I never imagined when I started teaching Photoshop back in 99, that I would end up still be doing it in 2011… I have made some wonderful friends over the years and I hope you have learned something from it…

Well there are just under 2 weeks left until the site closes. So today I thought I would highlight some of the training alternatives out there. lynda.com Lynda.com is probably one of the better known training sites out there. They…

This is it folks. My last ever product offer and its as BIG as I can make it. I am selling of every video tutorial and actions set I have ever made including many unpublished actions and around 100 unseen…

Sometimes when I am retouching an image the subjects complexion can be a little on the cool side regardless of how much you crank up the white balance. So now and again I like get out a can of fake…

I have had a lot emails from you lovely people asking if I will share the Quickie Compositing Technique from my first online class. Well, let me wet your appetite for my forthcoming compositing and retouching class that will be…

This is a very cool little technique for sharpening and pulling out extra details in an image. But believe it or not you have to use surface blur to make it work. This technique wins over the high-pass filter in…

This a lovely little technique for adding a glow effect to your portraits although it also works nicely on landscapes. Just dial down the opacity a bit more thats all. The good thing about this technique is that its non-destructive…

Every now and then I do a post that keeps you up to date with whats happening at a little photoshop and any major changes that I might be making. Well, I have got a few for you today. Some…

I have got a non-destructive airbrushing technique for you this week. Something tells me I have demonstrated this painterly effect before and I know I used to have it as an action. But, I have never gone down the non-destructive…

This blog is both a video tutorial and also a commentary on making selections and your own expectations of how accurate those selections actually are in the real world. Selections & Expectations Expectations When Photoshop CS5 was announced a year…

Usually I teach how to remove colour casts (See Really Easy Colour Correction). Today though, I am going to show you 2 ways on how you can easily throw a colour cast back into the image you make for warmth……

My Lightroom 3 Masterclass Part 3 (Develop Module) is available to buy. Lessons #27 to #40 are available for instant download priced at £3.99 / $6.50 respectively. Part #3 – Develop Module Photoshop Lightroom 3 is a powerful photographic workflow…

If colour correction baffles you then you are going to love this video tutorial. I sure as heck didn’t invent this technique, but I am going to make full use of it in the future. Really Easy Colour Correction with…

Using Curves can be a little confusing and for years I just stuck to levels. So I thought it was time to record a video tutorial that helps to demystify curves so that you may select the points exactly in…

This tutorial was originally recorded for Digital Photographer Magazine and in this video I show you how to process a single image as an HDR using a stock shot of a steam locomotive courtesy of Fotolia. Processed Steam Locomotive Image…

I thought it was about time I demonstrated some creative ways to use the crop tool with Photoshop CS5. So sit back, relax, and watch the 11 min 52sec video tutorial as I show you a half dozen or so…

There 27 Blend Modes in Photoshop CS5 and 25 in Elements but I bet you don’t use even half of them, right? Well let me cut things down further and show you my top five blend modes that are essential…

We all make mistakes and in Lightroom 3 there is a nifty history panel that often gets overlooked for one reason or another. So if you make a mistake then call upon your history panel to go back as many…

One of my more popular techniques of the past few years has been creating a big blurry border with Photoshop. Well now I have added to the technique with a really cool smudgy edge courtesy of the refine edge option…

Using a LensBaby used to be a guilty pleasure. I say “used to be” because I broke my LensBaby Composer and I never got around to replacing it. So these days I just fake ‘n’ bake it in Photoshop. Now,…