A mixed bag of topics to assist you in a wide range of areas. Digital archiving, cropping your images correctly, how best to present your images on the web, the effects of high iso on images, setting up for professional printing are just a few of the tutorials you will find here to help you understand, set up, think about, organise, print and capture your images correctly, making life just that little bit easier.
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So you have a whole bunch of images shot in RAW and you want to apply the same Adobe Camera Raw editing / adjustments to them all. So in this tutorial we create a Camera Raw preset of our image adjustments and then apply that... read more
There is nothing worst than loosing your images, especially in a digital world where film is scanned and digital capture reigns supreme. At least with film it can be re scanned if you loose everything. Having a secure and... read more
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A problem encounted when batch processing RAW files with an action you have created in Photoshop through Adobe Bridge is the programs need to open every file in Adobe Camera RAW first. After that it will then run the action and... read more
Shooting RAW is best as we all know, but there are some applications that don't support or open the .CR2 or .NEF format. The solution is to use a small free program available from Adobe that converts your RAW file to a DNG... read more
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Cropping correctly is an important aspect of your workflow as you want to maximize your images composition and file size. You also need to put thought into what ratio you are going to make your image and this tutorial walks you... read more
After shooting with Lee Neutral Density Filters for over 10 years. Landscape Photographer Matt Lauder shares with you some points on general care of the filters and what happens when you don't look ... read more
A tutorial showing you how to create a few smart and clean boarders to put around your images that will not only give all your images a professional look but will set them apart from the rest when you upload it to a web site /... read more
Editing your image for presentation on the web is one thing as you can hide a lot of defects and poor Photoshop practices in a small 800 wide jpeg. It's when you edit your work for printing that it sorts the men from the boys.... read more
A new and fantastic tool on the market is the Photographers Ephemeris. In this tutorial we look at how the tool can be used to plan in detail how to get the best from locations on your "Must shoot list." We go through some... read more
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Landscape photographer Marc Adamus shared his sharpening method for the web on a forum, so I applied it to one of my image and compared the results to a standard sharpening method like Smart Sharpen. The results are ... read more
Landscape Photographer Matt Lauder takes you behind the scenes of his business and shows you how he organises and stores his RAW files and drum scans. Matt then shows you how he catalogues and assigns codes to his film... read more
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Understanding and creating custom Photoshop actions and droplets are worth their weight in gold. Creating these actions allow you to streamline some of the more repetitive tasks you maybe doing in Photoshop constantly or ones... read more
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Sharpening your images prior to printing is something quite a few photographers don't do or think they can do. When it is an excellent way to enhance the detail in your image that is reflected in print. The question is how much... read more
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When editing any RAW file you have the unpleasant task of removing sensor dust. It's one thing to clean your image of dust in areas where you can visibly see dust but what about in areas where you cant really see the dust... read more
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No matter what level photographer you are you can submit your work for printing at a professional lab. In this tutorial we look at setting up printing files for two different labs to maximize cost and minimize expense by... read more
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When upgrading from Photoshop CS3 to CS4 we found that when viewing our images (24 inch iMac) at "Fit Screen" at times they may look soft. This wasn't an issue in CS3. After a bit of playing around we found a way to get it... read more
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Making sure your images look their best on line is essential to not only customers but also to yourself and the community of people who will look and comment on it. This tutorial guides you through the process of preparing... 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 […]
