Tag Archives: Effect
How to Add a Lens Flare Effect in Photoshop
Do you put a hood on your lens to avoid lens flare? Are you always moving and reframing so that the light source is behind you? Then you have missed out on some great creative opportunities. But not to worry, … Continue reading
How to Easily Simulate a Tilt-Shift Effect Using Photoshop
You might not know it, but even if you’ve never heard of tilt-shift photography you have probably seen a photograph that was captured in just such a way. A few years ago tilt-shift photos exploded into the mainstream with oddly … Continue reading
How to Backlight Translucent Objects for Dramatic Effect
Incorporating translucent elements into your compositions can add an interesting dynamic of luminosity to your photographs. Especially if you can backlight them. Water spray, smoke, steam, and things such as flags, flowers, and fabric when backlit can take on an … Continue reading
Lomo Effect Tutorial in Lightroom
The signature look from an old Russian film camera called a Lomo LC-A is blurry edges, a sharp center, very saturated colors, and lots of vignetting. Even if you don’t own a Lomo camera, you can achieve this iconic look. … Continue reading
Tutorial: How to Remove the Staccato Effect from Timelapse Photography
Any photographer who’s ever taken on the challenge of creating a timelapse video is all too familiar with the flickering, staggered staccato effect. Caused by shutter speeds that are too quick to properly capture the motion in between frames, the … Continue reading
How to Create a Rim Light Effect Using Photoshop
Lighting is a huge integral part of a movie’s success. The same applies to photography. It’s all about the light or lack of it to create the drama in an image. Rim lighting, as the term suggests, is also called … Continue reading
Using the Bokeh Effect in Child Portraits
“Bokeh” is a beautiful soft effect in which the background of a photograph becomes like circles of blurred, translucent light. As a professional photographer, my lifelong quest has been to consistently capture images of a child’s face in which everything … Continue reading
How to Create an Infrared Effect in Photoshop
Note: For this tutorial I am using Photoshop CS6, however every version from CS2 up will work for this technique. What is Infrared Photography? Infrared (IR) light lies just beyond the visible spectrum, so we can’t actually see it with … Continue reading
Photography Zoom Effect: Racking the Lens
A zoom effect, in photography terms, is an effect in an image that looks like the subject is moving either toward you or away from you with lines of motion. It’s also known as racking the lens. The information in … Continue reading
Creating a Lens Flare Effect and Dust Particles in Photoshop
This article isn’t about how to magically transform your images using Photoshop. The real magic of Photoshop is trying to convince the viewer that no effects were added at all, and that the image was captured in camera. Photoshop can add … Continue reading
How to Create a Silky Water Effect in Post-Processing without Using Filters or a Tripod
Smooth water effect edited in Affinity Photo using the Live Stacks feature. Even if you don’t shoot landscape photography, photos of waterfalls with the smooth water and glassy appearance are awesome. The gist to achieving this, and I do stand … Continue reading
Tips for Shooting Through Objects to Create a Special Effect
Photography is as much a study of the creative, as it is a study of the technical. Often, knowing all the technical ins and outs of your camera, still does not guarantee a stellar image – an image that evokes … Continue reading