Photography Techniques

Here is a short tutorial on adding lens blur to an image in Photoshop.

Part 2 of our beginner's guide to photography Michael Jenkins suggests we look around a little more when pointing the camera at the subject

An image can look great in mono and it's easy to create in Elements.

Summer's here and flowers are blooming so it's a great time to obtain colourful pictures of gardens and parks. But before you nip out, consider our alternative approach.

When you take infrared photographs with a digital camera in the normal colour shooting mode they are processed with a red colour cast. Here's how you remove the cast using Gimp.

Michael Bates shows us how easy it is to replace the colours in such a scene without having to spend forever playing with the threshold.

John Gravett of Lakeland Photographic Holidays explains how and when to achieve this technique.

Learn how to save your images for the web, with the best quality and smallest file-size.

This tutorial will show you how to fix the lighting in an outdoor photograph using GIMP's colour and sharpening tools while maintaining a natural end result.

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.

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.

This tutorial will show you how to use GIMP to create a black border for your images.

See why we believe a tripod is an essential tool for photographers shooting landscapes.

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

Peter Bargh of ePHOTOzine shows you how to use Photoshop's Color Range tool to change a background.

Use the reflective light from the moon in your imagery.

Denise Ippolito shows us how to take great shots of flower petals with a lightbox and some simple post processing.