Photography Techniques

<a href="http://www.hamrick.com/" target="_blank">Ed Hamrick</a> offers a few tips for organizing, scanning and archiving your photos and slides

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

Peter Bargh looks at a scanning technique to help you get better results from your high contrast transparencies.

Takui Neko explains how to prepare a photo ready to upload to the ePHOTOzine gallery.

Ever wondered how other people get their images published? Well there really isn’t any secret as Cheryl Surry explains.

In part four of our beginners guide to nature photography Ian Andrews looks at what can be achieved using specialist lenses.

ePHOTOzine member, Takui Neko shows us how to use Photoshop's Crop and Measure tools.

An alternative method to Photoshop's Unsharp Mask for image sharpening

If you're dreaming of a White Christmas look no further. We show you how to create a snow scene using Photoshop

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.

Having a little knowledge about how the camera's shutter speed works can help you obtain pictures with more impact.

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.

See how a hand-held light meter will help you get better exposures, even if you are using a digital camera.

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.

Once you grasp the basic principles of focusing your photographs will take on a whole new depth.

Attaching a neutral density filter to your camera lens will bring you several benefits, as Peter Bargh explains.

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.

Chris Burfoot AMPA shows us how to set up studio lighting.

Do you want to add a splash of rain to your image? Well here's how to do it in Photoshop.

Michael Bates shows us how the Makeover Tools in Paint Shop Pro X2 are great for beginners.

Leading landscape photographers Mark Bauer & Ross Hoddinott share their top tips on shooting landscapes.

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

Michael Bates shows us how to make a black and white image that doesn't appear to look flat and lacking in definition.

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

Robin Whalley shows us how to soft proof our images in Lightroom.

Robin Whalley goes looking for abstract shots in the city.

How and why should you use longer lenses for taking photos.

Photographer Drew Gardner shares five top travel tips for photographers.