Photography is a big hobby, there's a lot to learn, it's never ending. As technology improves, new skills have to be learnt all the time and photographers everywhere always have questions. I need your questions. Tog-Talk (my podcast) needs your questions. To make it easy for you, I have added…
Our very first Tog-Talk podcast that is also available in video form. Tog-Talk Episode 29 With this week's guest David Emery In the very first Tog-Talk podcast to be shot in video, Kevin Ahronson interviews David Emery, a photographer he has known for four years. David shares his journey into…
From September our most popular one-year photography course moves to the prestigious Highfield Park Hotel in 35 acres of rolling Hampshire countryside. Highfield Park was the home of former Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain. and before that was owned by the Duke of Wellington. As a venue, it gives us additional…
If you'd like to know more about my plans to run a very special nurturing group for aspiring professional photographers (either full-time or part-time), watch this video. This could be an opportunity of a lifetime for the right person(s) INTERESTED? To register your interest in this small, but quite elite…
Students in the Photography Masterclass will immerse themselves in photography for a whole year, learning strong foundations across a range of photography genres; including landscape, people photography, flash, macro and post-processing with Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop. It is a ten-module photography course with photo assignments between sessions and students can…
Searching in Adobe Lightroom Classic Pt.3 Searching the Metadata This is the final part of a 3-part series looking at the search facility in Adobe Lightroom Classic. In the previous two episodes, we looked at text searches and attribute searches, today it's the turn of Metadata. Metadata is the hidden…
Searching In Lightroom Classic using Attributes Part of the photographer's workflow is sifting through endless photos and making decisions about keeping or deleting. On a long photo shoot, you may have hundreds of images to examine and make decisions over. Categorising the images with star ratings and/or colour ratings will…
Lightroom Classic is a great tool for editing your photographs. It does a pretty good job too at cataloguing those images. Do you struggle to find the right image amongst thousands or even tens of thousands on your computer? It’s frustrating, isn’t it? You know the photo you’re looking for,…
Day 30 and we finish by looking at the subject of saving and exporting. We are there, we finally made it. We’ve reached the end of 30 days of Photoshop tutorials – and if you have completed every one, then let me offer you my congratulations. The foundations you have…
Day 29 - The History Panel in Photoshop For most of us, when we make mistakes in Photoshop, we simply hit the UNDO shortcut keys. But there is a better way, a much better way. Using the History panel we can return to any point in our editing process, travelling…
Day 28 - An introduction to the Sky Replacement Tool in Photoshop There seems to be a lot of interest in Sky Replacement software at the moment. Some of Photoshop’s competitors (Luminar in particular) have made a big selling point of how easily their software adds skies to your photos.…
Day 27 - Colour Replacement Ever wanted to change the colour of someone's dress or shirt? Today's video shows you how. No clothing change in this video though... in this tutorial we have a chicken and a snooker table... 30 DAYS OF PHOTOSHOP This is free to anyone who wants…
Day 26 - it's the Dodge & Burn PLUS the sponge tools. I add a bit of dodge and burn to most of my portrait photos these days (although not necessarily by using these particular tools. There are better, less-destructive ways). However it's done, dodging & burning can dramatically add…
Have we really been doing this for 25 days??? Well here we are with just 5 days to go and today we are looking at three tools that often get overlooked, the Blur, Sharpen and Smudge tools. 30 DAYS OF PHOTOSHOP This is free to anyone who wants to watch…
This brings to an end the 3-part series looking at the Liquify tool in Photoshop. It's a fun tool offering a wonderful range of creative opportunities. 30 DAYS OF PHOTOSHOP This is free to anyone who wants to watch and if you are one of those photographer’s who has yet…
Black & White Adjustment Layer Looking for the best way to convert your images to black & white? The B&W adjustment layer in Photoshop is a breeze to work with. In this short tutorial, I will show you how to access the Black & White adjustment layer and make adjustments…
Day 18 - today in 30 Days of Photoshop we are going to look at HSL, Hue, Saturation (and Luminance). This is a great tool that can be used to transform your image, correct colours and even change those colours. 30 DAYS OF PHOTOSHOP This is free to anyone who…
Day 19 and we take a very brief and uncomplicated look at colour temperature in Photoshop 30 DAYS OF PHOTOSHOP This is free to anyone who wants to watch and if you are one of those photographers who has yet to explore Photoshop’s extraordinary capabilities… you will love this. Watch…
30 DAYS OF PHOTOSHOP This is free to anyone who wants to watch and if you are one of those photographer’s who has yet to explore Photoshop’s extraordinary capabilities… you will love this. Watch the 30 Days of Photoshop at https://phototeacher.blog Hampshire School of Photography: https://www.hampshirephotoschool.com Hampshire School of Photography…
The Liquify tool is one of those tools that usually puts a smile on the face of the user. There's so much that you can do with this tool, it's easy to get carried away. It's also one of those tools that people love or hate, because if used irresponsibly,…
30 DAYS OF PHOTOSHOP This is free to anyone who wants to watch and if you are one of those photographers who has yet to explore Photoshop’s extraordinary capabilities… you will love this. Watch the 30 Days of Photoshop at https://phototeacher.blog Hampshire School of Photography: https://www.hampshirephotoschool.com Hampshire School of Photography…
Find out how Lightroom’s latest updates will make your life easier This week’s video tutorial introduces some of the new features in the recently updated Adobe Lightroom The new updates in Lightroom are quite outstanding! (Well at least I think they are) Most updates from Adobe don’t make big headlines.…
Adjustment Layers – Curves Tool Day 17 of 30 Days of Photoshop and today we examine the Curves Tool. There’s no doubt that this is a harder tool to master than Levels. Yet it is far more popular, probably because of it’s flexibitly. This is definitely one of those tools…
Adjustment Layers - Levels Over the next few days we are going to look at a number of adjustment layers. These are the preferred way to make adjustments in Photoshop because like so many of the techniques we have looked at so far, they are non-destructive. You can go back…