Imaging Skills

If you've taken an edgy portrait, and want to style it up with a neat effect that's a little bit different, cross-processing is always worth a try, writes Jon Adams. It's actually an old-school film t...

Finding the right balance of mood and light in your image is all part of the package that makes your image stand out from the crowd, writes Andrew James. In this Lightroom tutorial I take a raw image ...

Foto-Buzzer Mary Gilbert got in touch with an imaging problem, and wondered whether there was a solution, writes Jon Adams. The challenge was to remove someone from a portrait, and either repair or re...

A bleach bypass effect might sound like the sort of cosmetic surgery that costs thousands and is 'enjoyed' by the rich, famous, and stupid, but actually it's a simple technique that's great for creati...

Opportunities to shoot birds of prey in a studio setting are very rare, but it's one rather exclusive thing we offer on our Foto-Buzz workshops, writes Jon Adams. In this in-depth video tutorial, Jon ...

Whether you want sepia, cyanotype or a two-colour split-toning treatment on your black & white images, your first port of call should be the Color Grading panel in Adobe Camera Raw or Lightroom, write...

In this 10-minute Lightroom video Andrew uses a series of Masks to rescue a badly underexposed dragonfly image without degrading image quality.

In Photoshop's Layers panel, you can fade down a layer's content by using the Opacity control, writes Jon Adams. But right underneath it is another opacity control called 'Fill', that seems to do exac...

Shooting some images with the main light source directly behind them will often result in more atmospheric images but it's easy to process them the wrong way and lose the element that gives them that ...