Photography Tutorials

Make a splash with your photography as digital photography expert Gavin Hoey demonstrates the strobist set up required to capture the beauty hidden in a drop of water.

Post Pic Graphic Design Pro Action – Lighten/Darken On 06.17.09, In Freebies, by Chris This is an action that I made myself and have been using for about 3 years for professional image retouching. The beauty of this action is that you can selectively lighten and darken a photo without washing the color out of the photo or producing high levels of noise. The effects this can have on a photo are limitless, and can effectively make any picture look correctly exposed or even add a little bit

This week David duChemin critiques an image of a young girl at a birthday party.

Learn how to create time lapse photography without an expensive camera.

Tune in for this week's image critiques from David duChemin. You'll hear about lighting, color depth, foreground, and background, as well as the importance of a photo's focus.

If you are new to screen printing, you may not know where to begin when it comes to getting artwork ready for printing. Separating images into colors is an important step. Luckily Photoshop makes this pretty easy. I am going to show you how in just a few easy steps.

David duChemin critiques two more images submitted on the Within the Frame flickr group. David talks about the potential for the first image to become iconic. David's critique of the second image focuses on lighting and the importance of POV (point of view).

In this inaugural episode, David duChemin explains the concept and scope of series. Then David critiques two images and covers concepts such as composition, quality of light, and combining foreground and background to create depth in an image.

This video based Adobe Photoshop signature tutorial teaches you how to use smudging to create background effects, helping you learn how to create a simple forum signature with a strong focal.

I thought I’d write this short and hopefully straightforward article to explain the basics of photography in a way that should make sense to any beginner. There’s an awful lot of complicated and technical information out there that can be overwhelming when you first start out learning about photography. I know from experience that you want to be out there taking shots, and there really is no better way to learn than that, so I've tried to keep this article as concise as possible.