Had not been posting for weeks due to studies commitment and yeah I kinda got lazy on my fingers too..

I was just about to take a bite off my chinese dumpling this evening, when I chanced upon this photo I shot with my gf at Niagara Falls, Canada last year. Arggh, there was this irritating water spot blur on the photo as my lens was wet from the mist rising from the falls. Suddenly, I thought, why didnt I try to solve this problem earlier on?

To achieve those fading off effect that can be seen in coffeetable albums, posters and magazines can be really simple if you already know how to do vignetting effect already. In fact, this simple effect can be achieved in 3 simple steps that you will not take more than 5 minutes to learn and apply.

In normal cases, to achieve a HDR image, you need at least 3 different exposures of the same subject to record the highlight, midtone and shadow levels. This means one have to set up his camera on a tripod to ensure the images stay constant and uses at least 3 different kind of settings to take the photos. Let say, if you only have 1 photo and you wanted very badly to make this photo looks “HDRed”, you can actually do that in Photoshop.

I was looking for ways to create digital backdrops in Photoshop so I am able to simulate a professional studio shot using a normal photo. At first, I keep finding websites that either require me to buy a plugin or buy a EBook. After sometimes, I finally found a YouTube Video by PhotographyBook.net that teaches for free on how to create a digital backdrop in Photoshop.

Today, I will post a very basic skin softening technique, that can be applied on faces of female subjects to give their skin a more smooth look and a touch of glamorous shine. These kind of softening techniques are widely used in the creative industry where you see models with soft and perfect skins in movie posters, advertisements, etc…

You got the latest quad duo core processors fixed onto your motherboard with the fastest bus speed that is available in the market now. You also got a monstorous graphic processing card that have enough power to run your 3D games concurrently over and over again. And you got tons of photos that need some adjustments to them, which will take some couple of light years as you had to do them 1 by 1.

Do you find that whenever you has the time to take your camera out to shoot some photos and yet the weather is so gloomy that you feel like going back to your bed and rot away? Here is a little trick to make dull and grey sky become bright blue sky in Photoshop!

I can remember the days when I just got my first digital camera and was so disappointed when most of the shots turned out underexposed! During that time, I do not have much knowledge of photo correction technique in photoshop and I just leave the photos alone and wasted and finally deleted.. If I knew there is such an easy method to correct exposure problems in Photoshop, I would have done all I could to save those photos.

Having a bad face day especially on a big day that you will need to have alot of photographs taken? Will your pimples or blemishes accompany you through your life everytime you gasps in horror looking at the photographs? Don’t worry, you have Photoshop to save the day. The ultimate goal of this tutorial is not to teach you just to remove the blemishes but make the photo look smooth, real and nice.

How do you whiten teeth in your photographs? No, you don’t need to pay a single cent out of your pocket to ask a dentist to correct the colour of your teeth and you take the photograph again. Now, you can do it yourself in Photoshop within 5 minutes! Yes, it is so easy to whiten your teeth in Photoshop. You do not have to be a professional digital designer to do this task.