How To Read Histograms

How to tell with a quick look at a histogram display whether an image is correctly exposed and contrasting. Hello and welcome to this tutorial. I will be outlining some of the information you can read straight off a histogram with very little understanding of what it is showing. It is a very underused tool,...

Auto Levels

Hello and welcome to this tutorial on Level Adjustment. At first, Auto Levels may seem crude and hard to use effectively. Learn how to enhance images easily with this tool in just a few steps. Stock: from Rod L. As you can see, this shot had the potential to be good, but poor light and camera adjustment...

Lith Prints

How to recreate an old Lith-style print with a few simple steps. In this tutorial, I am going to try and reproduce a lith-style print. Lith printing has a distinctively warm tone and grain, high contrast and some film grain. Open a picture to work with, and Ctrl + Shift + U to desaturate it. If you are...

Sun Prints

Quick and easy tutorial to creating an accurate Sun Print. It has been long known that leaving negatives on specially treated paper in sunlight causes an exposure. Later versions of the paper also had the toning salts incorperated, so no other developing process was needed. The typical results of this...

Faking Depth Of Field

A few simple processing tricks to fake Depth Of Field in Photoshop. In this tutorial, I will show you how to easily ’fake’ depth of field in Photoshop, rather than with your camera itself. While there are other methods which may be used to create this effect, mine will only work in Photoshop CS and...

Advanced Portrait Retouching

In this tutorial you will be learning the intricacies of real-world photography touchups and manipulation. Follow photographer Mitchell Kutney as he shows you step-by-step his workflow of manipulating close-up portraits…[more] Alrighty, this is what we have to work with – a high resolution...