Thanks to the built-in apps, adding text to your photos on a Windows, Mac, iPhone, and iPad is extremely easy. On Android, the Google Photos app allows you to write text on your pictures. We’ll show you how to do that on all …
It’s easy to take a physical object into a paint store and get the color matched. But what if you like a color in an Instagram photo? That’s trickier, but we’ll show you how to match paint colors to digital images….
Adobe Photoshop makes it extremely easy to add a border around your text in an image. You can outline your text with the choice of color, position, and size. Here’s how to do just that on your desktop….
Frequency separation is a Photoshop technique that allows for more control over photographic retouching work. It’s predominantly used to touch up skin, but can also be used on other elements of an image….
If you regularly browse photography gear reviews, you’ve probably heard the phrase “focus breathing.” But what exactly does that mean? Is it good or bad? Does it not matter at all? We’ll explain just what focus breathing is, …
If you’ve ever seen someone else’s footage captured with the same drone you own and wondered “how does it look so good?”, there’s a good chance it was made with a drone camera filter attached. Here’s why you should use them t…
Whether you’re using a smartphone, drone, or action camera, you might have a choice between making a timelapse or a hyperlapse. Although they sound similar, each has a different purpose. All timelapses compress time, but hype…
Wondering what the ISO setting is for on your camera or smartphone camera app? Let’s break down what exactly ISO is and why it’s important to understand if you want to take more control of your photography….
There may be a lot of detail in your photos that you aren’t seeing. The good news is that you can often recover this detail by expanding the dynamic range of your photos, making for more balanced and interesting shots….
While mirrorless cameras have advanced plenty since their introduction and dominate the market, there are still plenty of amazing DSLR cameras you shouldn’t overlook. We’ll go over some of the best options here….
If you’ve shopped for a new camera in the past couple of years, you’ve noticed how rapidly memory card formats are changing. XQD cards were released not too long ago, and now there’s a new type of card available that promises…
Smartphone cameras with super-high megapixel counts make for good marketing, but hardly anyone actually takes 200-megapixel photos. So how do you get usable pictures from them? Through pixel binning, the process of combining …
Whether you’ve been a photographer for years or you’re just now getting into it, you can’t avoid the conversation around mirrorless cameras. Is mirrorless the future? Is a mirrorless camera better than a regular digital singl…
Most people take photographs at human scale or larger. Pets, people, landscapes, and food are all common subjects. With “macro mode,” you can take clear pictures of small details and objects, with certain iPhone or Android ha…
Adobe announced a brand new web and mobile service called Creative Cloud Express, which looks like it will compete with other template-based image editors such as Canva.
Instead of flipping photos after taking selfies, you can capture “mirror selfies” automatically as they appear in the preview you see on your iPhone. Here’s how to do it.
Adobe Lightroom’s masking tool used to be limited to certain adjustments, but the 2021 update changed that. Lightroom Classic now provides you with numerous AI masking features that make editing a whole lot easier and can cut…
You can get the most out of Adobe Lightroom Classic by combining different masking modes for highly selective adjustment areas before you even bring your work into Photoshop. We’ll go over how to combine (or intersect) masks …
Deselecting areas in photos and layers in Adobe Photoshop is actually easier than selecting them. We’ll show you how to deselect items using multiple ways in this photo editing tool.
Do you prefer a different color for an object in your photo? If so, use Adobe Photoshop’s Replace Color tool to change the color. It’s easy, and Photoshop does the heavy lifting for you. Here’s how to do it….
Whether you’re looking to fix your mirror selfies or you just want a flipped version of an image, Adobe Photoshop makes it easy to flip images, both horizontally and vertically. We’ll show you how to do it….
Need to shrink that large logo that has its own layer on your photo? Make use of Adobe Photoshop’s various options to resize your layers. We’ll show you how to do just that.
If you’d like to rotate your digital photos, Adobe Photoshop offers various tools to do that. We’ll show you how to rotate your photo with predefined, custom, and freeform options in this app.
Cinematic mode debuted alongside the iPhone 13 and 13 Pro as a way of shooting smooth, cinematic footage with an emphasis on depth-of-field. We’ll show you how to shoot your next masterpiece with it.
Learning to use a 35mm film camera can be intimidating. There’s no screen to check, so you need some way to gauge exposure without burning through frames the way you would with a digital SLR. A light meter app can save the da…