Adobe Photoshop Photography Techniques

Use the gradient tool to enhance your dull landscapes

When you paste an object into another picture make sure it looks real with a natural shadow

Making the decision of whether to throw-away or enhance an image on the mind of Photoshop expert Aidan O'Rourke.

Aidan O'Rourke shows how to exclude elements that spoil the appearance or composition of the picture.

Entering the world of Photoshop for the first time, an introduction.

Here's ePHOTOzine's guide to photographing historical buildings.

Michael Bates shows us how Layers can be used in GIMP.

Zooming in with a telephoto and picking on detail is fun to do.

A 'rust fix' is something John Gravett likes to have every once in a while. Here he explains how you can shoot successful rust shots without too much effort.

Lean how to add watermarks to images in GIMP.

If you have to take photographs in the middle of the day make sure you make your own shade.

Michael Bates show us how to create a frosted glass border in GIMP.

David Clapp shares his tips on taking and processing infrared photographs.

If you take your camera to your local park you'll find plenty of interesting objects to photograph.

How to plan a photography walk and what to take with you.

Why is it when we go on holiday and need a passport photo we rely on that robot booth to churn out automated pictures at a tune of over £3 per shot? Peter Bargh shows you how to shoot, prepare and print pictures for your passport with ease.

The famous high key effect is one of the most interesting, yet simple, effects you can achieve in digital photography

Peter Bargh explains how you can use the valuable Layer Mask option of Photoshop to make better colour changes and selections, in this step by step image editing technique.

Photoshop expert, Terry Steeley, kicks off the first of a new series of tutorials for ePHOTOzine that looks at how to watermark our digital images to protect them from being used without our consent.

The eyes are one of the most important parts of a portrait, and usually the first thing we notice. Therefore, a small amount of enhancement on the eyes can go a very long way to producing a portrait with real zing.

Here Mark Galer explains one of the more sophisticated montage techniques available to Photoshop users that enables selective blending of pixels based on their tonal or colour value.

Takui Neko shares his Photoshop blending skills

Create starburst filter effects with ease using Photoshop's custom brushes

How to use Photoshop's lasso selection tools.

The aim of this tutorial is to turn a standard colour nude photograph, into a gritty and grainy one, redolent of classical art, as Duncan Evans explains.

Why is it when we go on holiday and need a passport photo we rely on that robot booth to churn out automated pictures at a tune of over £3 per shot? Peter Bargh shows you how to shoot, prepare and print pictures for your passport with ease.

As Halloween is just around the corner we're going to show you how to create a ghost like image.

Here's a quick tutorial which will show you how to use the Quick Mask Tool in Photoshop to make a selection.

Takui Neko shares his Photoshop blending skills

The famous high key effect is one of the most interesting, yet simple, effects you can achieve in digital photography

Learn how to put images into text with the help of Photoshop.

Takui Neko discovers a way to recreate those Polaroid Image Lifts using Photoshop.

Duncan Evans explains how to make those intrusive backgrounds fade away with graduated layers in Corel Paint Shop Pro XI

Barry Beckham and David Rowley explain how to combine several images into a montage with Photoshop.

Martin Evening was recently given the honour of appearing in the Photoshop Hall of Fame. Here he shows us how to use the Content-Aware Scaling tool in Adobe Photoshop CS4.