Nature Photography How To

Remember when replacing a dull, drab sky in Photoshop was a cumbersome, complicated, and time-consuming process? Well that’s a thing of the past, thanks to innovative new automated features that make this task about as easy as it gets.

Greg Benz is an accomplished landscape photographer with some serious post-processing skills, and in this Photoshop tutorial he reveals how to create epic seascape images by blending a series of photos into one killer shot.

Whenever Adobe updates their software  it seems like one or two features grab all the headlines, like Photoshop's recent Lens Blur capabilities. At the same time, other powerful tools tend to be overlooked as you'll see in this tutorial from our friends at PiXimperfect .

We've been working our way through all new features in the latest update to Photoshop, so you know the best way to use them. The tutorial below from Photoshop Café demonstrates the power of an oft-ignored tool that one of our favorite image-editing instructors says, "changes everything."

Adobe recently updated Photoshop with several exciting features and tools, and the new Selection Brush is one of the most powerful for processing landscape shots and other outdoor images. This 12-minute tutorial from the Rogala Photography YouTube channel showcases the enhanced selection capabilities of this versatile tool so you can take advantage of everything it can do.

The Super Zoom tutorial below doesn't involve shooting with long telephoto lenses; rather, it's all about how to use Photoshop's oft-ignored Super Zoom neural filter. This powerful tool enables you alter the appearance of a photo by zooming in and cropping a portion of the image before Photoshop takes over and adds extra pixels to compensate for the subsequent loss of resolution and detail.

Whether you’re attempting to photograph the Milky Way, or simply trying to capture a sparkling nighttime sky over your backyard, astrophotography can be intimidating. And once you’ve captured a few shots, editing the images may also seem like a daunting task.