Every two weeks, we revisit some of our reader favorite posts from throughout the history of Phototuts+. This tutorial was first published in August of 2009.

In this video tutorial Simon shows us how to add more texture and character to your portrait photos during a post-processing workflow. The result is a wonderful high key portrait with loads of charm! This tutorial will help give your portrait photos a professional look.

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Every two weeks, we revisit some of our reader favorite posts from throughout the history of Phototuts+. This tutorial was first published in November of 2009.

It takes a lot of ambition, interest, and curiosity to have the drive to go back to the traditional roots of photography and get stuck into manual photographic printing and processing. For me, however, I find this to be an utterly rewarding process in my constant exploration of the medium.

In this tutorial, I will go through the basics of what is needed to set up your very own black and white photographic darkroom.

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Every two weeks, we revisit some of our reader favorite posts from throughout the history of Phototuts+. This tutorial was first published in November of 2009.

Black and white photography is a beautiful medium and an artform practised by some of the world’s greatest photographers. But newcomers to black and white photography, however much they enjoy it, may miss one thing – colour. The good news is that it’s easy to add colour to black and white images. Photographers have been doing it for decades, both in the darkroom and digitally, through a process called toning.

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PhotoTuts+ author Ivaylo Gerchev recently published a series of in-depth tutorials aimed at taking you from beginner to pro in Lightroom in only one week. Today we’re following that up with a few quick and easy Lightroom tricks that you can quickly add to your workflow whether you’re just picking up the app or have been using it for years.

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