Photoshop basics – simple colour correction
This is a quick and simple technique for correcting the colour of an image in photoshop. It is not always successful and will not give you the desired results 100% of the time. But as it is quick and easy it is definitely one to try first. My picture of Goðafoss has a dictinct blue cast. It was taken in low light and this is a common problem as my canon couldn’t really see well enough to decide on an appropriate white balance. I could have corrected this at the RAW stage, but for the benefit of this tutorial, I burned it as it came out of the camera. Duplicate the layer. Then apply an...
Read MoreCreate a photoshop action – Colour boost
This tutorial offers an alternative to the saturation option when you wish to dramatically boost the colours in an image. We will make a photoshop action for this colour boosting technique so that it can be applied easily to any image in the future. More information about creating an action can be found here. The first step is to create a folder for your action. You can call it what you want, I have called it ‘ColourBoost’. Give the first step a logical name and start recording. LAB Convert your image to LAB mode. LAB means there are three channels L=lightness and two colour...
Read MorePhotography techniques – Hyperfocal distance
Posted by Tony on Oct 27, 2009
in Photography Techniques | 5 comments
Hyperfocal distance is the art in photography of achieving as much sharpness as possible throughout the image. In other words, it involves careful focusing adjustments to ensure that objects close to the camera and objects in the distance all have the same sharp focus, but more accurately, the hyperfocal distance is that point of focus where things are in focus from a point half way between you and the focal point all the way onward to infinity. Hyper-focal distance is more of a landscape photographer’s concept. When shooting landscapes, I never use auto-focus. Although the Hyperfocal...
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