During autumn there are many fog days. You don’t even need to weak up very early to catch some fog in a nearby forest. However, some of us got work to do and just can’t follow the weather all the time.
Look at the difference between the 2 images below and you’ll see that foggy pictures [...]

Aperture 1.5 is a all-in-one post-production software tool for serious photographers who use Mac systems. Aperture — enthusiastically adopted by some of the world’s finest professional photographers — set the standard for professional photo management applications. It is indeed a complete software that is a pleasure working with. More than that, it’s flexibility relies upon [...]

About 2 weeks ago I entered a project called “Edit My Photo”. Bian Auer told everyone who wanted to participate, to “photoshop” his “bird on the beach” photo. There were 28 entries, each of them very different and unique.
This project is a fine example how digital processing an image can improve a shot, creating [...]

AKVIS LLC releases version 5.0 of its photo collage plug-in AKVIS Chameleon. The new version is a true breakthrough in photo collage creation. The program offers a new mode that allows transferring a roughly selected object to a new background with a clean result. No precise mask tools are needed! Now the program has [...]

The autumn looks more and more impressive these days, so I’m going on shooting outdoors around the trees. Here’s a video to teach you the basics (it’s really a very basic video) about photo enhachment needed for vibrant autumn photo prints. I’m going to make a selection of my photos and print some too.

Tags: photoshop, [...]

I decided to accept the challenge proposed by Brian Auer in “Edit my Photo” Project.
Here are the original image and the final image:

Step 1: Croping
By looking at the image you see that it is basically right composed, but, the subject needs to be closer to the viewer of the frame. Therefore, I need to crop [...]

I always hear the question: how should I retouch portraits? and most of the time it is refeard to the exact process of using the clone tool, the healing brush, the smudge tool and warming plus enlighten of the skin tones. But, behind the technique its self, I almost never hear someone asking: when should [...]

If you just want to make your pictures better, prepare them to sell as stock or print them without reading tutorials or books, just look at this short video and you’ll get to know the most basic secrets of photo editing with Adobe Photoshop.

Tags: sharpening, color correction, saturating, adobe photoshop, photoshop, [...]

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Adobe Photoshop CS3 includes a black & white feature that transforms the colored picture into pretty realistic infrared black and white image.
From the Menu Image -> Adjustments -> Black & White (or Alt+Ctrl+Shift+B). In the Black & White Tab select Infrared. Now you can decrease the RED channel even more (and increase the [...]

The Tips: Use a tripod, use the higher resolution and pay attention at the lighting in order to make this trick as real as possible.
Even if this video is about cloning a person, the clone tool (combined with the healing tool) is very useful to photographers for more down-to-earth problems such as removing unwanted objects [...]