I have put back the smart sharpening article until Sunday… In the meanwhile the conversion of the garage continues with the Greg and I sealing the concrete floor ready for painting. We have put together a little video for you entertainment.
I was pretty blown away by the power of the content aware scaling when Photoshop CS4 was launched last year, but up until now I have not really found away to use it well. So watch and learn how to expand a background. Its so easy, its child’s play 
Last Tuesday I started the conversion of my double garage into a photographic studio and I thought I would share the journey that many of us take as that next step from working at home and shooting clients on location, to having a studio where clients can come to us for a portrait session.
In this screencast I will show you how to take a different approach to Unsharp Mask by using the “HiRaLoAm” sharpening technique with Photoshop. If you are a fan of USM then give this variation a try. When used on the right image and can really make it pop!
We want to make sure that all our products are supported beyond the initial launch. So with this in mind every now and again I will be adding an extra screencast over and above the scheduled one to help those of you with foto edge fx expand its uses and get a little more creative with Photoshop.
Today, we are going to look at sharpening jewellery with the hi-pass filter. This is one for all of the wedding photographers out there, who are probably knee deep in digital albums and slideshows right now. So hopefully when it comes rings, tiaras, bouquets, and other details this technique will prove to be invaluable for you.
Creating a tilt & shift lens effect to create fake miniatures is probably the second most popular effect next to creating HDR’s at the moment. So to end the week, here is a little bonus screencast where I put my own spin on the whole “Honey I Shrunk the Kids” look! 
In this updated screencast, I show you the power-user secrets of sharpening in Adobe Camera RAW. If you have already watched this screencast then give it another go, because I somehow managed to lose 3 minutes of video between recording, editing and uploading it. So in this new version, I show you in full how to make the most of sharpening your RAW images with a little help from Spike the Pike!
I am always looking for ways to improve existing techniques and this weekend I was working on a wedding I shot earlier in the year and I realised that I needed to improve my teeth whitening technique to get a better looking smile. So I have borrowed one of the images from the Big Picture and in this screencast I show you how to refine the teeth whitening technique.
In this screencast I will be showing you how to create a “Lomo” effect with Photoshop CS4. I have included an action from the settings used in the screencast for you to download and try out on your own images.
Adobe Photoshop is an application that has been long since used by other creative mediums. Whether it be digital art, web design, graphics, animation, science, to name but a few… It is a lot of things, to a lot of people and that is probably why in CS4 you can now customise it to suit your own needs. In this post, I am going to show how to get the most out of the Swatches Panel from a photographers point of view.
I was asked recently. ” If I were to buy a PC today which one would I go for and what spec? ” Now, my first reaction was Yuck! I would never go back to a PC, as I am now a pure MAC-head. But lets assume for a minute that Apple did not exist, then what PC setup would I choose as a photographer and why?
Stuart Little is a Professional Photographer and Photoshop Trainer with over 18 years experience in the field. The Little Photoshop is home to Stuart's articles, screencasts, training dvds, actions and inspiration based around the topics of Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, Digital Photography and Off Camera Lighting. Learn more...