Hello — and welcome …..I’m Amanda, a photographic artist, researcher, and former allied health professional working at the intersection of creativity, physiology and emotion. My work wasn’t born in a studio or classroom — it emerged, quite unexpectedly, during a time of profound change. A few years ago, I was forced to step away from Read More
ICM and Multiple Exposure – the same thing or different?
I’m often asked if my images are multiple exposures or ICM (Intentional Camera Movement), and the answer is—in many cases—they are both. Multiple exposure is really just a generic term for any image that includes more than one exposure or shot. You can create these in-camera… I’m often asked if my images are multiple exposures Read More
Blending Using Analogous Colours
Analogous colours are basically colours next to each other on the colour wheel. If you’re not sure where to find the colour wheel – check out Adobe’s colour wheel (click here). The way I understood it best was this – analogous colours are like friends that share the same traits… blending naturally when put together… Read More
FREE Photoshop Brush to download…
Hello, I just read on Camversation that many of the wonderful brushes on the creative cloud are now no longer there… So I thought I’d start making and sharing… Here’s todays effort. If you have one that you need and love or have a special request give me a shout and I’ll see if I Read More
Editing From The Heart: Feeling The Essence
Maybe it’s a bit of a strange title for a blog about photoshop editing but, the truth is, it’s taken me a while to realise that editing and photography is, for me, more than capturing an image – it’s about the feeling, the essence of the moment. When I’m editing I’m not manipulating pixels, fixing Read More
Where to start?
Where do I start? That’s a question several folks have asked me this week… How to Start… Without Photoshop I would say… Start in your body and mind… FEEL. And I say “feel” for a reason. When I first started, I spent so much time focusing on being technical—thinking about composition, light, shadows, style… but Read More
Groups – Why Groups are SO powerful…
Groups are so much more than just a way of keeping your layers tidy in Photoshop. When you group layers together they now ACT TOGETHER – so if you group two images together they now move together are resized together with the transform tool and so on… You could apply an adjustment layer to the 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
