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Travelling Abroad to Take Photographs? Prepare Well With These Travel Tips

Planning a photography trip overseas? Travelling abroad to take photographs can lead to problems and mistakes. Here are some travel tips to help with the preparation. Do plenty of research. Masses can be found on the internet and then there are good maps ... Read >

Light is Not the Same as Lighting in Photography

Light does have a special place in photography, but all too often it is largely ignored, whereas in actual fact, different light can change the whole scene dramatically. Understanding light can greatly improve the image.Photoshop is now one of the major c... Read >

The Dirty Stuff in Photography - Grain and Digital Noise

Film has (had) a grain structure made by the emulsion crystals. Digital images can have their equivalent, known as noise. Noise needs to be considered and used when working on digital images.Film emulsion has a grain structure created by the silver halide... Read >

Which Wins in Digital Imaging - RGB or CMYK ?

In digital imaging with Photoshop, the two basic colour modes to work in are Red, Green and Blue (RGB) and Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black (CMYK). Both have their pros and cons and here we look at which is better for more successful image creating.An exis... Read >

What are RGB and CMYK in Photography and Photoshop?

Light is made up of red, green and blue; but there is also cyan, magenta and yellow. These two sets of colours are colour modes, so how do they fit together and what are there relevance in Photography and in learning Photoshop?It is possible to change and... Read >

The Number 1 Tip to Improve Landscape Photography

A real-life scene has a natural depth. When depth is deliberately put into a photograph, it can greatly improve the impact of the image. Without depth, a photograph, particularly of a landscape, can look flat and boring.Photoshop is now one of the major c... Read >

How Can a Boring Piece of Gray Card Improve Colour Photography?

Well if a brown cow can eat green grass and give white milk, then maybe it's possible.A good white balance in digital photography is very important in reproducing colours accurately. A grey card is an essential piece of equipment to help achieve this.When... Read >

Three Ways to Use the Crop Tool in Photoshop

The Crop Tool in Photoshop is used for trimming images but there are several useful things the tool can do.1Open an image suitable for cropping. Select the Crop Tool on the main toolbox. In the top options bar is a small window called Resolution and with ... Read >

Bits and Pixels in Photoshop and a Value of 32,769

The article on this site titled 'What's Icing a Cake Got to Do With Pixels and Resolution in Photoshop?' explains that a pixel is a small square of digital information. The pixels are laid out in a mathematical grid and so do not deteriorate when copied -... Read >

Two Versions of Soft Focus in Photoshop

Giving a photograph a soft-focus look can change the atmosphere of the image; but it can look romantic or more sinister depending how the effect is applied. See how a simple change of 'modes' can completely change the feel of an image.With a soft-focus ef... Read >

How to Find the Exact Centre of an Image in Photoshop

Quite often it is necessary to find the exact central point of an image.There are a couple of ways of achieving this in Photoshop. 1 Open any image.We are going to use guides and they only work when the Rulers are on an image.Put the Rulers on the image... Read >

What's Icing a Cake Got to Do With Pixels and Resolution in Photoshop?

Just how are digital images are constructed in Photoshop? Pixels, Resolution and Image Size are all involved but what do they mean in practice?Tutorials on Photoshop are invariably concerned with working directly on photographic images. Little attention i... Read >

An Easy Way to Give Photographs More Impact

Photoshop is now one of the major computer programmes around. The basis of it all, however, is the photographic image.Very often the quality of the original image can get overlooked or can be considered unimportant. We hear sentences like: "Oh that'll do ... Read >