Janel Kesten

Quick and easy lens correction

It happens to everyone, you’re reviewing the vacation photos and all the shots are great except they’re a bit off. One’s crooked, the other is partially distorted and the last one has a building that towers over everything else. How can you fix all of these without doing multiple transformations per image or giving up hope to salvage it? It gets easier with Photoshop’s lens correction filter. Photoshop has one filter to fix a myriad of lens-related problems which is helpful since most photos require at least one of these solutions. Most problems can be fixed, but you should stay….

Perfecting Group Photos Part II

If you’ve been following along, the last post covered tips on creating a better group photo from multiple shots. The two photos I’m using as examples aren’t ideal because they’re captured at different focal lengths. Luckily, the photos were captured one after another and they didn’t move at all. The problem: Chris is smiling in one and Danielle is smiling in the other. So I must combine the two so they’re both happy at the same time! I’ll do this through layer masks and some simple resizing. The basic principle of this example can used as a solution for many….