Do not throw away your reject images, just yet!

Assessing and grading your images

Reject images are part and parcel of photography. However, when you have spent the day out photographing and put the time and effort, not to mention expense, into pursuing your photographic ambitions there may be some reluctance to reject images. When starting the upload process there is an air … [Read more...]

The Creative Process

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In my opinion the creative process is somewhat of a mystery. Where to do we get our creativity from? What is the stimulus that generates that 'Eureka' moment? I am pretty sure that each of your answers and your approach to the creative process would be different. I must admit my creative muse … [Read more...]

Lightroom 4 Develop Module Improvements

Having recently upgraded to Adobe Lightroom 4 I was interested to learn more about the improvements made to the new software, particularly within the Develop module. Of course there are many videos and tutorials available but I was particularly impressed with the clear and detailed approach taken … [Read more...]

Importing Photos into Lightroom 3

Importing photos into Lightroom - In this tutorial A.J.Wood demonstrates the improvements made to the software when you are importing photos into Lightroom 3 via the import dialogue panel. This informative and well presented video of the ingestion of images and video into Adobe Lightroom … [Read more...]

Adobe Photoshop CS5 Teaching Resources

Further to Adobe's recent announcement on Photoshop CS5 here is a list of The Best Online Adobe Photoshop CS5 Teaching Resources compiled by the highly regarded and inspirational photographer John Paul Caponigro. Visit John Paul Caponigro's Blog for full details. … [Read more...]