The term “split-toning” actually comes from the good ol’ wet darkroom, where the toner acted only on certain areas of the print, the middle or low values, while leaving the rest of the print with no color change. Today’s ‘Photoshop Monday’ Video Corner looks at duplicating the split-toning technique using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. This technique works especially well when printing black and white images on color printers. Read more »

In our continuing mini-series in the ‘Photography Thursday’ Video Corner’s produced by Tamron, we take a closer look at the aperture, and how it effects exposure and depth of field.

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The “Orton Effect” is a technique created by Vancouver Island photographer Michael Orton (pre-computer post-processing, I might add) that gives photographs a dreamy, surreal feel to them (great for romantic photographs, baby photographs, etc). Initially this technique involved taking 2 separate photographs - a normal one and a slightly over-exposed and out of focus one, then sandwiching them together in the darkroom. Now, with programs like Adobe Photoshop, we can easily create the “Orton Effect” using one photo and a couple of quick adjustments (see the Corner Resources Center for a tutorial on Simulating an Orton Slide Sandwich). The video below walks us through two different methods of achieving the “Orton Effect” in Adobe Photoshop. Read more »

In our continuing mini-series in the ‘Photography Thursday’ Video Corner’s produced by Tamron, we take a quick look at auto focus - what it does, how it works, and how to use it properly. Read more »

Today’s ‘Photoshop Monday’ Video Corner looks at the popular technique simply known as “HDR” (High Dynamic Range). HDR is a technique that allows a greater dynamic range of luminances between the lightest and darkest areas of an image. This wider dynamic range allows HDR images to more accurately represent the wide range of intensity levels found in real scenes, ranging from direct sunlight to faint starlight. The tutorial today uses Adobe Photoshop CS3, but the techniques used should work in Adobe Photoshop CS2 through CS4, and can also be duplicated in some other image processing programs. Read more »

Today’s ‘Photography Thursday’ Video Corner is an introductory video to a series we’ll be tracking with, produced by one of the Premiere sponsors here at the Corner: Tamron. Today’s video is short, and really just an introduction, but over the next couple of weeks (on Thursdays), we’ll get into some more meaty videos.  Read more »

Today’s ‘Photoshop Monday’ Video Corner is an addendum to Video Corner #18: How to Add Reflections in Photoshop. In today’s video, we look at adding textures to simulate the reflection on a variety of surfaces using Adobe Photoshop. Read more »

Almost all photographers enjoy landscape photography, but often struggle to get their photographs to look fantastic. Today’s ‘Photography Thursday’ Video Corner offers up some great tips that should help you improve your landscape photographs. Read more »

If you’re a stock photographer or you frequently shoot objects on an isolated background, today’s ‘Photoshop Monday’ Video Corner will be of special interest to you as we look at the “Refine Edge” function added to Adobe Photoshop in version CS3 (also available in CS4). Read more »

Today’s ‘Photography Thursday’ Video Corner looks at some tips and tricks when photographing a common toad, then critiques a couple of the photographs taken during the shoot. Read more »

Today’s ‘Photoshop Monday’ Video Corner looks at using the ‘color range’ feature in Photoshop as a way of selecting an object instead of using the magic wand or the marquee tools. It’s a quick and easy method of selecting objects that could save you tedious hours using the magic wand. Read more »

Twice a week, on Monday and Thursday, the Corner Blog features a new photography or post-processing instructional video (the “Photoshop Monday” and “Photography Thursday” Video Corner videos). We’ve been posting up a new video twice a week for about half-a-year so far, and based on the number of views and reactions, they are consistantly among the most popular blog posts each week. For those that are new to the site or haven’t been following along, we’ve got the first bunch of “Photography Thursday” vidoes listed below for you to catch up on. Everything from how to use lighting properly, to equipment, to tips and techniques for photographing specific animals, insects and birds. Enjoy! Read more »

Twice a week, on Monday and Thursday, the Corner Blog features a new photography or post-processing instructional video (the “Photoshop Monday” and “Photography Thursday” Video Corner videos). We’ve been posting up a new video twice a week for about half-a-year so far, and based on the number of views and reactions, they are consistantly among the most popular blog posts each week. For those that are new to the site or haven’t been following along, we’ve got the first bunch of “Photoshop Monday” vidoes listed below for you to catch up on. On Thursday, we’ll do a recap of the first bunch of “Photography Thursday” videos, and we’ll start back in with new videos next week. So open up Photoshop and Lightroom (or other equivalent post-processing programs), and start learning some of the great techniques listed below! Read more »

In the final “bird photography” ‘Photography Thursday’ Video Corner we take a look at photographing sea birds - specifically puffins. If you’re interested in looking back, the past bird photography videos are:

• Video Corner #47: How to Photograph Garden Birds
• Video Corner #49: Setting up a Pond for Garden Bird Photography
• Video Corner #51: Photographing Birds in Song
• Video Corner #53: Photographing Birds of Prey
• Video Corner #55: Photographing Woodland Birds

As always, we’ll take a look at some tips at capturing the photographs, then look at some of the photos taken during the shoot to critique them. An outline of the tips are listed below the video. Read more »

Today’s ‘Photoshop Monday’ Video Corner shows us a really simple and easy way to resize images in Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop by making the longest edge of the image a specific width or heigh (using the ‘fit image’ function). While it may seem simple, it’s a particularly useful method for batch resizing for printing or sharing photos online. Read more »

This week, in our continuing look at “how to photograph _____ birds” in the ‘Photography Thursday Video Corner videos, we look at photographing woodland birds - specifically woodpeckers. We’ll learn how to position and set a log and a hide, as well as some tips on what equipment to use. Read more »

Adobe Photoshop is a very comprehensive program, full of hundreds of tools most photographers will probably never use. A couple of weeks ago in Video Corner #44, we took a look at how to create a web gallery with Adobe Lightroom. In our ‘Photoshop Monday’ Video Corner today, we check out one of those less-used tools to create a flash web gallery with Adobe Photoshop. Today’s video also discusses actions, so if you’re not familiar with using and creating actions, you may want to watch through Video Corner #50: How to Create Actions in Photoshop.
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Today’s ‘Photography Thursday’ Video Corner looks at photographing birds of prey, both still and in-flight. While the barn owl is the main subject of the video, these tips and techniques discussed (and listed below) can easily be applied to other birds as well. Read more »

The first ‘Photoshop Monday’ Video Corner of 2010 is all about batch processing photographs. When it comes down to it, using actions and batch processing will help you optimize your photography post-processing workflow. If you haven’t already, make sure to watch through Video Corner #50: How to Create Actions in Photoshop, as the video today assumes you know how to create and use actions in Photoshop. Once you’ve watched the video from last week and are comfortable using actions in Photoshop, we’ll look at doing batch photo processing using Adobe Photoshop, then we’ll see how to do the same thing in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. Read more »

The last Video Corner of 2009 takes a look at photographing song birds. The video below discusses some techniques, tips and tricks on how to photograph song birds, then looks at and critiques several photographs taken from the photo shoot. A list of the tips and techniques discussed are listed below the video. Read more »