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 Photography and Graphic Design

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Tutorials

I have been using Adobe Photoshop since 1996 when I bought a copy of Mac Addict which had a 30 day trial of Adobe Photoshop 4. I knew that I had one month to use the program and each day I devoted an hour to using it, sometimes doing the tutorials in Mac Addict and other magazines around at the time. I had so much fun that I have been addicted to Photoshop ever since. In this section of my site I included some basic tutorials with screen captures and files that you can download and experiment with.

Photoshop tutorials
actions
Adobe Photoshop actions to increase productivity. Click a button for easy photo editing.
Adobe bridge 
Adobe Camera RAW presets
adobe lightroom
Adobe Lightroom presets
stanstan
Adjusting colour and contrast using auto levels, auto contrast and curves
desat
Converting from colour to sepia or black and white using photoshop
coins
Curves, hue/saturation and contrast makes photos come alive
fringing

Fringing - removing the halo or fringing cast in low light photos.

 
Hand colouring a photo in Photoshop CS3
high pass
High Key
incense smoke - inverted 
Incense smoke art
gerbera with  heart
Merging photographic elements
oob
Out of Bounds (OOB)
oob
Photographing animals in cages
incense smoke
Photographing incense smoke
high pass
Porcelain effect with portraits
Reverse lens macro of 50 cent coin
Reversed lens macro technique
Jacob on Australia Day at North Wollongong
Shadows and Highlights
water effects
Water effect photos
If I created a magazine would it look like this?
Create your own magazine covers

If you use some of my actions or techniques please email or flickrmail me and I will feature them on my site.

Camera Lessons and Tips
  Apertureopen in external site
  Aperture and Shutter Speed open in external site
 

Area Focus

 

Top 10 tips for great pictures - Kodakopen in external site

 

Tips for better photos - Fujifilm open in external site

 

Basic digital camera function open in external site

 

What's an F stop? open in external site

 

What is ISO? open in external site

 

DIY CCD cleaning open in external site

Portrait photography tools
  Making your own backdrop
  Lighting on a budget
 

LightingLighting basics open in external site

 

Strobist

  • Lighting 101
  • Lighting 102
 

Studio Lighting on YouTube

How to use strobe lighting for fashion 

  Finding props cheaply
  Photographing babies open in external site
  Skin tones

 

 
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