Ok… so I did the Pintesting thing. For the uninitiated, “pintesting” is actually attempting one or more of the bajillions of things you’ve “pinned” on your Pinterest boards. These are my Pinterest boards. As you can see, the craft and cookery ones are choccers full of stuff I would like … Continue reading
Yesterday I got the urge to bake. It was 4pm, I’d been bored for much of the weekend and I thought “Man, I just want to bake something”. I felt like making ginger biscuits because Tony had given me some that he’d made on Friday, which I all but inhaled … Continue reading
As a photographer and digital creative, I’ve grown to love using a tablet and stylus to help with my workflow. Everything from drawing and inking in Illustrator to shading and retouching in Photoshop is made easier with the use of a system that mimics pen and paper. As much … Continue reading
I’ve been asked (on a couple of occasions) what my sort of workflow is. I have to admit, I really don’t have one. Some days I will edit ten pictures in exactly the same way, other days I will spend ten hours on the one image, barely doing anything to … Continue reading
Right. So, let’s say you’ve done a great photo shoot, you’ve got some mad photos of some beautiful women* and you want to make them look their best for your portfolio and theirs. Problem is, their skin? Not so good. Great make-up but there’s a little too much in the … Continue reading
I must apologise for the lack of content here recently. As a design student now in my second year of my course (part time) I am pretty busy with homework a lot of the time. I hope to have a range of different tutorials up over the coming weeks though. … Continue reading
Converting Colour to Black and White, the Cool Way. In the Beginning, God (in this case, Adobe) created Photoshop. And on the seventh day, He edited his photographs in Photoshop and was pleased; for they were good. And on that day, He bade his subjects go out into the world … Continue reading
Vignettes, those wonderful dark edges in photos and artwork alike are the bane of my existance. Why? Because they are overused and they are used in the wrong flippin’ way. Vignetting should never be used simply “because [you] can”. It should be used to increase the appeal of an image … Continue reading
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