Photoshop tutorials

Copyright 2016, Jim Austin Jimages, all rights reserved. Making panoramas, you can improve your framing and editing skills by combining Photoshop and Lightroom. Jim Austin, photo coach, shows you how [read more]

The Navigator Panel The Navigator Panel allows you to “navigate” around your image at large magnifications. To find it, Click Window -> Navigator. When your image is enlarged bigger than [read more]

Think of Panels as miniature workspaces, each accomplishing a different function. There are almost two dozen different panels available to you, but in the spirit of K.I.S.S. (Keep It Super [read more]

Bullet of Faith A bullet speeds out of a gun. Everyone knows how this sounds and how it looks. It is a standard subject in photography. It’s been captured by [read more]

Part 2.   Now let’s do some burning and dodging. This is a much simpler method than we discussed in previous tutorials, but just as effective. After you try this, [read more]

So, you just got used to Photoshop CS5, and there’s a NEW version on the way? Yikes!!! But don’t worry, there are some rather nice features in Adobe’s just-released Photoshop [read more]

Purpose: Sharpening your images shows more detail and enhances focus in your image. Due to failures in digital technology, which tend to introduce “softness” into your images, it’s usually necessary [read more]

Two Photoshop plug-in filters were used above. “Shatter”, by Zenofex at AlienSkin, was the first filter. You can also try Photoshop’s built-in crystallize filter. A soft blur was the second [read more]

In the days before digital imaging, Steichenlab in Toronto had a wizard who could actually dodge and burn slides. Before he left to pursue a music career in Montreal, he [read more]

In my last article I explained how you can use Photoshop to mimic photomontages of the old days (with slide film). I explained how you can combine two variations of [read more]

NOTE: This article is for older versions of Photoshop (prior to CS6/CC), but the fundamentals still apply. PURPOSE Selection tools and techniques will give you the ability to make corrections [read more]

I do not use the Dodging and Burning tools in Photoshop’s Tools Panel: I find them cumbersome, hard to use, ineffective and a bit destructive. Instead, I use a non-destructive [read more]

Part 2 (Return to Part 1) But this isn’t what we want, so we need to change this layer’s mask. Click on the mask to make sure it is active, [read more]