An introduction to our ‘Creative workflow’ tutorials

"Another clear and easy to follow tutorial from you David, thanks very much. You lay out what the initial considerations should be and then walk us through how we should attack each stage to improve the end result. You continue to make it sound really simple, and in fact, the steps you've gone through ARE simple, which is why they're so much fun to follow. I think you're cheating though. Your starting point is always much better than mine ! :) I love the 'Creative Workflow' series, keem them coming please."

Justin Photis

"Thanks for yet another fine tutorial. The interweb would be a better place if more photography tutorials were of this quality, both in terms of the content and the presentation."

Adrian Park

"Thank you for a great tutorial. This has really helped me with thinking creative workflow to an end goal/message rather than focusing on individual mechanical steps."

Jean Eichenlaub

"Another great tutorial David, thank you."

Jason Christie

"Once again you clearly lay out the, relatively, simple steps towards achieving the final result. There are plenty of links to previous tutorials where you've highlighted the technique you were using and the final image looks fantastic and really achieves what you set out to get.

The difference between the teacher and the students, is that clear vision you have about what you want to achieve in your final image & you've got that technical know-how to get there.

Great as always."

Justin Photis

"Thank you for the latest tutorial, it was very informative. The words in your final paragraph really made me think and it sounds so simple but I find that I struggle to convey what I want an image to say and in the process I get frustrated. This lack of clear vision in turn means I keep working an image until its a mess and I finally give up due to the frustration. This is one of the reasons why I have gigabytes of images on disk and none framed and hanging on my walls. One day maybe it will click into place..."

Jason

"Terrific tutorial. I really appreciate hearing not only the what, but the why behind your approach.

Thanks!"

Steve

"Great!"

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"I like this, yes the technical information contained is stuff that's been covered before but that's the whole point, you can be told all the technical information and you can understand it, but if you can't think about where you want you picture to end up it'll end up a like like a run-away train. Some of the changes David outlined look miniscule, either with the curves or with some of the cloning out, but when they are put in context with his comments you think, yeah, I get why now."

Justin Photis

"Wonderful tutorial, I couldn't help but think what a nice complement Michael Freeman's book, The Photographer's Eye would make to this particular tutorial. If you had a section on suggested reading I highly recommend it as it explains color theory very well and in a major way reinforces what you are teaching. (the section of moving your eye through the image is there as well."

Tim Valloces

"Another outstanding tutorial David. It's really well written and helped me already to understand some of the thought processes that go into producing such superb images."

Roger

"This has been worth waiting for. Like many people, I can follow the step by step process with sample pictures and understand the techniques involved. I then open one of my own and wonder what I should do first, adding curves and other layers at random without really understanding what I want to achieve."

Steve