At Halloween last year I was asked to photograph some kids I’ve shot from time to time since they were born. Basically their mum likes to have some up to date photos of the kids and Halloween seemed like as good a time as any to get some shots. When I’m shooting like this, my [...]
If you’ve ever tried to crop an image to a fixed ratio in Photoshop you may have run up against an issue. There is, it appears, no option for cropping to a fixed ratio such as 4 x 6, 5 x 7 or even 1 x 1. You can crop to fixed sizes like 4in [...]
One technique I’ve seen used a lot lately on blogs, websites and even email newsletters is a hand drawn frame effect. In this post, I’ll show you how to create an effect like this and save and use it for your images. Step 1 Start with a new image in Photoshop. A good size frame [...]
We know that a lot of blog readers use Gimp and, in the interests of taking a step away from Photoshop for a minute, here are 5 of my top tips for working with Gimp. 1. Rounded corners Gimp makes it dead simple to round the corners of an image. To do this, choose Filters [...]
One hidden feature of the Lightroom print module is the ability to add a frame to an image. In this post I’ll show you how to add a frame to an image before exporting it as a JPEG image ready for uploading to the web or printing. In Lightroom 3 you can create an image [...]
A short while ago I wrote an article on using templates to create a collage or montage of images in Gimp. Sometime after, the templates that I suggested you could use were taken down from the original website. To help out our Gimp readers, I created a new set of templates and as I was [...]
Pin It A reader recently emailed me a couple of photographs of her children. Unfortunately, as often happens with small children, one image had two of the three children looking at the camera and smiling and the other image had the exact opposite combination – only one child looking great. Her question was – could [...]
In a previous post, I looked at content aware resizing in Photoshop CS4 which is the same as in CS5. I also mentioned the online application called Rsizr. Today I’m going to show you a plug-in for Gimp that does pretty much the same thing. The tool is called Liquid Rescale which you can download [...]
Some time ago I wrote a blog post called “Turn Ho-Hum Color into WOW! with Photoshop” which involved using the LAB color space to adjust an image. In the interests of those of you who use Gimp, this blog post is a revisit on the topic of dragging color out of lackluster images this time [...]
One task I perform regularly in Photoshop and Lightroom is to assemble multiple images on a single page for printing. I love displaying my photos, for example, as triptychs –which are three side by side images. I’ve posted before on the process in Lightroom here and here and today I’ll show you how to do [...]
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