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Making composite images in Photoshop

Whether you love 'em or hate 'em, composite images are part & parcel of modern commercial photography, and it's easy to see why, writes Jon Adams. Not having to have everything in front of the camera at the same time in the same place gives enormous advantages regarding time, budget and all-round cr...

Enhance iPhone snaps like RAW files

We are all creatures of habit, and many of us will be comfortable with the RAW conversion process in Lightroom or Adobe Camera Raw, writes Jon Adams. It becomes part of the image workflow when we get back from a shoot with our cameras. So what happens when you want to make some enhancements to a JPE...

Processing a fine art snowdrop image

While the weather is positively tropical this week, just last week parts of the UK were blanketed in snow, writes Andrew James. This gave me the chance to keep a watchful eye out for an image I've wanted to get for a few years now but without success - a snowdrop seeming to grow out of the snow itse...

FM Judging: Textures

A terrific set of images were entered in the textures-themed Foto Mission to give Andrew and Jon a real headache to pick the top three. Catch up with the comments and chat...

How to edit an image in Lightroom’s library mode

Most of your processing efforts are naturally going to take place in Lightroom's Develop Module, but did you know you can also edit while still in the Library Module, writes Andrew James?

Why f/2.8 is great, mate…

For those of you with lenses that enable you to shoot at f/2.8, here’s a question (two actually) we’d like to ask you, writes Andrew James and Jon Adams. Why do you shoot at f/2.8 and how often?

FM Judging: Spooky

Listen in on the judging for the Spooky round of Foto Mission with Andrew and Jon.