Photo Editing Tips & Techniques

Tips and techniques for adding impact to autumn images in Photoshop

We caught up with Michael to find out how he curates his Format portfolio, his essential gear for an outdoor shoot and the secret to making your work stand out.

The top 5 new features in Lightroom CC for nature photographers

Learn to make use of this increasingly mainstream technology without losing the soul of your images

A new app makes organizing, sharing and protecting photos an automatic snap. It just may change your life.

Michael Frye takes us through the steps of getting the most out of a high-contrast landscape

How to banish color fringes from your photos forever

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

How the changes in Lr4 are important for nature photographers

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