If you are like me you will do everything you can to make the conditions for taking your pictures as perfect as possible. Putting your subject in the perfect position to capture the best lighting, eliminating distracting elements, these are only a few of the steps necessary to take the best possible photo. Unfortunately, not [...]

Hopefully sometime this week Adobe Photoshop Creative Suite 5 (CS5) will officially be released, although I can already expose a few of the new features in this tutorial dedicated to the latest version of Adobe Photoshop CS5.   The team at Photoshop has been concentrating their efforts in improving two major areas of improvement as [...]

How many times have you purchased something to only have it sit because you don\’t quite know how to use it? Many times this is the case with the software Adobe Photoshop. Adobe Photoshop is a vast program, but with the assistance of a good tutorial and taking lessons you can master all of its [...]

Are you looking for a way to improve how you take your pictures? Even if you have that ultra expensive SLR camera, you just can\’t seem to do what the professional photographers do best, which is to take professional looking photographs. You have all the latest photography accessories and still you can\’t take high [...]

Siri Stafford, my art director at the time, suggested this stock image for me. She asked me to make the image because she thought my specialty of using Photoshop to create conceptual stock images made me a logical choice for the job. I truly loved the idea; but what the heck would lightning hitting [...]

Digital photography has many advantages over film photography in many areas, but one of the most useful is the final output of the image itself. With film cameras, you can count on the processing lab for all general adjustments have to change your photos seem to do their best, but with digital photos that [...]

In this modern age, people think of filters only as options on Adobe Photoshop. Many forget that filters were and still are glass rings that are screwed on to the front of your lens, to provide the special effects. It is true however that Photoshop can mimic the same on computer, so many photographers [...]

Colour photography is now the norm, and is perfect for most situations; however, there are some times when you want the power and simplicity of a black and white photo. Black and white photography requires a different set of skills to colour, as the picture is formed purely from areas of light and [...]

The exposure of a digital photograph is affected by the camera’s aperture, shutter speed, sensor ISO rating, and of course the amount of light in the scene being photographed. An incorrect exposure will turn an otherwise well composed wildlife image into something mediocre and at worst completely ruin a shot. All digital cameras [...]

Do you love photography so much but you just can\’t seem to produce great looking photos? Do you want your amateur looking photos to look like it was taken by professional photographers? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you will need the Adobe Photoshop. First of all, you need to [...]