Dark Side of the Lens

Here we go, another video from the EasyPSE iPhone/iPad video tutorial app, available on the Apple iTunes Store.   I recall when I first came across "Levels", many moons ago, I was blown away but how easily, and quickly, I could make this one simple change and have my photos immediately jump in quality.  Unless [...]

Yet another video from the EasyPSE iPhone/iPad video tutorial app, available on the Apple iTunes Store.  I've produced a video in the past on understanding RGB but revisited it for the EasyPse app. Understanding how colour works, in the digital world, is essential when it comes to tweaking the colour in your images.  This concept [...]

Another video from the EasyPSE iPhone/iPad video tutorial app, available on the Apple iTunes Store Giving your photo a frame can often make it come to life, really popping off the screen.  Rather than using the more traditional frames, in this tutorial I crete a simple, modern, frame but also tweak the photo, and make [...]

Another sneak preview into the upcoming Easy PSE series of video tutorials, which I hope to launch later this week! This tutorial covers the Clone Stamp Tool.  This is a very useful tool indeed, as well as being heaps of fun, and if regularly used by photographers, and other Photoshop Elements users, to tidy up [...]

With the upcoming iPhone/iPad App, later to be released on Android and as a video eBook, about to launch, I thought I’d give you all a sneak preview of one of my new videos. I have chosen this particular video to share first as it was requested (thanks Vickie) on the new Dark Side of [...]

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 [...]

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 Questions, problems or comments please simply drop me a line. Simon http://darksideofthelens.com P.S. There might [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]