Photoshop How To

So what in the heck are bokeh lights? The term bokeh describes an eye-catching effect that's achieved by shooting with a fast lens at maximum aperture to create soft-out-of-focus backgrounds that accentuate the main subject in an image. It powerful method that can be employed at any time of day.

One of the biggest challenges when photographing expansive landscape scenes is that they often include such a wide of tones that it's almost impossible to achieve balanced exposures with a single shot in the camera. Today you'll learn how to remedy this problem in the following beginners guide to exposure bending.

Reflections in ponds, lakes and streams can be powerful elements for boosting the impact of images shot in the field. The trick is understanding how to accentuate nature's mirrors when you don't quite get things right in the camera.

You're may tire of hearing us sing the benefits of selective post-processing techniques instead of taking the quick approach of making global adjustment to an image as a whole. Well, apologies for that, but here's another great example for you to consider from David's PNW Adventures.

You've likely heard a million times that you should forget about Jpegs and always shoot in the Raw file format. But is this really true? According to this tutorial from the Photography Explained YouTube channel, the answer isn't is clear or definitive as you've been led to believe.

Landscape photographers typically strive to capture images with attention-grabbing colors, but sometimes flat lighting conditions make this difficult to achieve in the camera. Fortunately, there's a simple Lightroom tool for making the fix as you'll see in this tutorial from the popular PHLOG Photography YouTube channel.

Inexperienced Photoshop users tend to take a global approach to editing their images by relying upon adjustments that affect the photo as a whole. Today's tutorial from the PHLEARN YouTube channel provides yet another reason for using a local approach instead by making selective adjustments to different elements within the frame.