Creating an old-style image in photoshop
Posted by Claire Wade This tutorial is done in photoshop, however, most photo editing software has similar capabilities and you should be able to get an idea how to do this in other programs. The desired effect is to make the photo appear as though it was taken around...
Editing Portraits – Part 2, Skin
Posted by Claire Wade In part one of this series I showed covered cropping and cleaning up the background of a portrait image. If you have not seen this article and would like to, please click here. In this part I’m going to cover brightening up the image and...
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?...
Front of the Marychurch Centre (we use the side door)