dpreview articles: Software Techniques

The new Blur Gallery in Photoshop CS6 provides a powerful yet easy to use interface to create selective focus and tilt lens effects. See these tools in action and learn how to successfully apply them to your own images.

Photoshop actions in combination with batch processing can make short work of tasks that you perform frequently. Creating them is easier than you may think and can greatly increase your productivity.

Photoshop guru Jean Miele shares an advanced Photoshop workflow for making skin smooth and radiant, without taking all day to do it.

It's easy to create and add textures to images, creating a more painterly look that adds depth and dimension. Learn how painting with pixels can help you create some striking imagery.

There are a variety of image editing tools to increase the appearance of detail in your image. Understanding how they work will allow you to choose the right tool for the job at hand.

Both digital graduated neutral density filters and single image HDR Toning, as well as multi image HDR processing, can effectively even out the exposure within images that have areas that are far too light or too dark. Certain situations may lend themselves more to one approach than the other.