Archive of posts on Image Editing

Selective Colour

Selective coloring is a favorite technique of photographers. Here’s how to do it. → Continue reading »

Filter Effects: Radial Blur

Before After Radial Blur is great for adding some interesting effects to images that need a little something extra. Use this technique to add a little extra flare. → Continue reading »

What Can Wacom Do For You?

Wacom Tablets are fast becoming the newest sensation for working with your photographs. Nick Shulman had a chance to test one out and has sent in a review. → Continue reading »

Photoshop Actions to help you get the effect you want

A lot of the actions I use have been developed by reading books, web-pages and talking to photographers to pick-up some tips. I thought I would pass along some of my more favorite actions for you to use. Also if you don’t know about the Adobe Exchange check it out, its full of great free → Continue reading »

Putting Together a Workflow

Digital photography has revolutionized the photographic processes. When film was the only way to take a picture, many photographers carefully planned their shots. Consider this, on the typical photo shoot, I often take roughly 300 pictures with my digital camera, if that was film my typical photo shoot would cost me about $170. I guess → Continue reading »

2 Ways to Create Artistic and Eerie Photos

I saw this effect in Nature Photography (written by Tim Fitzharris) and had to try it for myself. To get this eerie/surreal effect is actually pretty simple, it’s just multiple exposures. There are two ways that I know of to make a multiple exposure. → Continue reading »

Inserting a Backdrop

When you’re taking a picture of someone and don’t like the background or just want to change it, it’s pretty simple to insert a professional looking back drop. This trick is easiest to do when the subject is photographed on a uniform background. → Continue reading »

How to add copyright to a photo’s EXIF data

You can use Adobe Bridge to add a copyright to your photo’s EXIF data. → Continue reading »

Adding Fog to a Photo in Photoshop

This is a nice photoshop tip I picked up off of Matt Kloskowski on adding fog to a landscape photograph. → Continue reading »

Creating Heart Shadows

Inspired by a shot I had seen of a pair of glasses casting a heart shaped shadow onto a page of a book, I decided to try a similar shot. Unfortunately, my glasses are square and wouldn’t cast the shadow that I wanted. I decided to give it a go with my polarizer instead. → Continue reading »