Digital Camera’s 10-part series ‘Teach Yourself Photoshop’ builds into a complete video reference library. These easy-to-follow video guides will take you on a start-to-finish journey through perfecting your photos in the digital darkroom. In this tutorial, you’ll discover how to use the Levels command to boost shadows and highlights to create a wider contrast range and improve exposure. Click the links to the right and build up the complete collection with each new issue of Digital Camera.

Digital Camera’s 10-part series ‘Teach Yourself Photoshop’ builds into a complete video reference library. These easy-to-follow video guides will take you on a start-to-finish journey through perfecting your photos in the digital darkroom. In this video find out how to use a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer to create a black and white image and tweak specific areas. Click the links to the right and build up the complete collection with each new issue of Digital Camera.

Digital Camera’s 10-part series ‘Teach Yourself Photoshop’ builds into a complete video reference library. These easy-to-follow video guides will take you on a start-to-finish journey through perfecting your photos in the digital darkroom. In this tutorial you will discover how to get to grips with Adjustment Layers to perfect your photos by improving the colours and tones of a shot in just a few easy steps. Click the links to the right and build up the complete collection with each new issue of Digital Camera.

Digital Camera’s 10-part series ‘Teach Yourself Photoshop’ builds into a complete video reference library. These easy-to-follow video guides will take you on a start-to-finish journey through perfecting your photos in the digital darkroom. In this video you’ll learn how to enhance the skin tones in your portrait photographs by using the Levels command in Photoshop Elements. Find out how to adjust the shadows and highlights to create a range of tones while keeping all the details in your portraits. To watch more videos in this series, click the links on the right, and build up the complete collection with each new issue of Digital Camera.

When shooting a subject with the sun behind them, or stood against a bright, illuminated background, a little fill-in flash is essential to balance the exposure of your image. Without the powerful light produced by the flash you will risk plunging your subject into unflattering, gloomy shadow. This will not only result in under-exposure of the image’s main subject, but will also affect the reproduction of the colour, tone and detail in the whole portrait. By using the Lighting Effects feature you can pinpoint the centre of the added light to maximise the effect on the image, giving it the edge over a simple Levels adjustment. Watch the video to find out more…