Improve Your Photography

Improve Your Photography is a new series aimed at keen photographers interested in improving their skills and getting some fresh ideas. Each edition explores a different genre, such as landscapes, portraits and nature, and is packed with 100 pages of advice and inspiration from some of the UK’s leading photographers.

Welcome

Improve Your Photography

A filter for all occasions • The excellent image editor Camera Raw can be used as a Photoshop filter. Martin Evening shows you how to make best use of it

How to filter multiple layers

USEFUL TOOLS IN CAMERA RAW

Camera Raw Filter for video files

Sharpen up with Adobe CC • Confused about sharpening controls in Lightroom and Photoshop? James Paterson explains how to get the most out of them and avoid the pitfalls

SHARPENING TIPS AND TRICKS IN PHOTOSHOP

Localised sharpening

SHARPENING WITH LIGHT ROOM’S DETAIL PANEL

Targeted colour corrections • Why let poor colour spoil a great shot? Martin Evening shares his colour-correction know-how

Colour corrections in Camera Raw

Auto options in Photoshop

COLOUR CORRECTION BY THE NUMBERS

Perfectly corrected • We all want to get excellent performance from our lenses, but even the very best glass requires a little helping hand in post-production. Martin Evening explains how

Built-in profile corrections

LENS CORRECTION OPTIONS

Chromatic aberration

Extreme black & white • Want a bolder b&w look, including infrared effects? Martin Evening shows how to make your conversions sing using Photoshop’s Camera Raw

HOW TO SIMULATE AN INFRARED LOOK • The following b&w infrared technique is just one of the ways you can achieve a creative black & white conversion in Lightroom. The adjustments here may need to be fine-tuned depending on the image

HSL black & white adjustments

Black & white profiles in Camera Raw

Maximise your detail • James Paterson picks the best sharpening and noise-reduction tools found in some of today’s most popular image editors

Lightroom’s Detail Panel explained • The go-to sharpening and noise-reduction command for many photographers, here are the key features explained

Selective blurring • Add creative photographic lensblurring effects to your photographs using Photoshop. Martin Evening shows you how

THE LENS BLUR FILTER

Blur Gallery filters

All the fun of the fill • Martin Evening shows you how to fill selections with Content-Aware Fill – and how to tame the results

NEW CONTENT-AWARE FILL CONTROLS

Basic Content-Aware Filling

Using Content-Aware Fill on the edges of a panorama

Additional content-aware features

Panorama no drama • Photoshop’s powerful panorama-building feature will extend the capture angle of your camera. Martin Evening shows you how

Creating panoramas of architectural subjects

Photoshop Photomerge method

CAMERA RAW’S PANORAMA PHOTO MERGE

Cosmetic surgery • Revitalise old prints by using these simple Photoshop techniques, says James Paterson

FIVE COMMANDS TO SPEED UP YOUR RESTORATION

The art of composites • Discover how to shoot and combine your images for all kinds of creative effects. Our Photoshop expert James Paterson shows you how

Shooting for a composite

COMPOSITING IN PHOTOSHOP

Layer Masks explained

Get the black & white film look • Transform your digital images into black & white analog classics by using simple tools. James Paterson gives you a masterclass

FIVE OF THE BEST TOOLS FOR EMULATING BLACK & WHITE FILM

5 TIPS TO GET THE VINTAGE LOOK IN PHOTOSHOP

Which one do you prefer?

The power...