Have you ever wanted to know what you look like with different colored eyes? Thanks to photo editing software like Adobe Photoshop Elements, you can. You just need to know a few things about some of the selection tools available, and the world becomes your playground. Here’s how to get started.

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What is it with buildings and photography? Why do they almost always seem to come out a little funny, no matter what you try? Most consumer camera lenses do an awesome job of photographing things on the everyday scale, but they often fail miserably with oversized objects like buildings. I want to show you why [...]

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When I found out the price of Adobe Photoshop CS, my gut reaction was nothing less than shock. At $670 a copy, it’s simply too much. How can the average photographer, somebody doing it for the love and not the money, afford such a thing? Some of you may be tempted by the other option, [...]

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Today’s digital photography tools have changed the profession in ways that nobody could have imagined. Photography has always been an art, but now it involves more than the use of the camera. Half, if not more than half, of the technique of photography is carried out in the post-processing phase. Sharpening has grown to become [...]

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Artists can be a self-righteous bunch. There will always be the purists, those who don’t even own a digital camera, and then there are those who recognize the importance of Photoshop and other tools. When it comes to the ethics of photography, post-processing tends to get the bad end of the stick because it involves [...]

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I had a great response from last week’s article on Selective Coloring. As well as lots of great email comments, there were a number of readers who uploaded their selective color photos to our gallery. A lot of the questions I received were from readers asking what kinds of photos are best to use selective [...]

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Or: How to make one object color while the rest is black-and-white I really love this effect. When your main subject is in color, and the rest of your image is in black-and-white, you can draw a lot emphasis to your subject. You can also use small amounts of color to highlight otherwise unseen parts [...]

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Ah, the dreaded pimple on picture day. If you’ve got a teen, or have been a teen yourself, you know what it’s like. You can’t stop that photographer from taking the picture, so it looks you have no other choice but to take matters into your own hands and learn some photoshopping skills. Here’s a [...]

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In the last tutorial, we got started with creating our first action sequence photo. We got out our tripod and went on location to shoot five photos continuously. Now we are going to take those pictures and stitch them together to create a sequence. Before you begin, I highly recommend Adobe Photoshop for this tutorial, [...]

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Another email I received this week was from Mark Jones. Mark writes: I would like some advice on the attached picture. I tried to photograph my band playing a gig in a pub and the light was shining through the window meaning the drummer/guitarist was in almost complete dark, how?why? What should i have had [...]

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In my very first tip, I recommend moving closer to your subject. Almost any shot will look better if you take two or three steps closer. It works especially well on faces because when you fill the frame with your subject’s face, there is less clutter to draw the viewer’s eye away from the pleasing [...]

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Every year or so, something radically new invades our digital photography world. I predict this technique for image resizing will be this year’s contribution. Until now, if you wanted to resize a photo, you could either resize the whole image, or crop parts of it. This means you either lose detail of your subjects, or [...]

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Picnik is a new online image editing program. It handles all the image modification operations that you would expect – rotation, cropping, brightness/contrast, white balance, and sharpening. Most of these have ‘auto fix’ buttons where Picnik will make the change for you to the best settings. You can transfer images from your computer, your webcam, [...]

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Do your images take a long time to email to your relatives? Do your friends ask that you not send pictures to them because of the download time? This usually happens when your photos are a very large size. Large images take a long time to transfer over the Internet.

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