Dark Side of the Lens

Buying your first, or a new, digital camera can be heaps of fun, but it can also be a bit of a nightmare if you don’t know the terminology or what features matter more than others.
Everyone wants a camera for their own reasons and, as with most things in life, there is no definitive answer [...]

Well, hopefully everyone has recovered from an excellent New Year by now. If not then good on you for having such a huge party!!!
As promised, here is the second video to complete our exploration of “levels” in Photoshop Elements

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Simon
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P.S. There might be a small delay [...]

I remember when I was first learning digital photo editing and I stumbled across something called “levels”. Some of my photos had looked grey and dull, though I did not realize it at the time, and these suddenly sprang to life as I learned how to use the levels adjustments in Photoshop.
Although not quite as [...]

Another in the series of video tutorials on layers in Elements 6, this time on “Adjustment Layers”.
There are several different types of adjustment layer, such as levels or hue & saturation. In this tutorial I demonstrate the use of an adjustment layer, using a hue & saturation adjustment layer as an example.
Don’t get too hung [...]

As promised, here is the second part of the video tutorial on layer masks.
Photoshop Elements does not include the layer mask functionality, in its native form at least. However, it does include adjustment layers, and these little beauties have their own layer masks. In this video I show you a rather clever trick whereby you [...]

As I mentioned in my last video, I see layers as being about the most powerful tool there is in Photoshop, Elements, and all the good photo editing packages.
Within the topic of layers there are two specific areas that I would define as being the most powerful aspects of layers. These are layer masks and [...]

I have had several requests from people (thank you) for some tutorials on using layers in Photoshop Elements. I had intended to leave this until a little later in the piece, but there’s no harm in bringing it forward a little, so here we go.
This first video explains the basic principles. Some of you may [...]

I have finally found the time to put up a set of better quality video tutorials for the three tutorials published so far. Yay!!!
The content is the same as the ones you will find in the main blog posts but they are now available in 800 x 600 as Quicktime movie files.

A bit of a gap since my last video, thanks to a nasty case of the flu doing the rounds robbing me of my voice (must have also affected my hearing as I didn’t hear anyone being sorry about that!). So, here we go with my latest offering.
Unless you frame every shot perfectly (can anyone [...]

Adjusting the colors in your image is an area of photo editing that many find time consuming and very confusing.  However, it need not be that way. Here I give an explanation of the RGB color space, which you will most likely find yourself using.
The principles discussed here apply to all photo editing software if [...]