Mastering Blending Modes
Submitted by The Daily Photography of Andreas Manessinger » Blending modes are an often undervalued, but incredibly powerful tool, well worth mastering. See how they can be used. e.g. to fix badly lit images.
Fine Art Explained - The Show Is Over, Say Good-Bye
Submitted by The Daily Photography of Andreas Manessinger » In this second edition of "Fine Art Explained" I work on a composite, and I show you a clear and concise workflow. See me turn an unspectacular image into a dramatic work of art.
Fine Art Explained - Gasoline Alley
Submitted by The Daily Photography of Andreas Manessinger » I explain the reasoning behind my Photoshop work. See me work on "Gasoline Alley", find out why I do what I do, and how working like that can dramatically improve images.
Enhance local contrast with PhotoLift
Submitted by The Daily Photography of Andreas Manessinger » PhotoLift is a plugin to manipulate local contrast in an image. The tutorial shows how changing local contrast can accentuate texture and bring otherwise boring images to life.
Creating color depth in night scenes
Submitted by The Daily Photography of Andreas Manessinger » Night scenes frequently look flat. There is an overwhelming mixture of yellow and orange shades. Going B&W is only one alternative, the other is, to redesign the scene's colors. This tutorial shows how.
Create detail in noisy or unfocused images
Submitted by The Daily Photography of Andreas Manessinger » This technique is pretty effective on noisy images or images with focus problems that you nevertheless want to print in high resolutions. It does two things: accentuate what edges are there, and increase detail, but both without increasing noise. Of course this is invented detail, but sometimes it does not matter what details you have, it suffices that there is detail at all.
