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Peter Holst David duChemin Photographer and adventurer Comedy’s

How to get your 23 digital gifts

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Welcome

H appy new year! Anyone looking to get the

Following the gameplan

Professional photographer James Clarke has imported an American style of sporting portraiture. Niall Hampton sees how it plays on home turf

Photo Active

10 things you can shoot, edit or create this month, from ice skating and cathedrals to winter foxes

HARNESS THE POWER OF RAW!

Take your captures to the next level with this 10-step tutorial for Adobe Lightroom Classic CC. Dan Mold is your expert guide…

CAMERA CINIC

Master the art of modern photography

Digital Darkroom

Transform your photos with our easy, effective guides

Expand your images

Crop outside your frame in Photoshop and discover a clever hack for detailed AI-generated fills with James Paterson

Correct warped perspective

Sean McCormack uses Lightroom Classic’s Transform tools to improve the look of a shot that was taken in a hurry

Optimise your phone shots in Photoshop

Smartphones are our most useful cameras, so let’s enhance our shots, says James Abbott

Bring the drama with colour-grading tools

Discover how to use adjustment layers in Affinity Photo to add mood and colour to a lacklustre image, with Wendy Evans

Blur the background

Wendy Evans explains how to change the depth of field in telephoto shots using the Lens Blur tool in Lightroom or Camera Raw

Click, click, gone

Sean McCormack tries ON1 Photo RAW’s new Generative Erase

Ask Matthew...

Sketchy about shutter speeds? Disoriented by dynamic range? Send your technique and camera questions to digitalcamera@futurenet.com

Indoor still life challenge

Send us your best shot to win a £50 voucher towards CEWE Wall Art

The art of seeing

Benedict Brain gets excited by abstracts in Andalusia in this month’s photo adventure

Hotshots

Our showcase of the winning entries from the Wildlife Photography of the Year Awards 2024

Reader gallery

Digital Camera readers show how they’ve been getting creative, submitting images across a range of genres

Shot of the month

Benjamin Yavar, winner of the Photography category of 2024’s ViewSonic ColorPro Awards

In Focus

The latest photography news from around the globe

The Photography & Video Show 2025

The greatest event on earth (for photographers) is fast approaching!

Scanning ahead…

In a make-or-break year for the camera market, Jon Devo suggests throwing out the playbook

Guru Shorts

We’ve joined up with GuruShots, the world’s greatest online photography game, to present the winning images from its Animal Kingdom contest

David duChemin

INTERVIEW

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