50 Photoshop Actions For Every Photographer | Freebie | Pixel Curse

50 Photoshop Actions For Every Photographer | Freebie | Pixel Curse: "Using Photoshop actions can make your life easier and help you edit your photos more quickly. Basically, actions are nothing more than a series of normal Photoshop operations recorded so you can run them in sequence quickly, without having to remember just what steps to do, and in what order."

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15 Best Photoshop Light Effect Tutorials | Design Dim

15 Best Photoshop Light Effect Tutorials | Design Dim: "A current trend in design is adding lighting effects to enhance your digital art. In this article, you’ll find 15 Best Lighting Effects Tutorials that you can use to add a bit of sparkle into your work."

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BetterPhoto Instructor Insights: Creative Composition: Close-Ups and Autofocus

BetterPhoto Instructor Insights: Creative Composition: Close-Ups and Autofocus: "I love close-ups. They truly bring you into a different world that we normally don't see. And I am not talking about super close work, either. Any time we get in close to a natural subject, we are looking more deeply at the world around us in a way we usually don't do. In a way, the act of close-up photography gets us to pause and observe details that we might otherwise pass on by."

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How I Stumbled Across an Amazing Way to Slow Down My Shooting Process

How I Stumbled Across an Amazing Way to Slow Down My Shooting Process: "I, like many new photographers, would walk around shooting everything I saw without consciously thinking about the way it was framed or the settings on my camera. If you browse through the archives of my blog you’ll see a clear pattern of growth and learning in the images, but admittedly, I still have a long way to go!"

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Poser: Achieve Perfect Portrait Expression

Poser: Achieve Perfect Portrait Expression: "Fortunately for our clients – and for us – the world of formal portrait and people photography is now coming to a new era: Portrait Photojournalism."

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Dynamic Range in the World of Photography – PictureCorrect

Dynamic Range in the World of Photography – PictureCorrect: "Look at something other than your computer screen for a moment and take note of the world around you. You should notice bright highlights and dark shadow areas without much of a problem."

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Take More Photos – Keep Less

Take More Photos – Keep Less: "When I first heard this advice, I did not fully understand it. I was backpacking in Mexico and had met with that professional photographer who gave me the advice. We met a few days in a row, which made me feel after that I could do much more with that fancy DSLR than with my small point and shoot. I felt the urge to spend what was left of my savings into that ‘toy’ at the time."

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Panasonic DMC-GF3 Review

Panasonic DMC-GF3 Review: "If this is the way it’s going, I’m all for it: smaller, interchangeable lens cameras, with decently-sized sensors and sophisticated image processing internals.

Panasonic and Sony seem to be waging the war with their Micro Four Thirds models and this is another missile hurled at (IMHO) the oversize DSLRS, with or without flipping mirrors!"

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How to Balance Strobes with Sunlight in Photography – PictureCorrect

How to Balance Strobes with Sunlight in Photography – PictureCorrect: "As photographers, we are always trying to capture photographs that pop. That is, images that combine depth and fine details. This short clip explains how to mix strobe lighting with ambient light to achieve just the right feel (for those of you reading this by email, you can see the video here):"

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Enhance Faces in Your iPhone Photos the Easy Way

Enhance Faces in Your iPhone Photos the Easy Way: "When we take photos of people in a professional capacity, we are almost always asked to make small facial adjustments, like whitening a subject’s teeth and softening the skin to hide wrinkles and blemishes. Such edits are commonplace throughout professional photography, but nearly impossible to make from a mobile device."

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