How to add a special effect to your photo
Generally speaking, when shooting a scene, you are concerned with creating a realistic photo. The photo copies everything as an accurate representation of a subject. But sometimes, what we want is not a standard photo. We want a photo with a special effect. Such an effect makes the photo...
How to reduce the noise in your photo
You may encounter such a problem in digital photography. After you take a shot of a scene, you will find that the photo turns out grainy. This is known as noise in digital photography. It is caused by many reasons. You boost the ISO level so that you can...
How to increase the color intensity without affecting already saturated parts
As a photographer, sometimes you need to post-process your photo with different adjustment tools. Perhaps saturation is the most often used tool in photo editing. It controls the color intensity, brightening or deepening colors. Saturation adjusts all pixels in a photo. So the pixels with high saturation are treated...
How to add a vignette effect to your photo
Human eyes tend to be attracted to the brighter regions of a photo. The darker regions lead our eyes towards them. If the edges of a photo are the brightest areas of the photo, it will distract our focus on the center, which is adverse to the overall impression...
How to fix the harsh lighting to soften shadows
Light is the core of photography and affects our photos in many ways. As a photographer, you may know two terms: hard light and soft light. Hard light and soft light create different qualities of shadows and transition between bright and dark. Hard light makes sharp edged shadows with...
How to make color adjustments by mixing color channels
Our eyes are unable to pick out many different levels of light and darkness. But they are much better at distinguishing different colors. In order to get the full photographic color on screen, we make use of the RGB model, which is a system to stand for colors. R...