Photo Editing Tips & Techniques | Outdoor Photographer

Create A Photo eBook

September 3, 2013 | Text And Photography By Rob Sheppard

The tablet revolution has brought new life to e-books. We’ll show you how to make an impressive and full-featured e-book from your photos.

Keeping It Real With HDR

July 30, 2013 | Text & Photography By Glenn Randall

How to use HDR software to maintain appropriate contrast, overcome the limitations of the sensor and bring out detail—without overdoing it!

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HDR For B&W

July 2, 2013 | Text And Photography By Joseph Eckert

Try these steps to bring more detail and expression to your black-and-white imagery

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Straighten Up

May 21, 2013 | Staff

Try digital perspective control to take the oddities out of your tilted camera shots

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Unleash Unlimited Depth Of Field

March 12, 2013 | Text And Photography By Craig Blacklock

Use stacked focus to create images that overcome the bounds of optics for your macro shots and more

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Use Lightroom Like a Darkroom

February 12, 2013 | Text And Photography By Rob Sheppard

How to work like an old-school master printer when you’re processing images in the computer

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Solutions: Clarity

February 12, 2013 | Text & Photography By George Jardine

This incredibly useful control helps close the gap between actual global contrast and apparent contrast in a photo

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Solutions: Vibrance

February 12, 2013 | Text & Photography By George Jardine

Often thought of as nearly identical to Saturation, this control can be much more useful for nature photographers

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Digital Pitfalls: A Cautionary Tale

August 21, 2012 | Text And Photography By Tom Till

Tom Till recently had an epiphany about how much enhancement is too much. It’s easy to become enamored of the power of digital to make colors pop, but it’s also easy to become addicted to the point where you need more and more.

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B&W Transformation

July 3, 2012 | Text And Photography By Rick Sheremeta

Go from a weak color photograph to strong, dynamic black-and-white by taking advantage of HDR technology along the way

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Organization Will Set You Free!

July 3, 2012 | Text And Photography By Rob Sheppard

Basic organization techniques to help you find, sort and catalog your images

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Solutions: Lightroom 4 Tone Controls

May 22, 2012 | Text And Photography By Michael Frye

How the changes in Lr4 are important for nature photographers

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Solutions: Scanning Revisited

April 10, 2012 | Tim Grey

Breathe new life into your old film images by using powerful next-generation scanning software

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Digital Quick tips

February 28, 2012 | Text And Photography By Jon Cornforth

OP Contributing Editor Jon Cornforth shares simple, but powerful steps to get your shots into top shape

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Enhance Your Landscapes

December 27, 2011 | By Staff

How to use Photoshop Layer Masks and Layer Styles to simulate a graduated ND filter without the drawbacks of an actual filter

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Auto HDR, Quicker, Faster And Better?

November 8, 2011 | Text And Photography By Michael J. McNamara

New DSLRs with Auto HDR features can create high dynamic range images in just seconds, but are the results worth the convenience?

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RAW vs. JPEG: Which To Choose

September 20, 2011 | Staff

Should you be using one, the other or both?

The Dark Secret Of Digital Photography

September 20, 2011 | Text And Photography By Rob Sheppard

How the dark side of your photos can be limiting your prints

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Making Time-Lapse

September 6, 2011 | Text And Photography By Todd Sali

Somewhere between still photography and full-motion video, time-lapse is moviemaking that any still shooter can do

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Advanced Cloning

July 5, 2011 | Text And Photography By Kevin McNeal

Retouching techniques give photographers more control than ever. Try a combination of tools for removing distracting elements from almost any scene.

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