [...]
We are often asked by people starting out with photo editing about the difference between destructive and non-destructive editing. Let me try to explain the difference in some detail. I'll describe destructive editing first then move onto non-destructive editing. Destructive Editing The term destructive editing does not mean that you actually destroy your image; in [...]
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 [...]
In a previous post, I introduced you to the idea of focus stacking and how it can be used with macro photography. Now I'd like to explain the method for achieving focus stacking in Photoshop. As always, there will be several different ways to carry out focus stacking in Photoshop but the method described here [...]
The technique of focus stacking allows you to overcome one of the biggest problems with macro photography; the limited depth of field. Before I explain what focus stacking is, it may be worthwhile explaining what depth of field is first. I don't want to delve into this subject in too much detail, because it demands [...]
