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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
During a recent visit to Italy, I found myself back in a location that has a view of Tuscany that is... well it's hard to describe. I sat outside a bar in the Tuscan mountain-top village of San Pellegrino in Alpe. Sitting around 1525 m (5,003 ft) up, San Pellegrino in Alpe offers immense and captivating panoramic views over [...]
