Photoshop
Digital Fashion Photography
Digital Fashion Photography Digital photography has made it possible for just about everyone to capture perfect moments in their lives easier and better than ever before. With the improvements of shutter speed, resolution, and ISO, make photography easier and more convenient for beginning and professional photographers alike to capture good images. Additionally, image editing software, [...]
Learn about Straightening and Cropping
Cropping and straightening use to be done during the printing process before digital photography came along. The photographer would adjust the enlarger, magnifying the image enough to put the unwanted element off the printing paper, or move the easel holding the printing paper in a way that horizontal and vertical lines would be parallel to the paper’s edges.
Learn About Dodging and Burning
Dodging and burning are options in a quality photo editor. But these are methods of manipulating a photograph invented many years ago by photographers in their darkrooms.
A History of Faking Photographs
People started to manipulate photographs nearly as soon as the first camera produced the first photograph.
Photo Editing Software for Free Online
As beginning photographers we may find that the software that comes with our cameras is enough. But as or skills grow we will want to learn how to better edit our photography in post production. There are a few programs that you can buy for less than $100, like Photoshop Elements. However, there is a fairly wide selection of editors out there that are available for free as freeware or open source. Here is a round up of a few of the better program that are available for free.
Selective Focus, or The Blurring of The Background
By manipulating the depth of field using the proper combination of aperture, shutter speed, and focal length, you can capture an image where the subject really stands out by causing the background to be out of focus. This is called selective focus.
Photochopping, not “Photoshopping”
Generally speaking, photochopping is about producing a visual joke, or parady. You might change a label, or add an element that’s out of place, to a picture. Even deforming a familiar scene, making it different but still identifiable. [...]
