A Photoshop Technique For Darkening Around A Soft Outline

Introduction We have just added this photograph of a Herdwick sheep to our range of ecards. The original image had a distracting background and this article explains how I removed it without ‘rubbing out’ the delicate edges of the the fleece. Love And Economics The fleece of the Herdwick sheep is a rich brown color, … Read more

Nikon D700 and Nikon D60: Comparing Image Quality

This is a semi-technical article, comparing the image quality of the Nikon D700 and the Nikon D60 in controlled lighting conditions. If you don’t want to plough through the details, the cropped images from the two cameras are at the end of this article – take a look and let me know what you think. … Read more

Coco Chanel, Fashion Icon: Untangling the Threads

Towards Liberating Women from Corsets At the end of the 19th century, it was customary for ‘properly’ dressed women to spend their days imprisoned in ornate dresses with padding and layers of underclothes including corsets which restricted movement and were very confining. It was Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel who used her fashion genius of design and … Read more