Tutorials

    Transfer your Polaroid photos onto other materials using Emulsion Lift techniques
    Jan 12, 2017 John Aldred

    Thanks to companies like the Impossible Project, Polaroids have seen a massive resurgence in popularity. While Fuji and others have come out with other forms of…

    Change Select and Mask back to Refine Edge in CC 2017
    Jan 7, 2017 Clinton lofthouse

    Many things have troubled me this past year. Global warming, war, consumerism, my beard that seems to grow ginger past a certain length…..but right above…

    Quick tip: How Lightroom Survey Mode helps you choose your best images in a flash
    Jan 6, 2017 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

    When you need to select the best images to edit and send to the client, it can be quite a boring task. When you get…

    Easy but powerful colour correction and grading using colour wheels
    Dec 30, 2016 John Aldred

    Colour wheels are fairly common to video editing applications. Lately, they seem to have started popping up in still image editing applications, too through the…

    Kit lens masterclass for new shooters – Part 3
    Dec 30, 2016 Brad Nichol

    Now that you know more about your mechanics and attributes of your kit lens, the time has come to look at the creative use of…

    Manually fixing distortion in Photoshop is easier than you think
    Dec 30, 2016 John Aldred

    When you’re photographing interiors or tall buildings, perspective distortion is often inevitable. There’s ways around it with tilt shift lenses or large format film cameras,…

    How to use coloured gels with studio strobes and softboxes
    Dec 29, 2016 John Aldred

    Using coloured gels with speedlights has become pretty common. Many people who shoot with speedlights have given it a go at least a couple of…

    How to measure the diameter of custom lens bokeh using a compass
    Dec 28, 2016 John Aldred

    Creating custom bokeh for lenses is something many of us try at some point. Even if it’s not something we’re ever going to do again,…

    Kit lens masterclass for new shooters – Part 2
    Dec 28, 2016 Brad Nichol

    In Part 1 we looked at the potential issues and problems relating to kit lenses, now tis the time to turn our attention to the…

    Kit lens masterclass for new shooters – Part 1
    Dec 27, 2016 Brad Nichol

    So your kit lens is rubbish, you know this for a certainty because numerous photo blogs and camera test sites have told you so. It’s…