Photography Techniques

You don't have to keep the same aspect ratio when saving and printing pictures. Sometimes an unusal format can enhance a photo. Peter Bargh prepares to stretch the format.

Enhance your black & white pictures with a few simple adjustments in Photoshop Elements.

We show you how to create an attractive heart effect in Adobe Photoshop Elements.

We show you how to create a realistic jigsaw puzzle out of one of your digital photographs

Philip Andrews uses Adobe entry-level image editing program, Elements, to tweak the pixels of some newly created pictures.

Use Photoshop Elements to make your images look like they were taken on old plastic camera.

Use Photoshop Elements to create a Christmas card.

Add a halo shadow effect around your still life subject to make it more three dimensional and appear to leap off the background. It's just like using a ring flash.

In this month's Photoshop Elements tutorial Peter Bargh shows you how to use one photograph of a sky to make a seascape style landscape.

In this, the last part in our our series of techniques using Paint Shop Pro to modify a Camper van, we add some neon lighting Try following our technique and then using it to max up your own car photos.

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.

Pick a location or just walk outside your house and see what interesting things there are to photograph a few minutes from your front door.

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

Learn how to take better snaps of your dog at the beach.

Make selections quickly with the Magic Wand tool.

You don't have to venture very far to find some water to photograph.

Learn how to make selections in Photoshop with the Quick Selection tool.

Ian Badley shares his advice on shooting sunrises.

Peter Bargh shows you how to make a simple crop tool, useful for deciding which part of a digital image to crop.

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

Part two of Edward Byrne's overview of the digital photo management process moves on to look at transferring images to a computer.