Photography Blog Posts

Learn something about photography and Photoshop with our articles and tutorials listed below.

All About Bokeh Photography

All About Bokeh Photography

Posted on Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

Bokeh – one of the famous words in the Photography world. The word “bokeh” comes from the Japanese word “boke” (pronounced bo-keh) which literally means fuzziness or dizziness. Bokeh is said to describe the rendition of out-of-focus points of light.

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Different Techniques of Skin Softening

Different Techniques of Skin Softening

Posted on Monday, June 15th, 2009

Soften skin tones in Adobe Lightroom, Camera Raw, or in Photoshop. Learn the high-pass filter method or the gaussian blur method in Photoshop. Download an awesome Photoshop action and check out a cool Photoshop plugin.

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Fixing Your Crooked Horizon Using The Ruler Tool

Fixing Your Crooked Horizon Using The Ruler Tool

Posted on Saturday, April 25th, 2009

Have you ever taken a photo with a crooked horizon? Here’s an easy way to straighten that horizon using Photoshop’s Ruler Tool.

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Very Useful Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts

Posted on Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

There are lots of keyboard shortcuts built into Adobe Photoshop and there’s no way I could list them all here, even if I wanted to. I don’t even use most of them, but there are some I couldn’t live without. Here’s a brief rundown of some of my favorites.

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Crop While Maintaining Original Ratio

Posted on Sunday, March 1st, 2009

Here is an easy way in any version of Photoshop to crop an image and maintain its native proportion. This is useful when cropping an image and still want to maintain the proper print size ratio (i.e. 5″ x 7″).

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