Smart objects in photoshop are like putting on sunglasses – the world looks different when you wear them but really it’s just the same…take them off and voila the world looks just as it always did before… Smart objects are like that.. you put them on so all your edits are just like sunglasses – Read More
ICM Edit – Lymington Marina
When I was asked how I edited this I nearly just wrote a list of my photoshop layers then I realised maybe its more important to think – why I did what I did… When I look at the images at home I often have a video of the moment too so I can transport Read More
What Is Intentional Camera Movement….How To Get Started…
Just what it says on the tin – you move the camera on purpose. In ‘normal’ photography the aim is generally to keep the camera still – that’s why we use tripods on long shutter speeds because no human hand is that steady and so over multiple second shutter speed, you’ll see camera shake… In Read More
Pictorialism, Venus and Re-creating Nature
It’s photoshopped right? A total fake… No and sadly, ironically, that’s why I’ve never shared it anywhere because, well…sometimes life is stranger than fiction. It is real, I can even give the date and time, it was Sunday afternoon last winter on the eve of the Beaver Moon. With the sun going down behind me Read More
Tip to match colours precisely
Extract Colour From An Image and How To Use it… Copy the image you are working on and save it as JPEG then open up Adobe Colour Wheel and choose Extract Colour You’ll get information like mine below…. You can drag the little circles on the image around if you don’t like the colours it’s Read More
