When you work with a wide angle lens there is some distortion inherent in the image. Tilt the camera up and it really rears its ugly head. Here are some thoughts on working through the problem. See this image article on noise reduction for the start of this photo. Distortion
Unlock the secrets to high-key portrait editing in Lightroom Classic and transform your images from flat to flawless! In this tutorial, I’ll break down the best Lightroom adjustments, exposure tweaks, and color grading techniques to achieve that clean, bright, and polished high-key look. Whether you’re editing fashion, beauty, product photography,
Are you a bit of a cloud chaser? Ever since I was a kid I loved looking at and watching clouds. Making shapes and just watching them float or in some cases fly by. On a recent holiday to Kangaroo Island (South Australia), I loved the wide open skies and
Using Firefly AI, Adobe has released Generative Fill in Photoshop Beta. It’s a great way to gain efficiency with altering, extending, or replacing content in your scene. It can even generate ideas from scratch with just some text inputs. Use it to get ideas or perform fine-tuning more quickly. The
Some of the newer features in Photoshop have not perhaps been greeted with as much enthusiasm as they deserve. They are mostly overridden by the WOW of Generative Fill and Adobe Firefly. But one that really ticks a lot of boxes for me is the Delete and Fill Selection option.
Candles are an essential part of many celebrations and occasions, and adding a flame to a candle can make it look more realistic and vibrant. With Adobe Photoshop, you can easily add a flame to a candle in just a few simple steps. In this blog post, we will guide
Many times, you are photographing a scene and it’s overrun by people! If you want to show the area sans folks, what do you do? Think ahead and shoot for a Median Stack in Photoshop. How to shoot Although you can handhold to make images for this technique, locking down
Coming from a landscape background, I learned to do most of basic my post-processing in Lightroom. As my photography continued to evolve over the last few years, I’ve kept a dirty little secret: I barely know how to do anything in Photoshop. Now that my client base has grown and
Have you been struggling with how to finish your portraits in Photoshop? Our friend Kristina Sherk has an exclusive freebie, just for Photofocus readers! With her Skin Retouching Tool Kit, you can get started with creating incredible portraits in a fraction of the time. You’ll receive Photoshop brushes, actions and
Luminosity masks are a great way to bring detail out in your photo. Learn how to create them using channels in Photoshop to improve your landscape photographs. What is luminosity masking? Luminosity masking is a way to separate out the tones in the photos (such as the highlights and shadows)
Using the Lasso tool in Photoshop for selections can be a little tricky if you’ve never used it before. But it is actually super simple. I put together a little video on the basics of the Lasso tool, in its different configurations and how you can quickly and easily remove
The Orton Effect is a photographic technique that blends two different photos of the same scene to achieve a mix of high and low detail areas. It essentially adds a gentle blur and glow to give a dreamlike quality to landscapes and portraits. It was originally conceived by Michael Orton
