Editing Portraits – Part 1, Background
Posted by Claire Wade A few years ago I worked as a Digital Manipulator in a well known High street photographers. My job was to clean up the images and send them to print back at head office. Not only would I brighten the images, my duties also included digitally...
Dodge, Burn and Sponge – what are they for?
Posted by Claire Wade Adobe Photoshop and indeed, Elements, are such large programs that I’ll bet not many people know what the software is completely capable of. Do you ever look at some of the tools and wonder what exactly are you meant to do with them?...
Canvas Size, Image Size and DPI
Posted by Claire Wade During our last ‘Ask the Panel’ night, one question posed was “In editing software, what’s the difference between Canvas size and Image Size?’ A good question that the panel managed to answer without having any images to demonstrate the result....
Colour Popping in Adobe Elements
Posted by Claire Wade In this article I’d like to demonstrate how to colour pop in Adobe Elements. If you don’t know what colour popping is, it means making one part of your image black and white, with an area of it remaining in colour so that it stands...
Front of the Marychurch Centre (we use the side door)