Tutorials
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Exposure, the 18% grey card, and the fluff in my tumble dryer
This article was originally written about five years ago but was never published on my web site, so I have slightly updated it to publish now. It is not a complete guide to exposure, which is a big subject, so I have included some links to simple and clear articles on various aspects of exposure and controlling depth of field on the excellent Cambridge in Colour, Luminous Landscape and other web sites. What is exposure? To beginners, exposure may be just a word, a strange concept that they haven’t come across in the context of their new hobby, so here is a simple definition (based on digital capture): “Exposure is the amount…
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Make a Facebook Cover Photo Collage
If you are fed up with being restricted to a single photograph as your Facebook cover photo, why not try a collage of pictures that show off your style? In the past, I’ve used a template given away freely, but today I decided to make my own, using Lightroom. Here are the instructions to make one: 1. Make a collection Select a few photographs that you will use for your shortlist…maybe ten or more. Add them to a collection. For this task, the quick collection will be good enough. In the grid view add photos to the quick collection by mouse-click on the little round symbol which appears when you…
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Building an Image – Northern Lights Deconstructed
When I’m doing a lecture, people often ask about how to do a particular technique. I don’t consider myself to be a Photoshop expert, so I usually give a name to the process, e.g. “layer mask” and suggest they put that term into Google and come up with a tutorial somebody has done on that process! There are some great tutorials out there to help you get started. So, for my Christmas Greeting this year I have built a Northern Lights e-card, based on a web tutorial at this link, though I didn’t quite follow the process in the tutorial, preferring to use the techniques I generally work with. I…
