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Straighten Horizon Line

By Paul Kerins | Published: March 24, 2012

Three easy methods for straightening your photographs. It is very easy to end up with a crooked photograph, especially when you are shooting hand-held. Even the most seasoned pro photographers make photographs that need to be straightened, usually this is because you are so focused on the subject, trying to a capture a moment that [...]

Selective Sharpening

By Paul Kerins | Published: February 2, 2012

Selective sharpening for print output. Sharpening photographs for prints is more subtle practice than sharpening JPEG or PNG files for the world wide web. Only certain areas of a photograph may require sharpening. A portrait or beauty photograph will most likely need selective sharpening, perhaps on the mouth, nose, cheek bones, hair, or eyebrows, and most [...]

Understanding Histograms

By Paul Kerins | Published: December 5, 2011

How to Use Histograms Introduction Probably the most useful as well as the least used and understood tool in your digital camera is the histogram. Histograms are the reason why I don’t have to bring my light-meter with me anymore when I am out photographing landscapes ( I will always use a light-meter when photographing [...]

Photoshop Performance Preferences

By Paul Kerins | Published: December 1, 2011

How to get the best performance out of Photoshop. The first thing everyone should do after installing Photoshop is set up their performance preferences. On a PC  go to menu “Edit”, “Preferences” > “Performance”, or “Photoshop” “Preferences” > “Performance” if you are using a Mac. The fastest way to access preferences is to use the [...]

Burning and Dodging, Non-Destructive Technique using a Fill Layer

By Paul Kerins | Published: November 26, 2011

How to burn and dodge in Photoshop. Back in the days before computers, blogs, digital images, and electricity ( well…, okay maybe not that far back ), photographers used a variety of special techniques in the darkroom to help their negatives reach the maximum in potential on photographic paper. Probably the most popular and most [...]

Brightening and Whitening Teeth

By Paul Kerins | Published: September 12, 2011

[ Video Tutorial ] How to use adjustment layers with quick mask in Photoshop. Brightening and whitening teeth using the quick mask with a hue/saturation adjustment layer. Remember to be careful to not go to far in your retouching. It is better to be understated than to have badly over done your photo editing. Sometimes [...]

Retouching Skin While Retaining Skin Texture.

By Paul Kerins | Published: August 31, 2011

[ Video Tutorial ] How to keep skin texture when retouching blemishes and lightening shadows, using the healing tool with the fade dialog box. The Fade Dialog Box, is one of the least well known of the tools available to Photoshop users, but it is the most powerful and exact tool for retouching skin and lightening [...]