Tutorials

    How to reduce noise and more easily work with “Blend if” layer sliders in Photoshop CC
    Jun 13, 2016 John Aldred

    Photoshop’s layer blending options are some of its most powerful tools but also one of its most frustrating, particularly the “Blend if” sliders.  Designed to help you…

    Power Trick: shadows for composites and digital manipulation
    Jun 13, 2016 Aad Sommeling

    Shadows are often the hardest part when creating composites. In my workshop I often get the question can’t we just take a copy of the…

    How to composite a car into a new background in Photoshop CC
    Jun 10, 2016 John Aldred

    Unless we are an automotive photographer, getting access to fancy cars at the environments in which we’d like to photograph them can be a tricky proposition….

    Dancing Decay – a complete step by step composing breakdown
    Jun 9, 2016 Cassigrafie

    Believe it or not, the photo above is not real, It was composed from several elements, so there was never a dancer that I shot…

    How to Use a Circular Polarizing Filter Like a Champ!
    Jun 9, 2016 John Aldred

    Circular polarizing (CPL) filters are one of the most useful tools a landscape photographer can have in their toolkit. In this video from landscape and…

    This short video shows how one soft light can make a huge difference in final result
    Jun 8, 2016 Udi Tirosh

    There is a lot of power you can master once you go from available light to even using one strobe. Photographer Manuel Ortiz demonstrates it in…

    How to shoot video with a white seamless background on the cheap
    Jun 7, 2016 John Aldred

    There are countless ways of setting up and lighting a white background for stills or video, but sometimes you just need to get it done…

    How to make “before and after” animated sequences in Photoshop
    Jun 7, 2016 John Aldred

    In a slight departure from the reviews of old and weird lenses typically seen on Mathieu Stern’s YouTube channel, this tutorial shows how to create animated…

    Finally! The BEST way to sharpen your images!
    Jun 5, 2016 Joseph Parry

    Sharpening. A subject that has potentially endless possibilities when it comes to how it can be done, high pass, unsharp mask, sharpening etc are the…

    What the heck is hyperfocal distance?
    Jun 4, 2016 Daniela Bowker

    I often get the feeling that photography is talked and written about as if its practitioners have an innate knowledge of the terms involved. Any…