Vector versus bitmap
Photoshop and other software has two ways of representing images. They can be either bitmap or vector based. In fact...
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The ultimate tinting effect – Split Toning
One of my favourite after-printing effects back in my darkroom days was split toning. This process involved passing a completed...
Process without Photoshop
When Adobe Camera Raw was first introduced it sat squarely in the middle of the raw conversion process. Opening a...
Tagging your photos
Many photographers and stock libraries sort their thousands of images based on individual descriptive keywords that have been associated with...
Units of measure
The units of measure displayed on rulers, in the Info, Image Size and Canvas dialogues and used to establish text...
Adding motion blur
Photographers will be familiar with the technique of panning to introduce blur into the background behind a moving subject. Using...
Elements’ Export feature
Photoshop Elements users craving the same file output power that Photoshop users have with the Image Processor feature need look...
Three ways to white balance
Unlike other capture formats (TIFF, JPEG) the White Balance settings are not fixed in a RAW file. This means that...
Image Size scaling options
The Image Size dialog provides several options for manipulating the number of pixels in your photograph and how big it...