| Tutorial | Summary |
| A Method of Color Correction | Today’s digital SLRs make an effort to record the White Balance (WB) for each shot taken. If shooting in Raw, this information is then used by the Raw converter to set the WB for the shot. Although cameras are getting better with time, this estimated WB is not always satisfactory. You are occasionally left with an undesirable color cast.
The method that I am about to describe works very well for shots taken outside the Golden Hours, i.e., those hours when the WB is expected to be warmer than normal. While the technique may appear to be rather labor-intensive, you will soon discover its merits and will use it on quite a few shots. Its goal is to find the ideal pixels on a shot that may be sampled by the black, white, and middle gray eyedroppers in either a Curves or Levels layer (the Curves layer will be used in this tutorial). |
| Combining Multiple Shots - Part 1: Resolution | The advent of the Age of the Digital Camera has ushered in practices that we would never have considered in the days of film. No longer are people constrained in their shooting by the cost of film. Pixels are cheap and, as a result, it is commonplace to take more than one shot of a scene.
One reason for taking multiple shots of a scene is to increase the final image resolution of that scene. This tutorial, which includes the techniques for creating a multi-shot panorama, addresses this subject. |