Your camera does a lot more to your images than you think. Just as you take a picture, your camera adjusts the white balance and the sharpness for you. How much it does this depends on the settings you give it. With that, many readers have wondered if they should even bother setting the sharpness [...]

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No matter how much we try to make our images just right, sometimes we mess up. That doesn’t mean we have to give up, however. With some simple editing in Adobe Photoshop Elements, you can bring color back into your overexposed images and possibly save them from ruin. Just follow these simple steps.

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If you’ve been around since the beginning of digital photography, you no doubt understand how much progress we’ve made. Today’s models make the first digital cameras look incredibly weak, and the reason is resolution. For a lot less than you would have paid back then, you can get a digital camera with ten times the [...]

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There are countless ways to sharpen an image, but which one is correct? How much sharpening do you need to do? It’s time to clear up the confusion surrounding sharpening once and for all. Using Adobe Photoshop Elements, we’re going to sharpen photos the right way. Once you learn this little trick, you’ll want to [...]

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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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Whenever we talk about post-processing our photos in Photoshop (or any similar kind of software), we inevitably introduce the concept of layers. If it weren’t for layers, Photoshop wouldn’t be nearly as popular as it is, and photographers would have a much more difficult time making changes after a picture has been taken. They are [...]

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Among the many settings you can modify from your camera’s main menu, one of them can have a dramatic impact on the pictures you take. By changing the aspect ratio, you are changing the width and the height of the image as it is taken. Not all cameras allow you to do this, but some [...]

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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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If you haven’t mastered the perfect camera grip quite yet, your photos of ordinary buildings can start to look like the Leaning Tower Of Pisa pretty quickly. With sloping horizons, something always feel just a little bit “off” about your photos. Luckily, there’s a way to change that in short order. With a few simple [...]

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Double exposure photographs have been around since the beginning of film cameras. Back then, there was no Photoshop. You couldn’t just go in and change your images any way you want. So photographers did what they could with the tools they had. The double exposure was one tool in their belt.

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What are the best ways to take a black and white photo in today’s color digital world? That’s a question I often get asked. And it’s a great question because there is more than one way to convert a shot taken with a color camera into black and white. If you’re not sure of the [...]

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