A few weeks ago I watched a video about how to create a sunset glow in Photoshop and thought I would give it a try. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cc9-iQBMSI Even though I didn't go as extreme as the video showed me how to...…

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A few weeks ago I watched a video about how to create a sunset glow in Photoshop and thought I would give it a try. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cc9-iQBMSI Even though I didn't go as extreme as the video showed me how to...…
It is that time again for Stacy Fischer's One Photo Focus Photography Challenge, and this being the last one for 2015.... my god where has this year gone. I can't believe it is December already. I wanted to create something…
Doesn't a month soon fly by... before I realised it, it was already the end of October and time to think about the November Monthly Photo Challenge set by Stacy Fischer of Visual Venturing. When I first looked at this…
Yes it is time for Leanne Cole's Monochrome Madness Week Number 29 post.... I missed last weeks entry ... MM 2-28, which I am annoyed with myself about... but I thought I would get this weeks entry to her rather quick...…
Just the other day I stumbled across a Photo Challenge hosted by Stacy Fischer of Visual Venturing. The challenge is to take a photograph submitted by another photographer and process it in your own style. The original photograph (set of…
Well you have all guessed by now, my forte in Photography is fine-art... I love adding texture and I love playing around in Photoshop. But one of the things that I find hard is masking, especially when you get a…
As many of you may have gathered, lately I have been doing a lot of photographs of flowers we have taken and added a black background to them. Yes you could use Photoshop, create a black background and then mask…
You can read the full tutorial about Using the Lightroom Adjustment Brush to add Dimension to a Landscape Photo by clicking here
I had read a post about reverse processing on another blog.... and thought I would give it another go. The reverse processing image came out pretty good except for the sky... It was dismal and had no drama to it..…
Now I don't know about you, but I have to keep my original photos on an external drive, due to the size of my photograph library... Lightroom is great for this because you can build smart previews of your original images and Lightroom allows…
Yesterday I produced a photograph of a snowy landscape and added an effect to the photograph to make it look like it was snowing... Today I wondered if there was a way I could take a photograph I took ages…
For this Week's Photo Challenge - Silhouette, I thought I would enter a photograph we took back in July when we visited the New Forest. We sat on a hillside and watched the sun go down and as we were about…
As part of the Weekly Photo Challenge: Texture, I have used the above picture as the texture of the brickwork gives a nice backdrop to this sole yellow flower amongst a mass of purple flowers.
Entered as part of the Weekly Photo Challenge: Containers - Taken at Upnor Castle, Near Rochester in Kent.
Reculver Entered as part of the Weekly Photo Challenge - Relic
Another tool in Lightroom I use regularly is the graduated filter... again you have many options with this tool, including exposure, contrast, tint, temperature and you can even add colour. But one thing I found with the graduated filter tool…
Photography isn't just about going out and snapping photographs and posting them on a blog... photography has to be about fun... enjoyment and experimentation. Now experimentation doesn't just to have to be achieved with holding a camera in your…
Has to be the Radial Filter The radial filter wasn't introduced into Lightroom until Adobe released their Version 5 of Lightroom. And how I am glad they did bring us this feature. I use it regularly... in fact I think…
Layers in Photoshop for Beginners - PLP #127 - YouTube. http://photoserge.com
How to Retouch Monuments in Lightroom & Photoshop - PLP #126 by Serge Ramelli - YouTube. http://photoserge.com
Graduated Filter - Matt's tip One of the blogs I follow religiously is Lightroomkillertips, and I would recommend following this blog if you use Lightroom.. Apart from Matt giving you free presets to work with, he also gives some great…