Photography Techniques

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.

Having a wedding album which tells a story is very popular at the moment and here Patricia Fenn shows us how to create one.

Creating a card in Photoshop is easy and it will save you a few quid too!

A look at the various ways to tone a photograph using Paint Shop Pro X3.

Here's a simple technique to give your portrait photo a subtle hint of colour using the saturation setting of Paint Shop Pro X3.

How to seamlessly blend two different exposures from the same RAW file.

No longer will you need to navigate menus as Michael Bates shows us all the hotkeys we could ever need.

How to use Gradient Maps to create mono images in Photoshop.

Photoshop's Radial Blur filter can be used to simulate zoom burst effect. Here we've added one to a stained glass window.

Robin Whalley shows us how to create a HDR image.

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.

Running events are the perfect opportunity for you to capture some close-up, photographic action.

ePz teams up with site member Fran Ashton to share a few firework photography tips.

How to make objects in layers take on the shape of objects in lower layers

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.

Here's our first tutorial looking at Photoshop's Selection Tools.

Here's a quick overview on what the Color Pickers is for and how it can be used.

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

Make selections quickly with the Magic Wand tool.

Chris Hanley has an inexpensive trick for creating a white backdrop.

How to use Photoshop's lasso selection tools.