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Photoshop Tips for Great Tropical Photos

Hawaii is known for idyllic landscapes and pristine beaches, but sometimes your photos don’t capture what’s right in front of you.  This photo was taken with a less than desirable camera (an iPhone and a Panoramic app), so it obviously needs a little help. Ideally, you’ll take the perfect photo and not need any post-production [...]

Understanding the Lightroom Catalog and File Management System

The SLR Lounge Lightroom 4 DVD This tutorial has been transcribed from the SLR Lounge Lightrom 4 DVD, a 14 hour A – Z video tutorial guide on mastering Lightroom 4 including over 6 hours of developing techniques! Introduction It is absolutely vital that every photographer using Lightroom has a full understanding of the Lightroom [...]

That’s a Photoshop!

A Post by George Maciver from the Highlands of Scotland Photography ‘That’s a Photoshop!’ she cried, and left the group. The photograph in question had been popped, but that was all. Well, I didn’t really know what to say. I mean, every photographer on the planet uses photo editing software, even the Martin Baileys and [...]

Advanced Portrait Retouch on a Male Subject in Lightroom 4 – Part 1 of 3

  Introduction This tutorial has been transcribed from the SLR Lounge Adobe Lightroom 4 DVD Guide, a 14 hour DVD featuring over 130 tutorials for mastering Lightroom which can be purchased from the link above. Lightroom can be a powerful advanced editor, and we often use it for portrait retouching. While it does not much of [...]

Consistency in Post Production

I was looking through a session from 2010 last night and was stunned to see that I often made the mistake I now preach against: inconsistency. I wrote last month about the importance of consistency in your abilities before ever trying to establish yourself as a photographer-for-hire. But consistency in post production is also super [...]

Customizing Panel End Marks in Lightroom 4 (or LR3)

Introduction This tutorial has been transcribed from the SLR Lounge Adobe Lightroom 4 DVD Guide, a 14 hour DVD featuring over 130 tutorials for mastering Lightroom. If you own your own studio, or are heading in that direction, it is nice to have your Lightroom customized to your own studio. This portrays an established brand, especially [...]

23 Cool New Features in Adobe Photoshop CS6

This week Adobe announced a new version of Photoshop – CS6 which is now available for download as a free beta test for a limited time. There’s been loads of posts this week with details of new features but here’s a quick video with 6 of them by Terry White. Want to see more? Here’s [...]

Creating Quality Slideshows

All those photos you have on your harddrive, what are you doing with them? Are they sitting there and then up on a website? Maybe a share on Facebook or Google+? Have you ever thought of presenting your work in a slideshow, or projected, exhibition? Presenting a slideshow of your work can be a very [...]

What Are Burning And Dodging And How They Can Help Your Photos

When teaching modern digital photography I often forget those new to the general art of photography might not be familiar with classic terms and techniques and I need to take a step back. This post is for those who might have always wanted to ask, “What do people mean when they say ‘burn’ and ‘dodge’ [...]

iPad style Apps come to Photoshop – At last!

If you envy your friends their iPhone Instagram app and their iPad grunge photo editing apps then PSKiss has the solution. PSKiss recently released its PSKiss Photogram which is the first ever (at least as far as I’m aware) app like extension for Photoshop. It has all the coolness of an iPad app and it [...]

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