Digital Camera World

Digital Camera is the definitive guide to digital SLR photography and will show you how to improve any digital photo. It’s packed with practical photography advice and Photoshop tutorials to help you become a better digital photographer. With buying advice to help you choose the DSLR, compact system camera, lens, tripod, printer, or camera bag that’s right for you, it covers all DSLRs including Canon EOS/Rebel and Nikon systems. The perfect title for both amateur and pro photographers

Digital Camera World

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It’s lighting-up time in Bath • Alistair Campbell shadows Sam Nash on a fashion shoot that uses some glorious Georgian backdrops

Photo Active • 10 things you can shoot, edit or create this month, from woodland portraits to weddings and wildlife

Take a textured self portrait • Melinda McIntyre explains how this simple technique can add a fine-art aesthetic

Autumn mornings • Richard Potter finds early autumnal mornings the best time to shoot

Great try, marvellous mono conversion • Alistair Campbell shows how you can use cropping, clarity and contrast adjustments to get a flat, basic-looking image over the line

A shroom with a view • Autumn is the perfect time to practise off-camera flash, says Alistair Campbell

Bask in the Earth’s glow • Siân Monument visits Llyn Padarn for low-light landscape photography

Go on a stag weekend • If you’re looking to try a different type of photography, then head out to capture a deer, says Alistair Campbell

Love the light • Johnson Wee explains how to go the extra mile for couples shots at weddings

Autumn knights • Ken Medwyn uses a telephoto lens to freeze the action

Making scents • Alistair Campbell creates perfect product posters from home with digital backdrops

The art of seeing • Benedict Brain creates boundaries and simple strategies to show you how to stimulate creativity in your shots

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Hotshots • Outstanding images from the 15th edition of the Landscape Photographer of the Year contest

MASTER RAW! • Transform your captures with just 10 essential edits in Adobe Photoshop CC’s Camera Raw. Dan Mold shows you how

1 HOW TO CROP AND FIX LENS DEFECTS • Some simple tweaks to get you familiarised and started in ACR

2 BASIC RAW EXPOSURE ADJUSTMENTS • Lift the shadows, retain highlight detail, adjust your exposure and boost colours in this important editing stage

3 SHARPEN YOUR SHOTS FOR BETTER DETAIL

4 REDUCE DIGITAL NOISE TO SMOOTHEN YOUR SHOTS • How to smooth out graininess and unsightly noise

5 USE TARGETED ADJUSTMENTS TO ENHANCE YOUR IMAGE • Work on specific areas of your image with these three adjustment tools

6 FIX GEOMETRIC DISTORTION WITH THIS GREAT TECHNIQUE • Go to the Geometry panel to stop buildings from ‘leaning’

7 TAKE CONTROL OF COLOUR • Finesse your colours and tones with ease

8 CONVERT TO CLASSIC BLACK & WHITE • Simple steps for creating a striking moody mono masterpiece

9 ENHANCE YOUR PORTRAITS WITH THE SPOT REMOVAL TOOL • Discover how to tidy up blemishes and remove distractions easily

10 SAVE AND EXPORT YOUR FILES • Finish off your work by saving your edited photos

Camera College • The complete guide to modern photography

Create traffic trail blends • Learn how to combine a sequence of night-time long exposures in Affinity Photo and use simple layer tricks to perfect the results

Reader gallery • Digital Camera readers show how they’ve been getting creative,...