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If you’ve ever worked with Adobe Photoshop - or indeed any image manipulation package, you’ll know how easy it is to make small and big changes to a photograph. But do you know how you can spot if an image has been doctored or not? Do you know the difference between a doctored photograph and the genuine thing? Read the rest of the article »

So, they decided to exile Pluto from our little planetary club. What? Suddenly a planet less? Though this be madness, yet there is method in ‘t. Nonetheless, it’s getting a bit lonely down here, afting having an 11% decrease in number of planets to deal with over night.

So, we were most happy when we discovered that our old comrades over at PhotoJoJo had stumbled across a wicked solution: With the power of Photoshop, panoramas and more than a little bit of creativity, you can make your own planets - just like that! Read the rest of the article »

Do you ever look up at the sky, a towering office building, or an expansive landscape and wish your photos could capture everything you can see with your eyes? We do, so of course, there is a way to do it. Otherwise, why would we bother writing about it? :) Read the rest of the article »

Introduction

The Unsharp Mask is an old photography trick that has become available to ‘the common man’ through the introduction of digital editing tools such as Adobe Photoshop.

In this article, I will share with you my knowledge and experience of the Unsharp mask tool in the darkroom, and also a thorough introduction to its digital name brother, the Photoshop USM filter. Read the rest of the article »

Yeah, I know… It isn’t as if it is rocket science. You press apple + U, and the picture is nice and de-saturated. However, this also means that you have no control whatsoever about the final result of the image. Instead, a little bit of knowledge how RGB colours work will allow you to create some pretty impressive black and white photos from digital files… Read the rest of the article »

Often when you scan things, or take pictures, you discover after you see the picture on your screen that you were a few degrees off the horizon. Usually this doesn’t matter, and you can get away with cropping out the edges, and nobody will ever be able to tell. Read the rest of the article »