In this video tutorial, Aaron Nace from PHLearn.com show a great technique that allows you to re-touch portraits without turning the subject into a porcelain doll. The techniques smoothes out the tones in the subject and leaves the skin textures intact. You can retouch both the tones and the textures as two separate components and have the...
Photographer, Retoucher and Trainer Glyn Dewis shows us in this video the advantage of shooting in RAW and how you can get a great result out of a "throw-away" image which you normally wouldn't even bother keeping in Lightroom. In a recent post, I also touched on this topic to show you the benefits and advantages of shooting in RAW. Check out my...
What do you do when life gets too busy to go out and shoot? Well you go back in time, way back!! Back to year 2005 and revisit old photos you've taken. When I first visited France after joining Esker, it was a three week training stint in a foreign country. Not bad huh!! It is pretty bad when you only know a couple of words of French. I took this...
Analog Efex Pro 2 Google recently released an update (15th May, 2014) to its Analog Efex Pro with Analog Efex Pro 2 which includes lots of new features including new Cameras and Presets. A few of the latest features that got my attention were the: Discover Creative Ways...
Focus Mask Adobe released a sneak peak at their upcoming feature in the Photoshop CC update coming soon, its Focus Masks. Yes that's correct, we will now be able to select the pixels that are focused by using this upcoming addition to Photoshop CC. Just check out this video which gives a sneak peak into this awesome feature.
What makes a photo more engaging? Interesting subject? Great Composition? Yes, although these factors play an important role in creating a great image one key factor is directing your viewers eye to parts of the image and having them look around inside the image. Getting their eye to wonder. Take a look at the following image, what do you see...
HDR stands for High Dynamic Range and in photography this is quite a popular way to create an image that comes close to what we see with our eyes. Its something that is not possible straight out of the camera although some of the newer cameras now come with this feature (at least they try to). Typically in HDR image you take an at least 3...
HDR Images HDR (High Dynamic Range) is one of the most popular photo editing and processing techniques out there. There are numerous software which let you create HDR images from multiple Exposures. However using these software requires some knowledge and understanding of the different sliders and options in these software. This can be...
In this walkthrough, I will share the steps in the making of this photo. I will show the exact steps in Lightroom on how I took this ordinary image straight out of the camera into a nice & pleasing result you see below. Before we start the editing process, the a quick word on how this was taken. As you can see there are two tracks so I was on...
Textures are really cool and unique way to give you photographs a whole new feel and emotion. When done correctly it can result is some outstanding photographs. I love using textures on my images, and often will combine two to three textures to an image not just one. Below is one example. The original image lacked mood and was flat as it was...
Before Last Christmas when I was in Melbourne I captured what I thought was a decent shot but my Tokina 11-16mm Wide Angle Lens has some lens flare issues. This photo which I took at first glance looks like a complete loss. However with only a few edits in Photoshop and Lightroom I was able to rescue the photo. Once I loaded the image in...
If you are using Lightroom version 3 or above, there are many shortcuts available in Lightroom. All of them are listed under "<ModuleName> Module Shortcuts" in the Help menu eg. Develop Module Shortcuts. However these shortcuts are not easy to print and therefore require memorising or writing down so that you can work faster in Lightroom....