The correct use, understanding and application of tools, filters, blending modes, layers, masks and much more is critical to the development of an image. These techniques are illustrated on real high quality images so you can see how they are applied and the effect they have on an image. These techniques are what you will find make the foundation of our Masterclasses.
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Shooting digital panoramics really comes down to technique more than anything. If your off in your technique then your final result is going to suffer. In this tutorial we explore the issue associated with poor overlap in... read more
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Once you have merged your seascape panoramics you need to get up close and personal and check out the horizon to see if it looks nice and straight without any errors that may have happened during the merging process. If you... read more
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One downside to shooting digital panoramics of a seascape scene is the breaks in wave movement alignment that can happen. These eye sores need to be repaired and repaired well so that the image looks normal. In this tutorial we... read more
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Simple but very effective on the right shot. We show you how to find the black and white point in your images and then using the curve or levels adjustment layer you can set the white and black point in that image. The result... read more
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The shadow highlight adjustment in Photoshop is one that is unused by a lot of photographers and when it is used, it is usually applied in correctly. This tutorial shows you a great default set up of the feature and how to... read more
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Sure we have luminosity masks of all shapes and sizes to select, control and manipulate tonal value in an image but what about making detailed selections of colour. Well in this tutorial we bring your attention to ... read more
Quite often you will see images online on websites like flickr etc where the landscape image has a nice softness about it but at the same time still sharp. Well in this tutorial we show you how we go about applying this... read more
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No matter how well you set up and align your gear to shoot your digital panoramic when your back putting it together there can always be serious problems with key parts of image not aligning correctly, in this tutorials we look... read more
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With digital images a complaint you hear quite often is that the image lacks colour and is lifeless. If only you could get the colour you could get the saturated colour that slide film offers. Well you can and you wont have to... read more
December 9, 2011
With photography quite often the photographer can see the final image they want to create even before they take the first shot.
In this tutorial we discuss the concept of our final shot, the filters used to slow down the shutter speed, how the images were captured using the Shutter Blending technique and then the Photoshop post […]
December 4, 2011
Quite often you will see images online on websites like flickr etc where the landscape image has a nice softness about it, but at the same time still sharp. Well in this tutorial we show you how we go about applying this technique to a shot for both web presentation and for print.
We explain why this […]
