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Today’s tip is a quick one regarding the relationship of colour models. You are most likely most familiar with the RGB colour model as this is used in most computer applications, your digital cameras, monitors, etc. Another very common colour model comes from the print industry, CMYK. If you are using Adobe Photoshop Elements, you …
Many of the software packages that come with digital camera’s as well as a lot of the photo editing software applications have features that let you stitch a series of images together to create a panoramic shot. There are a few steps you want to take before hand though to be sure you have some …
I would like to thank everyone for their patience over the past little while when I was getting married. I know that the tips had stopped, but hopefully the reviews Graham included in the newsletter were beneficial. I had very little activity on my own website in that time as well and have resumed regular …
Last week I talked about rating images in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, and in the past also talked about using keywords. Both features can be used together to help find images within your collection. Lightroom still has more though. Two other methods for sorting your images are use of color labels and of flags. With color …
I’ve mentioned in a previous tip using keyword tagging within Adobe Photoshop Lightroom to help keep your photos organized. Another organization method in Lightroom is through the use of it’s rating feature. You can assign a rating from 1-5 stars for each image that you create. Later, you can filter your images using those ratings, …
Today’s tip is a simple one, yet effective one. A bride and groom can be one of the hardest subjects to expose well. The bride is usually dressed in a very white gown and the groom, a very black tuxedo. Together it is an exposure nightmare. One trick to helping with this is to place …
The old saying is April showers bring May flowers. Today I offer a couple tips to help you capture the beauty in those flowers. 1. Try to avoid full sun. Shooting in full, midday sunlight will produce high contrast photos with distracting shadows. If you have to shoot in these conditions, try to use a …
Today’s tip is another tip for Adobe Lightroom users. The third tip that I wrote dealt with organizing your images. Today’s tip is how Lightroom can help you with that. Using the Library Module in Lightroom, tagging images with keywords could not be any easier. With your thumbnails visible, select an image or a series …
This week’s tip is about controlling the brightness of your background when using your on camera flash. Controlling the brightness of your background relies on a little technical knowledge, the inverse square law. The brightness of the flash output is relative to the inverse square of the distance from the flash from the subject. Sounds …