These days photography is all about using your digital camera and Photoshop together and Digital Photo’s Spring issue will show you how. With a mixture of D-SLR and software advice in the magazine and in new and exclusive how-to video lessons on the cover CD, there’s plenty to learn! Get stuck in to the Spring issue and find out about all this…
New & improved video lessons!
Digital Photo is the home of the UK’s best Photoshop video lessons – but guess what – we’ve just made them even better! The new hi-resolution format gives you superb HD-style quality, making it even easier to follow along with your own personal digital tutor.
Learn Layers in Photoshop
The ultimate guide to using Layers and Selections is here. You’ll learn everything you need right from the basics of the Layers palette to how to create your own amazing montage and composite images in Photoshop or Elements.
Photo Answers D-SLR Special
The UK’s most popular camera questions are answered in this D-SLR special, teaching photographers everything they need to know from buying the right new gear to improving results from the kit you’ve got.
Camera Craft: Off-Camera Flash
Get striking professional results using simple and accessible kit in this easy-to-follow guide to off-camera and studio flash. We’ll show you what you need and how to use it, so strobist success is guaranteed.
Technique of the Month
Turn your photos into a watercolour painting with this easy-to-follow recipe. Use the templates on the CD and follow the video lesson to see how it’s done with your own pictures.
Photographer of the Year 2010
Don’t forget to enter our new Photographer of the Year competition where your pictures could win you a share of the enormous £34,000 prize fund, courtesy of Nikon, Jessops and Spirit of Adventure – click here for more details!
Tested: Canon EOS 550D
What’s the big deal about Canon’s newest entry level D-SLR and is it worth your hard-earned cash? Find out in our exhaustive review and see if this 18Mp D-SLR will have Canon users reaching for their wallets.
Tested: Affordable Studio Flash
To complement this month’s Camera Craft tutorials on using studio flash, we put five home flash kits under £500 through a gruelling group test. Kits from Bowens, Elemental, Elinchrom, Interfit and Lencarta battle it out.
Tested: Superzoom lenses
These ‘all in one’ zooms cover everything from wide-angle to telephoto shooting, but which one is God’s gift to photographers? We test seven new models around the 18-200mm range from Canon, Nikon, Olympus, Pentax, Sigma, Sony and Tamron!