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Flower of the Day 23rd February 2023- Rapeseed
During one of our outings many moons ago… we stopped in a country lane on our way home from Dover to admire the beautiful rapeseed fields. I’ve mentioned in the past that as you drive over the Medway Bridge there are rapeseed fields in abundance but unfortunately you can’t stop to take a photo or…
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My Magic Number – Fountains Hall
One thing I always do to an image when processing, is add a vignette. But sometimes I have a tendency to go a little overboard… especially on flowers. Landscapes, however, need a subtle vignette and not a heavy one, unless you are deep into woodland and want to draw the viewers eye to the centre…
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Fill in those hotspots
A photographer I do follow is Woody Walters of Digital Photo Candy.. and he has taught me quite a lot about photoshop. Woody, hosts a member’s section, but does give free tips for Photoshop. Today he was talking about filling in those hotspots, like bits of sky. He said it draws your attention to the…
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Adjustment Luminosity Photoshop Tip – Woody Walters
Today I received another great tip from Woody Walters… You can view his tip here Woody Walters Adjustment Luminosity Photoshop Tip Basically, it’s about making your colours pop in an image, by adding a black and white adjustment layer and then changing the blend mode to Luminosity and playing around with the colour sliders. Camera:…
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Lightroom Tip – Using the Alt Key for Masking
When working in the Details Panel (Sharpening Section) to apply sharpness to an image I’ve created, to ensure it is only applied to certain parts of the image (the white areas above) I press the Alt (PC) or Option (Mac) whilst using the Masking Slider. By using the Alt key I can see exactly where…
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Multiple Adjustments – My Quick Way of Doing things. Fan of….#65
Take the above image for instance… say I wanted to change the tone of the steps. Yes, I could use the local adjustment brush tool.. but one way I’ve found that is very easy is this. Set all your sliders to 0. Put a graduated filter outside of the image in Lightroom Next, change the…
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Amazing Clouds by Matt Kloskowski
One photographer who I do follow is Matt Kloskowski on Youtube. Tonight I watched one of his videos about making clouds more amazing in Photoshop. And just like his other videos, I found it a great benefit.
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Photoshop – Saving as a PSD
When working in Photoshop, and adding elements to an image and different layers adjustments, like texture and moon’s/skies etc, when saving the image I always save it as a PSD. I never flatten or merge the layers before saving. I know this method of saving your work creates large file sizes and eats up disc…
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Channel Masks and an Autumn Photo
Today I watched a great tutorial from Matt Kloskowski and as a novice Photoshop user, I’ve never really played around with Channel Masks. Well, to be honest, I didn’t have much of a clue until I watched this video and what you could do with them. So the image I used for this experiment was…
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Processing an image – My Way.
First and foremost I use Lightroom for as much of the editing as I can. Very rarely do I go to Photoshop to process an image.. unless I want to create something that can’t be achieved in Lightroom. So how do I process my image? Develop Module in Lightroom Lightroom now gives you the ability…
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Content aware fill
One of the new powerful features in Photoshop is the Content-Aware Fill tool. In this video, Julianne Kost explains its concept and what it can do. I wanted to take the content-aware tool a little further. As you can see from the image below, the waterfall is practically dead-centre and I wanted it more to…
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Don’t be afraid to increase your ISO
Oh that exposure triangle and learning to get to grips with it.. is one of the things that is really daunting to amateur photographers. None of us wants grain in our images.. even though it does add an effect to a monochrome image at times.. and neither do we want blurry images. But coming to…
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