Turn off the flash and say goodbye to washed-out faces and shadowy backgrounds. Watch this photographpy tutorial to learn how to shoot without flash on your Canon A550 and improve your pictures. Your photos will look great if you use the techniques explained in this instructional video.
Watch this photography video tutorial to learn how to put date and time on your photos only when you want it. Date and time stamping on your Canon A550 will be easy once you've mastered the tips in this helpful how-to video.
In this Photoshop tutorial you will learn how to create a magazine cover layout with the help of a photo of iJustine and Howard from Ice Flow Studios.
This video hows you how to upload a previously saved photo onto your webpage as the background image.
Save your favorite photos from scary-looking red-eye with just a few simple steps in Apple iPhoto.
Make the photos on your scrapbook pages pop by matting them. This easy technique is both colorful and decorative, while helping draw the eye to your page's focal point.
Learn how to use some simple lighting with a Gary Fong Whaletail flash diffuser, the sun, and finally with a second diffuser, the Gary Fong Origami.
Learn how to create fantasy poster effects on a regular photo by adding atmosphere and artificial lights in Photoshop.
This video shows you how to adjust dark photos in Photoshop.
This video shows you how to retouch a motorcycle photo and turn it into a Harley Davidson ad using Photoshop.
The dodge, burn and sponge tools in Photoshop are just like working in a Photo Darkroom. Lighten, darken and enhance images.
The extract tool in Photoshop is one of the most frequently used - and useful - tools you'll ever learn to use. Extracting allows you to remove a picture from its background or even filter away flyaway hair.
See how to create cool image borders in Photoshop using filters and clipping masks.
In this tutorial I convert an image to black and white, then paint back detail into the image reveling it's red color.
Learn how to use the levels and curves in Paint Shop Pro to make your photos really pop.
Quickly turn your photograph into a hand drawn sketch! This Photoshop tutorial shows you one way to do it using desaturate and invert, Gaussian blur and brightness and contrast.
This tutorial shows you how to correct converging vertical lines (extreme perspective) or surface edges on photos using Photoshop tools.
Depending on lighting conditions, you may need to overexpose the background to get a good shot of your subject. See how you can use Photoshop to bring the overexposed backgrounds back to life. This trick will work if you took a photo of the object and the sky, or if you just have another image of a background you want to use.
Hand coloring black and white photographs was a common process prior to the advent of color photography and created a unique visual aesthetic. This video demonstrates how to digitally create this style for digital black and white photography.
This Photoshop tutorial will show you how to turn a photo into a surveillance camera screenshot.
This tutorial shows you how to combine photos to make a panoramic image by auto-blending the images and tweaking.
How to distort photos in Photoshop to make a funny face using the liquify filter.
Another NewDarkRoom.com Video tutorial. This tutorial will show you how to get more room out of your photo booth by hiding all the unwanted parts past your seamless paper. As usual you will be able to find a more detailed larger video at our website.
Adobe Photoshop Elements is the consumer version of the Adobe Photoshop raster image editing product. In this video tutorial you will learn to use the cookie cutter tool in Photoshop Elements 4.0 to create shapes out of your photos. The tool is great for creating signs and logos.
Jeff Schell shows you some of the options and configurations available when working with images that do not match the dimensions of your program monitor in Premiere Pro CS3. In addition, Jeff will introduce you to the 'Automate to Timeline" feature that helps you quickly create a photo montage or slide show with the click of a button.
Learn how to record audio from video files (even Flash .flv files or Youtube videos) using the Windows sound recorder. All of the software used in this tutorial comes bundled with Windows.
You can make you own classic style red/green or red/blue 3D images. Learn how to take pictures and turn them into 3D compatible images using Callipygian 3D Photo Editing Software.
Watch and see how to use the cropping tool to crop and improve compositions of photos in this iPhoto tutorial.
Illustrator CS2 has a great tracing feature called Live Trace. However, sometimes you may want to trace something and have a more artistic effect. With Illustrator's Pen Tool and the Gradient Mesh feature you'll be able to create the exact look and feel that you want.
The next time you find yourself in need of the same element in multiple places on your page, it’s probably time to check out Adobe Illustrator CS2’s Symbols. Symbols are more efficient than just duplicating elements in your document, and they also allow your Illustrator documents to print faster. Lastly if you ever need to update all those elements it’s much faster to update the master symbol.
Placing an image on a new background means lots of tinkering to get the perfect angles. Try the vanishing point trick and Photoshop's Distort transformation to achieve believable angles in your next composite photo.
This video demonstrates how to change color using Photoshop. The video walks you through making layers, changing the hue of the photo, and ultimately changing the color of the object you want. While the video is silent and lacks text, if you zoom in you can generally follow along.
Looking for a fun way to preserve or create something new out of your digital photos? Learn how you can turn your digital pictures into a coloring book using Adobe Photoshop.
Are some of your most precious memories stored on pictures that look too dark? This video demonstrates how to brighten digital pictures and photos using Adobe Photoshop.
Maybe you don't have the best camera, or the best flash, but for whatever reason, you have photos with all your subjects suffering from red eye. Watch and learn how to use Photoshop Elements to get the red out without making people look weird.
Handwritten notes are no doubt useful at home, work, and school, but digitizing them with your smartphone will make them easier to edit, organize, and review. You'll also always have a digital copy ready if your handwritten notes get lost or erased. And Google Keep for Android, iOS, or iPadOS makes the conversion from physical form to digital a cinch, especially when it comes to checklists.
If you're not using your iPhone's Files app yet to manage images, documents, and other files on iCloud, third-party cloud services, or your local storage, it's time to start. Apple's built-in file manager is finally a powerhouse with many tricks up its sleeve in the latest software update.
You can set a GIF as the wallpaper for your iPhone's lock screen, but it won't animate like it does when looking at the image in the Photos app. It's an annoying limitation on iOS, but one that's easily bypassed with a tiny bit of work.
The Memories feature in Photos is meant to help you rediscover old or forgotten experiences by creating a short slideshow of photos and videos based on locations, dates, and events. It's a fun feature to relive exciting times, but it isn't always perfect because it's generated automatically. It might include incorrect content, but in iOS 14, you can now create your own Memory Movies.
Your iPhone comes with a feature that allows you to share your name and photo with anyone you iMessage in Messages. It's a useful feature if you want people to see a customized name or fun image that you pick, but seeing all those "Share your name and photo" alerts in conversations can get real annoying quickly. There's a way to stop that from happening, thankfully.
