Recreating analogue effects

However good your camera and lens, raw files usually benefit from some processing and tweaking. Rod Lawton shares some essential enhancements

Get to grips with the powerful toolset on Mac

We love moaning. The raw file won’t open, the firmware update wiped your settings. But spare a thought for the early adopters – when digital photography meant ghostly battery life, media cards that could barely hold a lunch break, colours that made everything look a bit ill. Peter Dench hears from top shooters about those early frustrations and breakthroughs, and adds his own…

Let’s play with Photoshop’s hue, saturation and colour tools, says James Abbott, for four effects that work with most images

Overcome common problems and create better-looking shots

Like the vibe of a famous painting? Use Camera Raw’s Color Transfer filter to reference works of art, as James Paterson explains