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Creating a triptych with New Guide Layout

Want to design a triptych in Photoshop but find it too complicated? Follow this tutorial that shows you how to create a simple template using New Guide Layout.

Class of 2023

One of the assignments on our recent visit to Tanzania was to visit a school and shoot some images for an article about how rural education on the periphery of wildlife areas is substandard. Lack of adequately maintained buildings, qualified teachers, and basics like appropriate textbooks, means tha...

FM Judging Sense of Scale

This month’s FM was Sense of scale and there really was a great range of images to challenge AJ’s grey matter. The winning Foto-Buzzers were: 1 Veronica Watson 2 Mark Bannister 3 Mary Gilbert

Swarming to Westonbirt

Westonbirt Arboretum in Gloucestershire provided a beautiful backdrop for an autumnal Foto-Buzz gathering. I’m not 100% sure what the collective noun is for a group of Foto-Buzzers, but I have some memory that in the past it’s been described as a swarm, so we’ll stick with that.

My Home Town

Well as you might now know I live in Farnborough, the Hampshire one, ( there are 2 others in the country!) Apart from the airfield that hosts the airshow, which was good in its day, there is not much else here worth mentioning.  So for the Mission I thought I had better try and capture some of ...

Adobe Illustrator – What is it, what does it do?

As photographers we have some understanding of Photoshop, what it is and what it does, and how it integrates with Lightroom if you use that too. The two of them work together to enable us photographers to work with what are known as ‘raster’ images, that is images made up of lots of dots. Zoom ...

So…..it got a bit hot and something got melted!

I’d had a few ideas for Feel the Heat, my first one being glass blowing but the nearest glass place to me in Stourbridge couldn’t confirm which days this would be happening so it would be hit and miss if I visited, another was BBQ but then July kindly produced so much rain which killed t...