Photography Techniques

Barry Beckham guides you through steps in Photoshop to turn a snapshot of a car into a buffed showroom delight.

Barry Beckham turns an ordinary snapshot of a cafe into half cartoon.

Barry Beckham and David Rowley explain how layer masks work.

Photoshop's Custom Brushes explained

Photoshop's Crop tool explained

Using layers to make a quick composite image of balloons

A simple technique to combine a selection of photos using Photoshop to make a montage.

Using Photoshop's Marquee tool to make selections

How to use Photoshop's lasso selection tools.

A guide to Photoshop's Dodge, Burn and Sponge tools

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

If you've visted the coast make sure you clean your tripod.

Here are five popular tutorials on urban photography ePHOTOzine have published on site.

Light is not always what it seems. Peter explains about colour temperature.

Photographer Jacob James shares his tips on using LED lights for portrait work.

Having mastered the basic camera controls, you may want to become more creative with your camera. One easy way of doing this is by using different focal length lenses.

How to adjust shadows and highlights in Photoshop.

Tony Prower, better known on ePHOTOzine as the Happy Ostrich, explains how you to take photos of the Northern Lights.

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.

Will Cheung shares his advice on photographing dandelion clocks.

Making a colour ring around is one of the best things you can do if you are trying to master colour printing. Peter Bargh explains.