Photo Editing & Post-Processing

Take your images to the next level with expert editing and post-processing. Learn how to enhance your photos using popular software such as Lightroom and Photoshop.

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Using a Controlled Vocabulary to Organize Digital Photographs

Tutorial • Beginner

Most photographers have computers, memory cards, and external hard drives packed full of digital photographs. Without sorting the photographs, it's laborious...

Dawn Oosterhoff • 20 Feb 2015
Colour

Anything But Neutral: Using Color to Create Emotional Images

Tutorial • Beginner

Not every photo has to mirror reality. Sometimes, adding a color cast can change an image's entire mood and tone. Here's everything you need to know about...

C.S. Jones • 11 Feb 2015
Workflow

Review, Rough Cut, Pick: Editing a Portrait Shoot in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom

Tutorial • Beginner

In this tutorial, go behind the scenes as the Photo and Video editor, Jackson, and I go through a full shoot and pull out the best images live on screencast....

Harry Guinness • 6 Feb 2015
Editing & Post-Processing

Save For Web: Better JPEG Compression with Adobe Photoshop

Tutorial • Beginner

Save For Web is a nifty feature of later editions of Adobe Photoshop that allows us to compromise in a better way with size and quality in order to retain a...

Marie Gardiner • 5 Feb 2015
Still Life

Love Is in the Air: How to Create a Heart Shaped Smoke Ring Photo for Valentine's Day

Tutorial • Beginner

In honor of Valentine's day, here's how to create a still life image that makes you want to snuggle up next to the fireplace with a good book. We take a cup...

Ben Lucas • 4 Feb 2015
Editing & Post-Processing

Twitter JPEG Compression: How to Create the Best Quality Image for Your Feed

Tutorial • Beginner

For pictures on your feed, Twitter don’t appear to restrict us nearly as much as Facebook does, so posting a decent quality picture to a feed should be...

Marie Gardiner • 31 Jan 2015
Image Correction

Selective Sharpening Using High Pass in Adobe Photoshop

Tutorial • Intermediate

Most digital images need sharpening; however, the amount of sharpening needed varies image to image and even area to area within an image. This tutorial...

Dawn Oosterhoff • 25 Jan 2015
Compositing

3 (And a Half) Uses for Content Aware in Adobe Photoshop

Tutorial • Intermediate

Since CS5, Adobe Photoshop has included a tool called Content Aware. It’s been described as magical and a life-saver but what exactly is it and how can we...

Marie Gardiner • 20 Jan 2015
Editing & Post-Processing

How to Add Adobe Lightroom Mobile's Superpowers to Your Post-Production Workflow

Tutorial • Intermediate

Disconnect from your desk and integrate Adobe's Lightroom Mobile in your workflow away from home.

Andrew Childress • 19 Jan 2015
Printing

6 Practical Ways to Boost Your Photography Business This Year

Tutorial • Beginner

Any one, small change could end up having a significant positive impact on your business. What one thing are you going to do boost your business this year?

Ben Lucas • 15 Jan 2015
Portrait Retouching

Old Picture, New Life: Adobe Photoshop Photo Restoration and Retouching Basics

Tutorial • Intermediate

Need to clean up an old photo? This tutorial will show you the best way in Photoshop CS6, with an emphasis on restoration.

Marie Gardiner • 12 Jan 2015
Compositing

Fakes, Frauds, and Forgeries: How to Detect Image Manipulation

Tutorial • Beginner

Image editing is a regular and accepted part of photography. Sometimes though, image manipulation is meant to deceive. Knowing how to determine whether an...

Dawn Oosterhoff • 8 Jan 2015