Photography Techniques

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

The Crop tool is a basic but useful tool that's available in Photoshop. Read on to see what it's used for.

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

Robin Whalley shows us how to use Healing Tools in Photoshop.

We show you how to create Warhol style Pop Art using Photoshop and a dandelion photo.

David Clapp shares an alternative technique for creating Autumn shades in Photoshop.

Learn what layer masks are and how to use them with the help of Robin Whalley.

Read David Kaplan's advice and learn how to take breathtakingly-good landscapes.

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.

Learn how to use the Paste into and Layer mask options in our advanced Photoshop masterclass step by step guide.

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.

Peter Bargh explains what polarising filters are, how they work and provides a series of tips to get the best out of them.

Robin Whalley shares his travel photography tips.

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