Technique

10 Useful Adobe Photoshop CS Text Effect Tutorials

Oct 10th, 2008 | By andrew | Category: Technique

I searched the internet for the best Photoshop CS text effect tutorials I could find. Learn how to create these wonderful and amazing effects.



Photoshop CS 3 Tutorial: How to Turn a Girl Into a Fairy in 9 Easy Steps

Sep 5th, 2008 | By andrew | Category: Technique

Have you ever seen a photo of a girl with wings and wondered how the photographer managed to turn her into an fairy? I’ll show you how (it’s easier than you think).



Photoshop CS Tutorial: How to Split Tone a Photo in 30 Seconds or Less

Aug 26th, 2008 | By andrew | Category: Technique

Photoshop CS does away with messy darkroom chemicals and lets you split tone black & white prints with just a few clicks of the mouse. I show you how to Split Tone a photo in 30 seconds or less.



Photographing Laura - A Flash Lighting Tutorial

May 28th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Technique

Part Two of my Photographing Laura series. Learn how I used a portable flash gun to light these photos.



Photographing Laura

May 11th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Technique

Part One: It’s been a long time since I’ve photographed a model. It’s something I used to do a lot when I was younger, but since then I started travelling and my photography shifted to a more documentary style.



Throwing the Rule of Thirds Out the Window

Apr 14th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Technique

I noticed something interesting while browsing Los Angeles advertising photographer Ryan Schude’s website…



How to Create a Diptych or Triptych With Impact

Apr 8th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Technique

A quick guide to creating diptyches and triptyches in Photoshop CS 3 and a nifty tip for visually tying the images together.
Browsing on Flickr a few weeks ago I came across a beautiful set of diptyches. Why do I like them so much? I think it’s because there’s a visual resonance between two wonderful photos that [...]



How To Quickly & Easily Embed Photos In Your Website Or Blog

Apr 5th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Technique

A short guide to quickly and easily embedding photos in your website or blog.
I quickly realised when designing & coding my website that it’s not easy to create a gallery for my photos. Coding by hand is very time consuming. Even using a flash application like Simpleviewer it still takes time to resize photos and [...]



Add Textures Using The Virtual Photographer Plug-In

Apr 1st, 2008 | By admin | Category: Technique

A quick guide to adding textures to your photos using the Virtual Photographer plug-in.
Photographer John Short recommended the Virtual Photographer Plug-In on page 41 of the April 2008 issue of Photography Monthly. The use of texture in digital photography is a popular trend so I thought I’d take a closer look at the plug-in.
The first [...]



10 Tips for Taking Extraordinary Travel Photos

Aug 22nd, 2007 | By admin | Category: Technique

I published this article on the JPGMag website today. JPGMag, if you didn’t know, is a photography site anyone can join and upload their photos and photography articles. The best of the best are published in a real magazine. A cool feature is that members can vote for the photos and articles they like. Here [...]