I generally like to have a location picked out for a shoot, especially when some of the images are to be used on artwork. Unfortunately this was not the case for a last minute shoot for trance producer (and fellow Scotsman) Andy Duguid for the artwork of his new album due for release on Tiesto‘s...
Thereʼs plenty of skin softening (or skin smoothing) techniques and tutorials available on the internet. Some are pretty good, some not so much. Obviously, this is just my opinion and you should use whichever method or photoshop action you’re comfortable with but I thought by sharing one of my favorite techniques it might give you...
I’ve talked about this before but I’m a huge fan of the photography in magazines like Junior, Milk and Vogue Bambini. It’s not uncommon for photographers to draw influence from fashion magazines but its incredibly difficult to achieve similar results without the styling, the clothes, the locations and models. Kids fashion photography is an area...
The key to balancing out an uneven skin tone is finding a way of targeting problem areas without affecting the rest of the skin. The Selective Color adjustment is a fantastic tool for this, allowing you to change the CMYK values in a primary color without affecting any of the other primary colors. In terms...
My wife has told me off for posting too many Photoshop tutorials lately and not enough babies. In an attempt to reset the balance, here’s a couple of images from a recent newborn shoot.
Any work you do to a subjects eyes during the editing process will have a dramatic impact on the portrait. There are so many different things you can do to enhance eyes – pupil enlargement, changing colour, creating new eye lashes etc. In this tutorial I’d like to show you a few of the basic...
