Month: August 2020

Here's a quick and easy experiment with an architectural image (always good to explore the lines), turning it first to...

I thought I'd give away all my test cards. They are an odd set for testing and demonstrating things such...

Here's an easy method for making areas of an image lighter or darker, just by using the 'Lighten' or 'Darken'...

Here's a full edit of an image, starting with the RAW file and introducing a neat effect whereby using the...

The free Soft Shapes macros I have already given away (see link below) act like a constrained fill layer to...

Here's how the 'Lighten' blend mode can be useful in ensuring only the clouds you want appear when combining two...

Here's a whole bunch of free macros to create soft shapes you can use to change the local tone and...

An alternative to the traditional workflow of the Unsharp Mask, where the Factor starts high is to use the reversal...

A way to add stars into an image is to use the Lighten Blend Mode. Here, we not only do...

Sometimes when you have a lot of sensor dust marks in the sky it can be difficult to find and...

As a part of our long series on Blend Modes in Detail, here are five examples how you can use...

When editing a picture it is often useful to adjust tone (black and white parts) separately from colour. Here's a...