Here's my father's portrait when he was twelve years old. It was his passport ID photo when he left Hoisan to join his father in Yreka, California. At one time there was actually a small Chinese community in Yreka. …

I though I'd do a Scott Robert Lim number here and show you a before and after photoshop to the previous image. Now...what did I do....first I converted the image to black and white via channels (refer to that previo…

(left: Before Soft Filter, right: After Soft Filter) I've been getting a lot of good feed back concerning my photoshop tutorials here. So...here's another one! Here is one that you will absolutely love. It's like…

The next thing I usually do with an image like this is to add vignetting or burning on the edges. By darkening the edges, I'm directing the eye toward the area of the main subject. Which is usually the lighter parts …