Auto Photo Eraser

Simple portraits are beautiful and worthy of being shared online, but sometimes, they can look a bit boring. However, that doesn’t mean you need to delete every portrait that looks too dull. Knowing how to enhance simple photos will: Make you a better retoucher Inspire you to find beauty even in the most insignificant places Encourage you to get better at mastering simple themes and compositions Before you’re even tempted to delete that rich collection of simple portraits, try to enhance them using these incredible Photoshop tools. Patch Tool If you look closely, you’ll notice that a few of the model’s blemishes and neck wrinkles are gone. Even though the patch tool might seem like an insignificant part of Photoshop, it will make your editing workflow easier. This handy tool will patch up any blemishes on your model’s face. You can also use it to get rid of wrinkles, stray hairs, and  facial hair . Simply draw over the area you’d like to fix and

One of the big draws of Lightroom for many users is its ability to use presets. And there are a million of them out there. Free and paid Lightroom preset packs are everywhere you look these days. But there are very few available for Capture One. It’s those purchased presets that put a lot of photographers off switching away from Lightroom. They don’t want to feel they’ve wasted their money by no longer using them. But now, a new Lightroom to Capture One preset converter, the imaginatively titled  Preset Converter , might make your choice a little bit easier. Preset Converter is available for both Windows and Mac, and offers various options to convert your Lightroom presets into Capture One’s “Styles” using a simple drag and drop interface. You can either do them individually or organise them into “stylepacks” – These are how Capture One essentially organises styles into categories. The software attempts to match up the Capture One style as close to the Lightroom Preset’s

Everyone has been taught from birth how to get a kid to smile. You just tell them to say “cheese” and they respond with a nice big natural smile, right? Well, anyone that’s actually tried this can testify to how well it works (if you didn’t catch my sarcasm… it doesn’t). You end up with a photo of a kid with clenched teeth, a scrunched nose, and raised eyebrows. In this article, I’m going to give away all of my secrets that I’ve picked up as a professional children’s photographer for getting nice, natural smiles out of children. #1. The “I’m going to get you” game You know the game… The one where you say “I’m going to get you!”, slowly move towards the kid while wiggling your fingers and tickle them for a second, back up, then do it all over again. I will tickle the kids once, back up, focus, fake another attack, and take a few photos when they giggle. As a bonus, you get a great workout running around. #2. Peakaboo Play peekaboo behind your camera. Make sure the camera

Pro tips for sharpening your focus underwater. Sharp focus is the cornerstone of ­nature and wildlife photography. In nearly all great photos, the subject and/or critical feature of the subject is in sharp focus. Luckily for us, ­modern digital ­cameras have sophisticated ­autofocus systems that instantly bring subjects into focus. These autofocus systems perform best in bright light. Wide-angle shooters often benefit from great ambient light — macro shooters can face challenges coaxing the camera to focus under ­ledges and other dark areas of the reef. Autofocus systems use pattern borders and contrasts to find focus; it’s harder to distinguish these features as a scene gets darker and duller. Armed with this basic knowledge, we can apply some techniques to help the camera focus and create sharp, ­high-impact images. Use a Focus Light All macro shooters should carry a focus light mounted on the top of the housing or strobe arm. This light shining on our subject makes all

If you're not doing close-up work, why not? Here are your opportunities to explore new worlds without leaving home. Close-up and macro photography truly bring you in contact with new worlds. We don’t easily or normally see the details of life around us, and this is especially true of non-nature photographers. I remember the first time I got a close-up photo. It was of a syrphid fly on a daisy. I was a kid and had made a close-up lens from a magnifier and attached it to my dad’s Argus C3. That camera was no SLR, so I had to make a focus-and-frame stick to aid in those areas. The fly was in focus (though not really sharp), and it was exciting to see it in my print. I have access to some amazing close-up and macro gear, but I still love that fresh view on the world. Shooting close-ups with a digital camera also means I immediately get to see and be amazed by small-scale life with the LCD review. Close-up photography can be a lot of fun. There are so many subjects that can t