Photography Techniques

Many cameras have a built-in flash which can be used in more creative ways than you may think as we explain.

What should you photograph in our hilly national parks? John Gravett finds out.

Spend some time at the seaside photographing on and at the beach.

The Replace Colour command in Photoshop is really easy to use but very effective. Here's how you use it.

Putting three photos in to a triptych in Photoshop is really quite simple, as you'll see in this tutorial.

Learn how to make a quick repair of an area with this tool.

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

Make selections quickly with the Magic Wand tool.

Not all blur is bad as you'll find out if you read this article.

Have a go at Dodging and Burning the digital way with the help of Robin Whalley's tutorial.

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.

Adding a frame to an image in Photoshop is easy and this tutorial will show you how to do it.

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.

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

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.

How to stitch images together to create panoramas in CS4.

Is there such thing as the right camera when it comes to shooting landscapes? Robin Whalley gets his compact out to put this theory to the test.

Take better photos by following these basic photography rules.

Here's a simple technique using your image editing program to turn a colour or back& white photograph into a silhouette.

You can create interesting images by simply moving several images into one document as this tutorial will show you.

Doug Jackson explains why rain shouldn't stop you from taking photos.