Imaging Skills

Small changes, big differences.

Andrew takes you through a basic checklist of processing changes you can follow for any picture. You might not need them all, but it will ensure your critically assess and improve an image successfull...

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.

Creating an Arctic panoramic in Lightroom

In this tutorial, Andrew discusses handholding the camera and shooting a series of vertical images that are then merged in Lightroom to create a panoramic and then processed to bring out the full dram...

Bugs, bad updates, and processing OCD

These days we rely on software for so much of what we do, when it doesn’t work properly or doesn’t do what we want it to do it’s a massive pain in the backside, writes Andrew James.

Creating more complex Actions in Photoshop

A few weeks ago we looked at how to create a relatively simple Action in Photoshop that optimizes an image in lightning fast time, ready for upload to a social media site like Facebook, writes Jon Ada...

Save time with Actions in Photoshop

We all like sharing our pictures on social media platforms like Facebook, but optimising your pictures for upload can be slow and painful, writes Jon Adams. Follow this easy Photoshop tip, however, an...

Avoiding over-processing

When you return from a big trip with thousands of raw photos to work through, it's the time to ask yourself do I spend too long processing my images? In this video, Andrew sets himself the challenge o...

First look at Lightroom’s new Denoise

The latest release of both Lightroom Classic and Adobe Camera Raws has introduced a new Denoise Ai function to help with noise removal on high ISO images. In this 10 minute video AJ takes a first look...

Adding subjects to new scenes

A little while back, we looked at how simple composite images can be created in Photoshop by adding a new foreground to an image, writes Jon Adams. In this video, we take things a step further by cutt...