tutorials Archive

  • featured

    Bringing back the Lomo Effect Tutorial

    I recently published an article about a new set of actions that I have created - the Lomo effect action set and I have had a bunch of emails sent through to me asking for a tutorial, showing step by step how to achieve it, so here it is :)

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    Selective Colour in Black and White Images Tutorial

    This seems like an easy thing to do but I’ve noticed that people are still asking about it So here’s how you can achieve this effect with this easy to follow tutorial. All the edits that you are doing are 100% none destructive, which means that you can...

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  • rule-of-thirds

    Taking awesome photos: Part 3 – Basic Composition

    Ok so we have slugged through white balance and how to expose an image, now we are going to learn how to compose an image.

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  • Kelvin-temp

    Taking awesome photos: Part 1-White balance

    Welcome to the first part of many articles about how to take an awesome photo. The best place to start is getting the colours right. And to get the colours right we need to know about white balance. A lot digital camera owners don’t understand/...

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  • forumss

    New AllyKatDesign Forum

    Feel free to come and have a look around, register, ask your questions and receive your answers! Make it your happy place that has all the answers that you seek :) See you there!

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  • sin-city-final

    Creating Sin City Rain

    Definition of frustrating: trying to re create sin city rain and having to trawl through a bunch of useless tutorials that just say the same thing over and over again! Never fear loyal readers, I have perfected the perfect sin city rain effect. Here’s the...

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  • poses

    From Studio to Finished Image

    I’ve received a lot of requests from people asking about my work flow and how to achieve the same results. I’m going to show you how to recreate this image: The hard work was done with my lighting set up in order to get the...

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  • before&after

    Orton Effect Tutorial

    In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to achieve the Orton effect, that you can find in my latest group of actions. 1.  If you have retouched the image and made density corrections, press crtl-shift-alt-E to make a merged copy of the image....

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  • Before&After

    Bleach Bypass Tutorial

    In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to achieve the Bleach Bypass effect, that you can find in my latest group of actions. 1.  If you have retouched the image and made density corrections, press crtl-shift-alt-E to make a merged copy of the...

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  • before&after

    Holga Effect Tutorial

    In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to achieve the Holga effect, that you can find in my latest group of actions. 1.  If you have retouched the image and made density corrections, press crtl-shift-alt-E to make a merged copy of the image....

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