Browsing all articles by Kenneth Setzer.

Discover Seven Ways to Create Sepia Images in Photoshop

Like most things in Photoshop, there are probably a half dozen ways to simulate a sepia tone image. What probably comes to mind when you hear sepia is most likely “old-time” photographs. But why is that so? Well, sepia toning was used for a few reasons, artistic and more prosaic. True sepia toning began around [...]

Enrich Black without Affecting Overall Contrast

Sometimes black and very dark tones in a photo can appear a little weak or washed out. There are a lot of ways to correct this, but some methods can sometimes cause other unwanted changes in your photo. I’d like to present a way I came across recently to increase the density and saturation of [...]

RAW Creativity

Most articles on the RAW digital photo format will most likely be about how crazy you are not to be capturing your images in RAW format if your camera supports it. While I do tend to agree, there is more to RAW than just converting images to other file formats. Adobe’s Camera RAW (ACR) plug-in [...]

How to Create Black & White Images from a Single RGB Channel

Even with the incredible ranges of colors available to digital photographers and illustrators, there is still something magical and sophisticated about the stark simplicity of a black and white image. The lack of color allows the viewer to focus on elements like shadows and highlights without the distraction of color interactions. Black and white photos [...]

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