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I find using Apple‘s iCloud Photo Sharing service really useful for sending your favourite moments to all you favourite people. The service not only lets you share Photo Streams with other people using an iOS device, i.e. iPhone and iPad owners, but the service also provides you with a... Read more
Need A Photo Editing Suite? Get PhotoDirector
Photo and Image EditingSoftware Reviews December 2, 2014
Corel’s PhotoDirector is a complete suite for all your photography needs. The application includes photo management and advanced adjustment & creative editing tools. PhotoDirector’s photo management software will give you the tools that will assist you to rapidly sort through your images and locate the ones you need. PhotoDirector provides... Read more
How to Use the Gradient Editor in Photoshop
How ToPhoto and ImagePhoto and Image Editing December 1, 2014
Using gradients of colour in Photoshop often produces very pleasing, professional results, mainly because producing nice smooth transitions between the colours is something a digital platform does very well. The Gradient Fill Tool in Photoshop, located on the left hand sidebar, sharing the same button as the Paintbucket Fill... Read more
How to Use the Extrude Filter in Photoshop
How ToPhoto and ImagePhoto and Image Editing December 1, 2014
In recent versions of Adobe Photoshop, more geometrical effects have been added to the default filters library. One of the eager newcomers is the Extrude filter. This takes any selection, image or layer and pushes it outwards using a series of cubes or pyramids. It’s one of those new... Read more
Commercial 3DMe Photo Booth Announced
NewsPhoto and Image November 29, 2014
Imagine having a 3D model of yourself to send to your parents to keep on top of the television, fireplace or even their dresser! Gone are the days where you took photos with your friends in a photo booth. Now you can print a 3D selfie/groupie. 3DMe Photo booth... Read more
How to Position Elements in Photoshop
How ToPhoto and Image November 25, 2014
A place for everything and everything in it’s place, said someone a long time before Photoshop was even thought of, but it applies as much now as it ever has. Placing elements correctly is essential for a polished final product. How many times have you noticed a misaligned element... Read more
Adobe Lightroom 5.7 Released
NewsPhoto and Image EditingSoftware Reviews November 23, 2014
Lightroom is Adobe’s state-of-the-art professional photo development, manipulation and organization software. Lightroom’s powerful features enable users to transform RAW photographs into beautiful images of any kind. Sharpness, contrast, tone, white-balance and color can be adjusted in fine detail manually or through a large range of default and downloadable presets.... Read more
How to Create Preset Templates in Photoshop
How ToPhoto and Image November 22, 2014
When you open a new document in Photoshop, do you take advantage of the preset document options? Or do you do what many users do and just click OK, set your image name as Untitled-1 and then change your image options later on in Photoshop itself? If you are... Read more
We all love our Smartphones don’t we? And with the amalgam of phone and camera we are now all budding shutterbugs. Whether your choice of weapon is iOS, Windows or Android, you always keep your favourite handset close by, just in case you need to snap that perfect picture.... Read more
How to use Custom Brushes in Photoshop
How ToPhoto and ImagePhoto and Image Editing November 20, 2014
Many users only ever use the circular brush tool in Photoshop and miss out on one of the most satisfying ways of freehand digital drawing and a quick, simple way to create interesting effects. Click on the brush tool on the left hand toolbar, it’s the eighth one down,... Read more
How to use Photoshop History States
How ToPhoto and Image November 19, 2014
We all make mistakes, unfortunately life doesn’t have an undo button, but don’t worry Photoshop does, so at least when it comes to images you can go back and change your mind. This can be particularly useful if you are working on a complicated image and just want to... Read more
How to Create Animated GIFs in Photoshop
How ToPhoto and Image November 17, 2014
There’s still room on the internet for an old school animated GIF, especially if you can create your own bespoke ones to slip into emails or instant messages, and it doesn’t take much technical knowledge to create one, in fact Photoshop does it with ease. Open any image in... Read more
How to Navigate & Zoom Images in Photoshop
How ToPhoto and ImagePhoto and Image Editing November 14, 2014
With the mega pixel count on cameras getting higher and higher, and the display resolutions on monitors and televisions increasing to suit, the image sizes we now work with are significantly higher than they ever used to be. This can bring with it a few navigation issues when you... Read more
Street Photographer Proves Smartphones are Conversation Killers
InternetMobileNewsPhoto and Image November 11, 2014
When was the last time you were out with friends and family and managed not to look at your phone even once? Most of us will probably not be able to remember. It does raise the issue of whether technology is making us all anti-social, a point that street... Read more
Amazon Prime Members Now Get Free Unlimited Photo Storage
InternetNewsPhoto and Image November 8, 2014
I don’t know about you, but for me, the benefits of having an Amazon Prime account are starting to outweigh the benefits of not having one. I had a free 30-day trial some time ago and enjoyed it, but ultimately decided to save my money. I’m starting to reconsider.... Read more
Sometimes you don’t want to spend hours creating the perfect image, you don’t want to carefully fix every small mistake and make the most convincing photo collage the world has ever seen, sometimes you just want to stick someone’s head on someone else for humorous effect. Here’s a quick... Read more
All images, like onions, have many layers, in a photo these layers are flattened, but they are still there, the sky, the foreground, the subject, all fall into different planes and the mind splits them up. If you are trying to give the impression of layers in an image,... Read more
How to use the Stained Glass Filter in Photoshop
How ToPhoto and ImagePhoto and Image Editing October 31, 2014
All graphics packages come with pre-set filters that new users like to play with when they first get the package, but then never use again. Let’s face it, if everyone used the default filters, with all images subjected to the same process, it would turn the internet into a... Read more