After years of working on movie poster images I've come to really love some of the rich textural treatments the designers I've worked with create. So whenever I am out shooting images for myself I inevitably look for things I can use as textures with other images I may play with later on. I've built up a library with lots of shots of wood, rust, water, greenery, basically anything that looks interesting.There

One of the most useful techniques in working on an image is to do selective burning and dodging, that is carefully darkening and lightening parts of an image to define edges, create a sense of detail or even to add "shape" to a part of the image.As a digital artist I've seen many different ways of doing this, and most work pretty well. The most common way is to make a copy of the layer and just use

As a digital artist I tend to look at images trying to find easier ways to get certain looks or effects. When a group of photographer friends were discussing various in camera techniques they used one of them shared a self portrait he had done where he really liked the pronounced blue tone he had achieved.I liked the look, but thought his process didn't give him much control so I opened up a shot he