Adobe Photoshop Photography Techniques

Photoshop's Eraser tool guide

Mike Otley explains how Photoshop's Guides, Grid and Slices can be used to create a grid showing us the useful rule of thirds composional layout.

The concept of high dynamic range processing has been around since 1997, but has started to increase pace in the digital photography world. Peter Bargh explains what it's all about and how you use it.

Caleb Daniels shows us how to create some artistic effects with poppies using Photoshop as his tool.

Images with large amounts of colour noise can lead to bigger files when using Jpeg compression, Matthew Page describes his technique for reducing the noise, without sacrificing detail.

Having read about a number of techniques to increase colour oomph, Matthew Page came up with a technique that involves switching to Lab mode and adjusting curves on the a and b channels.

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.

Matthew Page looks at a sharpening technique that's designed to give a little punch and undo some of the softness inherent in the DSLR sensor.

Matthew Page shows us how to create better black &amp; white conversions from colour files using the Lab mode and a gradient layer.</

Takui Neko shows you how to recreate colour infrared results digital without needing to use specialist film or processing

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

How to use Photoshop's Layer Masks to merge two images side by side, edge to edge.

Here's a simple trick showing how you can turn your friends into vampires.

To make sure eyes stay on your subject try adding blur to the background.

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.

This tutorial will show you how to add more punch to a sky in a photograph.

Takui Neko shares his Photoshop blending skills

How to change the tone of an image in Photoshop.

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

How to use Photoshop's Layer Masks to merge two images side by side, edge to edge.

Vignettes are a simple yet subtle way to guide the eye through a shot and here are four ways to create one.

Give images some drama in Photoshop by adding film grain.