Create 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 Basics – camera settings
On a DSLR there is a choice of settings that allow you to have different levels of control over the camera. First you need to consider what you want to do, or to be precise, what kind of result do you want to achieve? Av – Aperture Priority – This control lets you choose the aperture and the camera will control everything else automatically Tv – Shutter Priority – This control lets you choose the shutter speed and the camera will control everything else automatically. M – Manual – This puts you in control of everything. Aperture priority mode is...
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