Have you ever wondered how websites that sell clothing and others that sell cars change the colors of whatever it is they’re selling? You know what I’m referring to here. Pretend you’re looking at a Honda Civic on the Honda website and the default color is gray. Below the photo of the car are alternative […]
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Tips for Photographing Water Reflections at Night
When I head out for my usual photography excursions, I’ve noticed that I primarily think about what I’d like to take photos of. What I mean is, I pretty much have a basic idea of the object I’d like to photograph. For instance, if I’d like to take some pictures of a car, all my […]
How to Photograph Car Tail Light Trails at Night
After shooting portrait, landscape and wildlife photography, I would say that one of the most popular types of photography budding amateurs are interested in is night photography. Whether it be taking pictures of the moon, stars or cityscapes, night photography is downright cool. It’s interesting and it virtually doubles the number of things you can […]
A Creative Text Effect Using Blending Modes in Adobe Photoshop
The thing I love most about this text effect is that it’s so easy to pull off. There’s no special knowledge you need to accomplish what I’ll show you below, so if you can type out a few words and change a blending mode or two, you’re all set. I can see this type of […]
Wear Glasses? How to Easily Calibrate Your Camera’s Diopter
I can remember back years ago, I had very little idea of what was going on with my camera. I had recently purchased my first DSLR and instead of learning what things did, I simply fumbled around and pushed buttons in an effort to take a nice looking photo. I had already heard about the […]
How to Separate a Drop Shadow From a Layer in Adobe Photoshop
Did you know that you can separate certain layer effects from the layers you applied them to in Adobe Photoshop? No? Well, don’t worry about it. Not many people do, but the good news is that you can, in fact, separate these two things and what you can do with them after that is so […]
What’s the Slowest Shutter Speed For Handheld Photography?
I was having a conversation about photography last night with someone and I said something like, “I think it would help people a lot if they focused on the fact that photography is all about light.” And it really is. Without light, no one is taking any photos. Too much light can blow out or […]
How to Add Multiple Shapes to the Same Layer in Adobe Photoshop
I work with shapes in Adobe Photoshop nearly every day of my life. Even in the posts that I write for this blog, I oftentimes include shapes. You can see them as circles, squares and ovals around things I like to highlight in the many screenshots I share. Shapes are easy to use and are […]
Adding Advertising Impact to a Photograph with Adobe Photoshop
I’m sure you’ve seen all types of ads in magazines and the internet where photographs have been manipulated in many different ways. As a matter of fact, no “original” photo has probably ever been used in an ad. Something has always been done to each and every one. Whether it be simple color correction to […]
Softening Skin with Filters & Masking in Adobe Photoshop
By now, you probably know that there are many methods for softening skin in Adobe Photoshop. I’ve actually covered quite a few of these methods on this website. The thing is, it’s important to learn as many skin softening techniques as possible because you never know when bits and pieces of each technique may come […]
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