40+ Amazing Mac Apps for Photographers

“If you are running on mac, you can find a lot of apps all over the web. There are many Mac apps for photography available for download now but finding the good ones is not easy. You have to sort them from the rest which are not good based on your requirements.

Thus, we come up with a list of amazing mac apps that you can use to enhance your digital images. This is to narrow down the list from which you choose the best apps you need for your photography. For those who are looking for nice mac apps without spending a buck, you can get the free items here. If you are a more serious photographer on the other hand, and you don’t mind taking a cheaper option, you can get premium mac apps here for as low as $0.99. Others of course, cost more than that, but that depends on their features and capabilities. You just have to visit their websites to learn more about them. Either way we believe that these apps have cool and great features ready to meet your photo editing, sharing and photo organizational needs. Enjoy!”…..MORE from Tripwire Magazine

1. Snapheal

It’s a snap to fix bad pictures with Snapheal. You will be able to erase unwanted objects, fix skin imperfections and more in a matter of clicks and seconds. This app does magic.

2. Pixelmator

Pixelmator is an inspiring, easy-to-use, beautifully designed image editor built to help you create stunning new images and edit your existing photos. Pixelmator takes full advantage of the latest Mac technologies, giving you speedy, powerful tools that let you touch up and enhance photos, draw or paint, apply dazzling effects and just have fun with your pictures.

All the amazing apps here

Cambridge in Colour Tutorials – Intermediate

If you have made it through the beginners tutorials then you will be ready for this section on intermediate tutorials. You will find many other fascinating tutorials on the Cambridge in Colour site.

These are helpful for refining technique and taking your photography to the next level:

Concepts: Understanding Depth of Field & White Balance
Editing: Using the Levels, Curves & Sharpening Tools
Equipment: Tripods & Lens Filters (UV, GND, ND & Polarizing)
Technique: Reducing Camera Shake & Utilizing Natural Light

 

© Christina Kirkegard Intermediate Photography Course 2011

45 Tutorials And Techniques To Become A Master Of Photography

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This post showcases a list of useful and unique photography related tutorials that will help you learning the skills of a trained photographer. The field of photography has extensively grown over the past few years to such a huge industry with millions of photographers emerging every day around the globe and mastering their skills in different areas of photography.

The tutorials listed below let you learn how to capture a digital photograph in a better way and then direct you all the way throughout photo-editing process by means of using photo-editing software such as Photoshop.

such as

Self Portrait Photography Guide

or

Infrared Photography Technique

Read the full 45 here

 

The 8 Basic Things Every Photographer Should Know How to do in Photoshop

As  Mike Panic says in this article on Lightstalking, PS is a program that can confuse and irritate because of the scope of it’s options. These 8 basics are some that you should know about. I think some consideration of density controls like levels and colour controls like colour balance would be the 2 that would make it up to 10 basic things.

“Despite the name, Photoshop was created more for graphic designers, not photographers, but photographers looking to airbrush their digital files quickly adopted it as their go-to piece of software.  By the time v7 came out, specific tools, plugins and actions were being created for photographers and Photoshop could handle the RAW, or unprocessed files from digital cameras.

Anyone who’s opened up Photoshop knows it’s not exactly a straight forward application – it does take some knowledge to be proficient in it and productive.  All that aside, here’s a few tips that all photographers should know how to do in Photoshop.”

Click Here: The 8 Basic Things Every Photographer Should Know How to do in Photoshop

Photoshop Layer Masks, how and why

Layer masks are a great asset to Photoshop and can open up an entire new world of photo editing – once you know how to use them. If you already understand the concept of layers, you know that layers can be adjusted in transparency – referred to as the opacity level in Photoshop. This makes the top layer invisible to a certain extent and allows the bottom layer to be seen. This is adjusted using a percentage rate – 90% opacity would be barely see-through, while 10% opacity would make the layer virtually invisible.

Wouldn’t it be great to select which areas of your layer you want transparent, and which remain visible?

This is entirely achievable with layer masks by adding one to your layer – which you can then use your brush tool to paint on. A black brush will remove parts of your layer that you don’t want visible, and a white brush will do the opposite – in other words, it will reduce the transparency.………more

by Christopher O’Donnell

For Better Photos, Learn How to Recognize Good Light

Understanding the power of light is more important than a fancy camera or expert Photoshop skills. Learn the best times of day to photograph and why the way the light hits your subject matters more than the subject itself..……more

This is a really good article and an interesting read

Written by Ben Long

“This shaft of light on the ground was a noteworthy compositional element because of its shape and its interplay with the shadows in the background. But I knew that the image needed a subject, so I waited until someone walked through the light shaft. I got lucky (and luck is often a big part of good photography) because the light shaft was tall enough that it highlighted the man’s shoulder and head.

There was nothing about this alley or the man that caught my attention. I started with the light and made an image from that.”

 

 

 

 

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 you. One option in Lightroom is to take an image to Photoshop as a Smart Object and that has some advantages. Here’s how to do it and why you might consider using this feature....more

This tutorial is by Helen Bradley  a Lifestyle journalist who divides her time between the real and digital worlds, picking the best from both. You can view her site at helenbradley.com. She writes and produces video instruction for Photoshop and digital photography for magazines and online providers world wide. She has also written four books on photo crafts and blogs at Projectwoman.com. This tutorial is on Digital-Photo-School.com

Do You Read These 8 Cool Photoshop Blogs for Tutorials?

More useful help from Lightstalking, this time a list of blogs and sites with Photoshop tutorials and help. I use a number of these and can recommend PS Tuts, Photshop Tutorials and PS Deluxe but I will definitely check out the others. Online tutorials are extremely useful because someone else has done all the work and are prepared to share their efforts with you for free. Here is a link to the Lightstalker post  As it is now several months before we run our Photoshop course again you should use these to help you get going with Photoshop

How to Get Dramatic Skies in Lightroom

Creating dramatic skies in Lightroom is a bit different than Photoshop, but you can easily achieve similar results. The goal is to bring out the true drama of a sky that the camera can often leave out by Christoper O’Donnell at Lightstalking

Click Here: Light Stalking » How to Get Dramatic Skies in Lightroom

10 More Places for Free Photoshop and Lightroom Plugins

Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom are software programs that provide very robust editing capabilities for graphics, images, and photographs. But sometimes you want them to do just a little more. That’s why plugins were invented! Plugins are usually made by third-party developers and deliver even more graphical and photo management capabilities. Lightstalker have covered some places that offer free Photoshop plugins before, but here are 10 more places that offer free plugins for both PS and LR users.