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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Photo Editing

How to Use the Reduce Noise Filter in Adobe Photoshop

Tutorial • Beginner

Sometimes, particularly when shooting at a high ISO, a photograph can become grainy or noisy. This can add to a photo, but often it’s a pain and we’d like to...

Marie Gardiner • 31 Dec 2014
Image Correction

Tips to Speed Up Your Image Processing Workflow in Lightroom

Tutorial • Intermediate

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to use Lightroom sliders to get the most bang for the buck, how to synchronize settings between files, plus keyboard...

Andrew Childress • 19 Dec 2014
Image Correction

Balancing Skin Tone and Creating Skin Tone References

Tutorial • Intermediate

Skin tone varies widely between ethnicities and individuals. This tutorial teaches you how to use a precise method of colour management in Adobe Photoshop to...

Dawn Oosterhoff • 7 Dec 2014
Smartphones

How To Use Your iPhone Like A Pro: Post-Processing

Tutorial • Intermediate

There is more to post-processing than just slapping an Instagram filter on your photo. In this tutorial I'll take you through the three stages of...

Harry Guinness • 28 Nov 2014
Image Correction

Split Toning Colour Pictures in Photoshop: Theory and Practice

Tutorial • Beginner

Split toning involves tinting the shadows of an image in one colour and the highlights in another. Although mostly applied to black and white images, this...

Marie Gardiner • 14 Nov 2014
Portrait Retouching

How to Fix Unwanted Hotspots on Portraits

Tutorial • Intermediate

Bright light can sometimes cause unwanted glare on the skin. This tutorial shows how to compensate and fix those unseemly highlights.

Simon Plant • 25 Oct 2014
Printing

Fast, Fun, Professional Album Design With SmartAlbums

Tutorial • Beginner

For many photographers album design was a tedious drudgery that would take hours and even days to complete with cumbersome tools. This tutorial show how to...

Daniel Sone • 5 Oct 2014
Image Correction

Big Beautiful Grain Adds Atmosphere to Images

Tutorial • Intermediate

This tutorial turn the common wisdom about noise on its head and show you why we should show noise in images some love.

Simon Plant • 29 Sep 2014
Photo Editing

Creating the Orton Effect in Photoshop

Tutorial • Beginner

Create the stylised watercolour effect made famous by Michael Orton: an out-of-focus, highly saturated look with detail around the edges

Marie Gardiner • 19 Sep 2014
Compositing

Focus Stacking for Extended Depth of Field

Tutorial • Intermediate

Focus stacking is taking more than one photo of the same subject with a different part of the object in focus and combining them to make one photo. In this...

Marie Gardiner • 20 Aug 2014
Colour

Hot Pictures: Better White Balance With the Kelvin System

Tutorial • Beginner

Photographers know "Kelvin" as the system of arbitrary numbers we change in camera to correct our white balance. In this article, you'll find out what it all...

Ben Lucas • 13 Aug 2014
Black & White

Recreating the Lith Printing Look for Black and White Photos

Tutorial • Intermediate

One of the most beautiful print processes in black and white photography is lithographic printing. This tutorial recreates the "Lith" look using Adobe...

Simon Plant • 5 Aug 2014