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Helen Bradley - Photography (and Photoshop)
www.projectwoman.com/phototips.html
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My Photoshop and photography blog includes fun photography and Photoshop tips, tricks and techniques. I'm Helen Bradley and I'm a photographer and Photoshop aficionado - in fact, my life was never the same the day I got Photoshop 6 and my first (borrowed), Pentax K1000 camera.
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Capture a great Panorama

There’s something very compelling about panoramic images. They’re much wider than regular photos and, instead of showing the small portion of a scene that is in front of the camera lens, ...

14 h ago

Ho-Hum to Wow! in Gimp

  Some time ago I wrote a blog post http://projectwoman.com/2 009/03/photoshop-color-that-pa cks-a-punch.html which involved using the LAB color space to adjust an image. In the interests of those...

5 days ago

More Flexible Lightroom to Photoshop editing

If you work in Lightroom, at some stage you’ll probably want to take an image to Photoshop for some additional processing. How you send it to Photoshop will have an impact on the options available to...

08 feb 12

Create a collage in Gimp

One task I perform regularly in Photoshop and Lightroom is to assemble multiple images on a single page for printing.  I love displaying my photos, for example, as triptychs –which are three side by ...

07 feb 12

Cool Suffolk Sheep

On the weekend I had the chance to photograph some suffolk sheep, the lambs were so cute and the ewes too. Click here for the picture gallery. Cool Suffolk Sheep is a post from: projectwoman.com Powe...

06 feb 12

Slideshow Titles with Identity Plates in Lightroom

Identity plates are one of the best kept secrets in Lightroom. There are lots of ways that you can use Identity Plates in Lightroom not only to customize the interface as I discussed in this post: ht...

04 feb 12

Winter Photography Tip # 9 – Camera care

Most cameras work just fine in cold weather but their batteries don’t so you’ll treat your camera one way and batteries another. To avoid condensation affecting your camera it’s best to keep it...

03 feb 12

5 Gotchas in the Lightroom Print Module

When you’re setting up single or multiple image printing in the Lightroom Print module here are some things to be aware of: Nonexistent Drag and drop You can drag and drop pictures onto a print templ...

31 jan 12

Winter Photography Tip #8 – White balance

When you are photographing in snow conditions there are situations where you’ll need to adjust the white balance so that snow is white and so it doesn’t have a blue cast. On the other han...

31 jan 12

Smarter Content Aware Fill

If you’re like me, you’ve tried out the new Content Aware Fill feature in Photoshop CS5 and you’ve been left just a little bit disappointed. What Content Aware Fill does is to replace unwanted areas ...

27 jan 12

Winter Photography tips #7 – Work with what you have

Winter scenery typically lacks the bold colors of the other seasons. However, there’s still plenty of good subject matter to photograph. Look for the contrast of bare trees against wintry skies or so...

26 jan 12

Do you clean your own Sensor?

Every digital camera user will have confronted or will confront one day the issue of sensor dust. Every time you change the lens on your SLR there is a chance that dust will enter your camera. Some o...

24 jan 12

Winter Photography tips #6 – Light and Shadow

The light in winter is different to light in summer and because the sun is lower in the sky you get longer shadows. When taking photographs in winter, take notice of where the shadows are falling. If...

22 jan 12

Winter Photography tip #5 – Play with Depth of Field

Winter is a great time to capture images taking advantage of your camera’s ability to create depth of field effects. Get close to your subject and use an aperture setting of f2.8 or f4. When yo...

19 jan 12

5 Top Tips for Lightroom Develop Presets

Develop Presets are powerful Lightroom tools. You can use them to quick start your editing in Lightroom and to apply creative fixes to your images. You can create your own presets and you can downloa...

17 jan 12

Winter Photography tips #4 – Capture Reflections

When you’re looking around a scene for photographic opportunities take the time to look down as well as out and up. Winter brings with it not only stiller waters but also puddles created by rai...

14 jan 12

Ten best Photoshop shortcuts

Photoshop has a huge range of shortcut keys for speeding up your day. Here are my ten best shortcut keys that I suggest you add to your Photoshop toolkit: Find the sizing handles When you paste a lay...

12 jan 12

Pattern fills for your Excel 2007 charts

In Excel 2003 and now in Excel 2010 , there are pattern fills which you can use to fill chart bars so your charts print just great in black and white. Unfortunately the same feature was removed from ...

10 jan 12

Photoshop – 6 “must save” settings

One feature of Photoshop is its ability to store things like custom shapes, brushes and workspaces so you can use them again and again. Saving settings you use a lot in Photoshop will save you time i...

10 jan 12

Winter Photography Tip #3 – get in close

Often it is the small things that offer the most creative opportunities in winter photography. Look for the little things around you such as a drop of water hanging from a leaf, or a steaming cup of ...

10 jan 12

Winter photography Tip #2 – Grab the Color

Any splash of colour in a winter scene will show up beautifully and can be the makings of an attractive image. Look out for things as simple as a blue sky over a snow covered mountain or a skier’s ja...

07 jan 12

Winter photography tip #1 – B&W

Most digital SLRs and point and shoot cameras can capture black and white images. Winter is a good time to experiment with this feature because of the general lack of color. Find and enable this feat...

04 jan 12

Lightroom – help my import dialog just shrunk!

I just got a help! email from a reader who lost her import dialog. It had shrunk to a small size and none of her regular options were available. She is using Lightroom 3 and this shrinking dialog is ...

30 dec 11

Quickly access Excel 2010 formula requirements

Ok.. so you want to use an Excel formula and you know it is, say, SUMIF that you want to use, but what data does it need and where? Before you go searching through help or cranking up your browser, l...

28 dec 11

Blow it Up with Alien Skin Blow Up 3

I’ve never used an upsizing or enlarging program before. Instead, when I need to enlarge an image, I perform the age old trick of increasing an image’s size by 110 percent multiple times in Pho...

16 dec 11

Things to know about Lightroom Collections

Collections in Lightroom are a key tool for organizing images. There are some benefits to working with collections and some things that it helps to know about working with them. Collections: Smart or...

08 dec 11

Work in the Lightroom Quick Develop panel

  In Lightroom you can fix a series of images all at once using the Quick Develop Panel in the Library Module. While this tool lacks the precise adjustments you can make to an image in the Devel...

05 dec 11

5 Things to know about the Lightroom Import dialog

In Lightroom 3 the Import dialog was updated and there are heaps of cool tools here to speed up and make the import process more efficient. Here are five things that you should know about the import ...

30 nov 11

Craft great Black and white images in Lightroom

Most of us know we can convert and image to black and white in Lightroom by simply pressing the letter V. However, for the exact same image, your version of Lightroom might give a very different resu...

25 nov 11

Lightroom’s Selected and Most Selected Images

One of confusing things when you’re getting started in Lightroom is understanding the concept of selected images and the most selected image in Lightroom. Step 1 To see this at work, start in the Lib...

23 nov 11

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