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If you’re working with an SLR or a high end point and shoot camera, it’s likely that you’ll have the ability to use filters. Here are the three most common types of filters that are essential tools for any photographer looking to excel.

There it is, the most amazing view! However your wide-angle lens is just not wide enough, not to mention that it’s dusk so a hand-held exposure won’t not give you a sharp enough image. Here’s how to fuse Panoramic and HDR photography in a way that should help you to capture that astonishing scene.

Taken a great old school picture, but don’t know what to do with it? In this tutorial we’re going to learn how to transform it into an old fashioned polaroid in photoshop. In a few simple steps you can create a polaroid with your own picture!

A portrait itself can be nice, and good looking. But if you like taking photos of people, I’m sure you have experienced the boring light which sometimes appears. Fortunately, our dear friend Photoshop can help us making almost any portrait look better. You know, like the ones you see in magazines, where they claim L’oreal makes you look all better. If you have a boring portrait, or just want to make one more exciting, follow these 6 easy steps.

Today we are going to make a grainy black and white photo using adjusments filters, noise filters and much more. We will look at the difference between different adjustment filters like ‘black and white’ and the saturation adjustment. Which one will we use? Well lets find that out!

Most of us now use a handy little tool in Photoshop for correcting an stylising our photographs. But if you’re like me; you want your subject to pop, and actions sometimes seem to flatten the colors of your image especially of your subject. Hopefully this quick tip will help us all out.

A while ago I had an idea for a time lapse of photos that travelled the world. No photo was planned and the camera was never in the same place twice. What it tells though is an incredible story. The best thing is, you’ve probably already got every photo you need to do it.

When taking portraits it is often a great effect to have a clean black background. But who says you need a professional and expensive background to get professional results? In this article you will learn how to set up a working background on a budget.

There are two types of motion blur pictures. The first type is where you keep your surroundings static and bring out motion in the subject. The other type of blur is where you keep the subject mostly in focus and get a motion blur effect on the background. Here are a few quick pointers for taking some cool motion blur shots.

Smoke photography has gained lot of momentum in the recent years. There are some photographers out there who come up with amazing smoke photographs. The setup for smoke photography is relatively simple. Here’s a quick recipe for successful smoke photographs.