Photography Techniques

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

Sometimes, adding a bit of spark to eyes can improve a portrait greatly. Here's how to do it in Photoshop Elements.

How to improve skin colour with the help of Photoshop Elements.

Use Photoshop Elements to create a Christmas card.

Turn your boring landscapes into interesting black and whites with this tutorial.

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

Adobe's budget version of Photoshop, Photoshop Elements has a few new tricks up its sleeve including an image stitching mode.

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.

How to add warmth to an image in Photoshop Elements.

When you've taken a portrait and the background lets it down, there's only one thing to do and that's remove it. This tutorial will show you just how easy it is to remove the background from an image and create a new one.

Here's ePHOTOzine's guide to photographing historical buildings.

Michael Bates shows us how Layers can be used in GIMP.

Zooming in with a telephoto and picking on detail is fun to do.

A 'rust fix' is something John Gravett likes to have every once in a while. Here he explains how you can shoot successful rust shots without too much effort.

Lean how to add watermarks to images in GIMP.

If you have to take photographs in the middle of the day make sure you make your own shade.

Michael Bates show us how to create a frosted glass border in GIMP.

David Clapp shares his tips on taking and processing infrared photographs.

If you take your camera to your local park you'll find plenty of interesting objects to photograph.

How to plan a photography walk and what to take with you.

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.

The famous high key effect is one of the most interesting, yet simple, effects you can achieve in digital photography

See how a hand-held light meter will help you get better exposures, even if you are using a digital camera.

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.

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.

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.

Chris Burfoot AMPA shows us how to set up studio lighting.

Duncan Evans turns back the clock to the golden age of Hollywood star portraiture.

We show you how backlighting your photographs can help create shape using the rim lighting technique

This article lists some simple tips you can use to make your photos stand out.

Here are five popular tutorials on urban photography ePHOTOzine have published on site.

How to photograph someone writing their name with a sparkler

Turn your bright sky into night with the help of Photoshop.

Bursting water balloons is fun to do and great to photograph.

There's as much skill required in organising groups at a wedding as there is sorting out exposure and composition. Our guide will help you become ringmaster

Robin Whalley's river photography tips.

Robin Whalley shares his travel photography tips.