Photography Techniques

With the help of Lightroom, photographers can add important information into their image files.

How to watermark an image in Photoshop.

If you want to learn how to add watermarks to images then take a look at this tutorial.

Lean how to add watermarks to images in GIMP.

Karl Taylor has some essential tips that will keep you taking great photos even when there’s only a little bit of light in the sky.

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.

Peter Stevenson explains how photographers can benefit from prom mania.

Robin Whalley introduces Lightroom and explains why it's a piece of sofware photographers will find useful.

Fine Prints demand fine negatives - how do we get these without zone system processing? Barry Thornton has the answer using a two bath developer

Scanning pictures from books can cause unwanted problems. Peter Bargh shows you ways to get better results.

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.

Make selections quickly with the Magic Wand tool.

Andy Warhol’s work features one of the most recognisable styles of print in the art world and his silk screen prints of stars as famous as Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor are iconic. Here Michael Bates recreates the effect for using the free image editing program, Gimp.

Venture into the insects world with a few helpful tips and tricks from our specialist wildlife photographer Peter Madeley

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

John Gravett explains how shooting snow scenes in black & white can add so much more to an image.

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

How to add stars to any night sky in Photoshop.

In part one of our series for beginners Michael Jenkins gives advice on choosing and using cameras.

Sending pictures by email is easy with a tiny amount of computer knowledge

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