Photoshop Tips
From Boring to WOW: How to Use Textures and Overlays in Photoshop
Textures and Overlays Make a Difference In Your Photos Not every image looks good with textures applied to them. In fact textures are often overused in photo editing. But for an artistic fine art look, or even to cover up unwanted parts of an image, textures can play a major role. Here is a quick…
How To Create Fantasy Composite Images In Photoshop
Learn to combine photos into one composite image in Photoshop.
Photoshop Tutorial: Get Rid of Isolated Color Casts in Dark Hair
Get rid of color casts fast using this easy, proven method alongside our Photoshop actions.
How to Capture Newborn Composite Images Safely
How to Capture Newborn Composite Images Safely There are so many fun ways to capture breath-taking images of newborns. The most important thing to keep in mind when photographing newborns is their safety. Even though there are many poses that can be done with newborns always keep in mind that many of the images you…
Get Technical: How to Photograph Toddlers
The technical aspects of shooting portraits of toddlers and kids. Lights, aperture, shutterspeed and lenses.
Get Happy: How to Get Toddlers To Smile for the Camera
Here is a guide to get everyone smiling during your photography sessions, both kids and their mummies.
Get Ready: 10 Tips for Photographing Toddlers
10 tips for photographers to get better pictures of toddlers.
How to Edit Butterfly Images in Photoshop
I love photographing wildlife. Butterfly images are so amazing and colorful. Learn how to edit your butterfly photos in Photoshop now.
5 Steps to Successful Mini Sessions for Professional Photographers
A foolproof, step-by-step guide to running successful minis for professional photographers.
MCP Photography and Editing Photo Challenges: Highlights from this Week
This week’s photo edit challenge photo, captured by Angela McNaul, embodies the essence of childhood summer memories. Here is the original photo: The MCP photo challenges give you an opportunity to edit other photographer’s images, share them for critique, and see how others edit the same photographs. Participating allows you to practice editing, learn how…
How to Use Newborn Necessities Actions for Cute Kids Images
How to make your images stand out from the crowd using Newborn Necessities.
Retouching 101: Learn Basic Photoshop Retouching in Minutes
Learn to fix minor imperfections in your photos with these retouching tricks: smooth skin, remove stray hair, and eliminate acne.
Warning: Shallow Depth of Field May Be Ruining Your Photos
Don’t let trends convince you that you always need to use a shallow depth of field. Sometimes you will get better results being more conservative.
Take Control of Your Light: Why Diffuse It
How to affect the quality of the light Is the light is giving you the look you desire? By themselves some light sources are very hard, creating very dark and crisp shadows. To soften the light you need to diffuse it by adding modifiers: an umbrella, a softbox, or even a fabric screen. Think about…
Take Control of Your Light: Flash
How to Start out with Flash Lighting If continuous lighting (see Part I) is not ideal for you and you decide that flash lighting would work better, then what? Well now you have to decide between studio strobes or on-camera flash (speedlights) , which can also be used off camera. Both work great, and once…
Take Control of Your Light: Artificial Light, Why Use It
Using artificial light Artificial light is similar to natural light in the way you use it, but differs in three ways. First, you can adjust the power of the light, second, you can change your distance from the light easily, and third, you can modify the quality of the light. Adjustable Power When using any…
Take Control of Your Light: Continuous Light
Steps on how to get to selecting and using at least one ‘un’-natural source of light. The part of the article covers continuous lighting.
Magically Add Detail to Photos: A Photoshop Step By Step Tutorial
Use Photoshop actions to magically make your photos come alive. Learn how in this step-by-step tutorial.
6 Tips and Tricks to Beginner Bird Photography
Tips and Trick for photographers who want to get started in bird photography.
Tips and Tricks to Pose High School Seniors Naturally
When it comes to posing clients, my job, as the photographer, is:
(1) To help my subject to relax so that she will be comfortable and confident
(2) To understand what positions and lighting will be most flattering.
(3) To consciously avoid things that will be distracting or unflattering.
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