Selective focus is a photographic effect that places one area of an image in sharp focus while blurring the rest. Traditionally you'd achieve this effect with special camera lenses; with the advent of ...

A few more non-destructive tools, new shortcuts, and other helpful changes.

A very useful skill in Photo manipulation is the ability to selectively alter an area. If you can selectively colour an area you can use the same technique to apply a whole range of effects to very ...

Cropping an image in GIMP and other graphics programs highlights the area of the image that you want to retain and deletes the portion of the image that fall outside this area. You can use cropping to ...

I’ve spent a long time bouncing between Photoshop and its alternatives, until I eventually completely ditched the Adobe subscription and started solely relying on free and open-source editors. Like ...

Over six months ago, I stopped using Adobe Photoshop and switched to the open source alternative, GIMP, for all my personal photography projects. This wasn't the impossible task that most people ...