October | 2019 | Learn Photography by Zoner Photo Studio

3 Practical Examples of How to Edit Car Racing Photos

22. October 2019

Photographing motor sports is not at all just about capturing buzzing bikes and cars. At races, you’re also taking background portraits and reportage photos, for example, and some of those pictures are closest genre-wise to landscape photography. But when it comes to editing, you’ll still be spending the most time on the main heroes—the racing vehicles. And that’s what I’ll be exploring in this article. I’ll be using three examples to show you the edits that are most commonly needed to make your racing photos shine.

Create Your Own Pop Art Photo - comparison

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Create Your Own Pop Art Photo: It’s Easy with the ZPS Editor

17. October 2019

Celebrate the colorful 1960s with a bold photo transformation. This time around we’ve prepared an article on how to give your photos a little extra pop with a pop-art effect. Just dig around in your archive and find a suitable photo, and in a few minutes you can have your own original graphical retro piece ready for printing. Even if you’re no Andy Warhol. Let’s look at how to do it.

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How to Use the Gradient Filter to Improve Your Photos

14. October 2019

Gradient Filter functions are generally used for darkening or coloring the top of a photo—usually the sky. They basically replace a physical gradient filter that you’d place over your camera’s lens. But the Gradient Filter in ZPS X is also highly customizable and offers lots of creative opportunities.

How Does a Landscape’s Light Change During One Day? - landscape in evening

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A Photo Experiment: How Does a Landscape’s Light Change During One Day?

10. October 2019

Inversions, afterglow, misty morning, and above all, light. These are the magicians of thanks to whom we love landscape photography so much. For today’s article, we’ve prepared a little experiment. Our editor Josef has headed out for some fieldwork into a field and spent all day capturing a landscape’s changes from dusk to dawn and back to the afternoon. Read it and see for yourself how every landscape has countless faces.

Foundations of Portrait Composition Part II - ballet dancer

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Foundations of Portrait Composition Part II: Learn to Use Your Model’s Environment

08. October 2019

The most important thing in portrait photography is your subject. But that doesn’t mean that their environment doesn’t have any role to play. Not at all! The things that a picture shows in its subject’s surroundings have a share in how that picture feels overall. Even an ordinary bush can ruin an entire portrait—or bring it to perfection.

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Athletics Photographer Aleš Gräf: How Usain Bolt Made Me Fall Off a Table (But Not Really)

03. October 2019

At the end of September, the photographer and athletics enthusiast Aleš Gräf will head out to Doha, Qatar, where this year’s World Athletics Championship will be held. He’s being sent there by the Czech Athletics Federation as their main photographer. Read on to find out how he got his start in photographing events like these,…

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How Do You Fix Unhealthy Skin Tone? The Tone Curve Will Help

01. October 2019

Having the right skin tone is key for portrait photography. But it often turns out that bad light or color reflections from your subject’s surroundings have given their skin an unhealthy look. You don’t have to throw these photos away, however. You can solve this problem easily using tone curves in Zoner Photo Studio. We’ll show you how.

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Making your adventures look epic

30. September 2019

“The photos just don’t do it justice.” Have you ever found yourself muttering this disappointedly when trying to describe the way the colors of the sunset reflected in the mountain lakes below you? Or that special shade of blue in the water of a glacier-fed stream to your friends after your adventure? You tried to take a picture to capture the moment, but the results were somewhat unfulfilling to say the least. Is it actually possible for travelers who are not professional photographers to end up with great photos of their trip? To find out, my fellow travel enthusiasts and I at 10Adventures decided to try Zoner Photo Studio X.

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Annotations: Mark It, Describe It, Show the Way. Try out This New ZPS X Feature.

26. September 2019

Say it with a picture. When you want to describe something for someone simply, graphically, and quickly on a photo, our Annotations feature is here to help. You can use it to caption a photo or mark important places and objects. There’s a truly wide range of ways to use it. Read on to read up on everything that Annotations can do.