Photo HowTo

Some time ago, we discussed a bunch of simple tips you can use to make your photos stand out from the crowd. Last time, we worked on a landscape however this time it should be interesting to work on a portrait, and prove the power of Lightroom with just a few clicks.

Imagine you are having a birthday party for your four-year-old daughter; it’s one of her biggest parties yet. You decide you want to snap a photo of her and her little friends together to cement the occasion for all time.

The long awaited version of Photoshop CS5 is now out there! You can purchase the software or trial run it for a short period. For the most part, we have a lot of experience with the Beta version and felt it was important to post some thoughts on what it has to offer.

Black and white photography always had a certain je ne sais quoi, it speaks differently to the viewer – the lack of colors is compensated by the depth of the subject and by the way shadows and light build the entire image. In other words, if color photography is easily valued through its… colors, with black and white images it is a lot harder to send out the right message – one has to be a lot careful with composition, subject positioning, lightning and so on.

There is a lot of tutorials describing how to use the image editors to adjust the colors of your photos. Many editors and organizer including my favorite Windows Live Photogallery are able to do it with just one click. If you have the newest Adobe Photoshop CS4, I highly recommend to try its new function Vibrance Adjustment.

Adobe Photoshop CS2, the most efficient photo-editing tool offers various artistic effects that can render your simple and typical photographs into dynamic and enhanced art works. One such effect is Sketch effect. In this peculiar style a photograph or an image or converted into a sketch. These kinds of effects are essential while preparing your tour portfolio or just remembrance album of your most memorable journey or anything that needs an artistic look. The only thing you need to bear in mind is that the image should be high contrast in itself to get the best looks. Also see that the background must not be too busy, the simpler the better.