A surreal photo edit is not a filter. It is a composite or a heavily graded image that shows something impossible in a way your eye still believes, and the work sits in three places: one impossible idea you commit to, a composite where the scale, perspective and light direction all agree, and a single … Read more
To make a photo composite in Photoshop, open your photos as layers in one document, isolate the subject with a selection, hide the rest with a layer mask, then match the light, color and shadows so the result reads as one photograph. There is no single “composite” button. The whole job is four tools used … Read more
To cut out a person in Photoshop you make a selection of them, refine the edges inside Select and Mask, and turn that selection into a layer mask. The mask holds the cutout without deleting a single pixel, so the person can move onto any background later. On a clean, well-lit photo the whole job … Read more
Learning how to crop photos for Instagram without losing quality comes down to three moves: crop from the largest original you have, never zoom past 100 percent, and export an sRGB JPEG at the exact pixel size for the ratio you are posting. Ten minutes in any editor, and the post arrives nearly as sharp … Read more
A Black and White adjustment layer sits above your photo and maps every colour in the layers beneath it to a grey tone, with a separate slider for reds, yellows, greens, cyans, blues and magentas. The whole conversion happens on its own layer, so you can dial it in, mask parts of it, and switch … Read more
Black and white photography for beginners is the easiest place to start learning photography, because taking the colour away forces you to look at light, shadow, shape and texture instead of at whether a wall is red or green. You need nothing more than a camera, a subject and ten minutes outside. This guide walks … Read more