How to add a blue sky in Photoshop

If the sky does not cooperate in our travel, we still can save the pictures. We just need two different images, the one we want to “repair” and another one with a beautiful blue sky.
We open the two images in Photoshop.

Why is so important to use adjusting layers in Photoshop?

The original image is equivalent to the negative in film photography. I think nobody would taken a negative, scratched it and cut it up in pieces to see if they liked the printed image.

How to Manage a High Contrast Situation in Photoshop

Almost every picture needs some kind of improvement in Photoshop. Find the ideal lighting and exposure settings is almost impossible.
You can of course use a tripod and take several shots of the same image using different aperture settings, and then make a “sandwich” in Photoshop or any other software to mask them together and construct [...]

How to soften the skin in Photoshop

This is a  Photoshop tutorial where  you can learn how to soften the skin tones.

Open your image and go to the channels palette (panel in CS4)

Click in the red channel

And select the image with the rectangular marquee tool. Then go to Edit> Copy or Ctrl C

Go back to the layers palette (panel) and click in [...]

Composing an image using depth of field

The depth of field is one of the main tools that the camera provides to help us to compose an image.
We should see the depth of field like the brush the painter uses in his canvas or the violin the musician plays to perform his music. The depth of field allow us to compose, isolate [...]

How to photograph through glass

Photographing  through glass is not an easy task, I could say it is almost impossible to get a perfect picture. We can see that many people want to photograph through museum and aquarium windows, but they usually get very poor results.
When the inside of the window is darker than the outside, the glass will turn [...]

Photographing architecture after sunset

There is a magic hour, just after sunset, where we can take amazing pictures if we have a steady tripod and a good dose of patience. This is the perfect time to combine natural and artificial light to photograph landscape and architecture.
Since we are going to be photographing in low light conditions, we need to [...]

How to photograph vegetables

We must always use one main source of light. Our natural vision is regulated by the sun, and any image that denotes multiple lights and shadows is going to feel artificial.

How to photograph while moving the camera

When we  photograph we usually want sharp and well focus images, but sometimes moving the camera while we press the shutter release in a very low speed can give as very interesting images.
This is a traditional photograph of the Brooklyn bridge taken in New York City from Sea Port. It was freezing that night and [...]

How to photograph inside churches

Churches are beautiful places regardless of  the religion they follow or the date they were constructed.
All of them have been built as places to honor God and were erected as spaces were our soul should rejoice with beauty.

In many of them, the lighting was meticulously studied to inspire us about God’s grandiosity and this is [...]

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