Tutorials

So you've been a photographer and Photoshop user for a while now and have decided to take it to the next step. Whether you are looking to enrich your compositional knowledge, become a better shooter or enhance your Photoshop geek techniques, need not be a horrifying experience. Masters of photography have said: "First learn the rules and then you break them". Vision, composition, technique, hardware and processing are some of the elements that first need to be mastered before being bent or broken in order to suit one's "Vision".

As a historic fact, people are very opposed to change. Progress however marches on and the ones who refuse to acknowledge it and adapt are often left behind. Photography and Digital Photography in particular is seeing this transition right now. Photoshop and many other image processing software applications are replacing the traditional dark room with all its history and glory.

All this came with a price, that being the steep learning curve required to master these programs. To top it off there is even a learning curve from one version to the next, not to mention the numerous plug-ins being developed in order to enhance these image manipulation programs.

In the following articles i will take you through the whole process, step by step, be it a Photoshop tutorial, a commentary on rules of composition, how to squeeze the best image out of your digital camera or photographic techniques to suit those particular shooting conditions. I make no claim to be a photography master, I am merely sharing with you the photographic journey i have traveled for the last twenty some odd years and especially the later ones which brought all these exciting changes and the infinite possibilities these new technologies provide.

Simple white balance and color correction from RAW

a basic color correction on a RAW photo - 2/28/08

raw white balance tutorial previewAn easy to follow tutorial, at a very basic level, about the essential steps of white balance settings, color correction and enhancement, when post processing the RAW picture. Some people are still afraid of shooting and processing RAW pictures, but if you are still shying away from using the full power of RAW capture, this Photoshop tutorial will show you it is not as complicated as one might think. Using .JPG files out of the camera is fine if you are just posting them on the internet, or even printing fun snapshots at the neighborhood's self service kiosk, but to unlock the full potential of digital capture, there is no other option but Raw.

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