Elevate Your Images & Transform Your Creative Editing to Create the Work You Want to.

Many photo artworks have untapped potential, and the editing process is where that magic often happens. I’ve created these digital tools to help you enhance your images, streamline your workflow, and explore your creative vision with confidence.

Tailored specifically for photographers, these resources are practical, easy to use, and designed to inspire. Whether you’re looking to refine details or add bold artistic flair, my tools can help you achieve stunning results.

Start exploring and discover how these carefully crafted tools can elevate your editing and bring your vision to life.

  • Add a timeless, painterly touch to your portraits with our collection of expertly crafted hand painted digital backdrops by Richard Wood. Perfect for photographers and digital artists, these backdrops are designed to seamlessly blend with your paper backdrop or wall work, providing a classic and artistic feel to your images.

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  • Unlock a world of creativity with our meticulously crafted collection of 100+ halos, designed to elevate your portraiture to celestial heights. Whether you're aiming for a subtle glow or an ethereal, divine effect, this digital product has everything you need to make your portraits stand out.

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  • Transform your Painterly Fine Art Portraits with these Backdrop Overlays. Collected and curated by Richard Wood and completely royalty free. Add a painterly, classic touch to your fine art portraits with this collection of expertly captured smokey overlays.

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  • Add a touch of atmosphere and mood to your photos with our collection of expertly designed light ray overlays. Perfect for photographers and digital artists, these overlays are designed to seamlessly integrate into your work, enhancing your images with striking light ray effects.

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  • Add a touch of magic to your photos with our collection of beautifully crafted bokeh overlays. Perfect for photographers and digital artists, these overlays are designed to seamlessly blend into your work, enhancing your images with a captivating bokeh effect.

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  • Ready to infuse your images with the captivating allure of smokey effects? Start transforming your work with the dramatic effects of our smokey overlays pack. Elevate your artistry with ease and create stunning, atmospheric visuals.

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  • Add a floral touch to your Images with Our Curated Antique Floral Paintings Overlay Pack! Infuse your photos and creative work with the timeless beauty of antique floral masterpieces using our collection of public domain paintings. Perfect for photographers and digital artists, these overlays are designed to seamlessly blend into your work, providing a classic and artistic backdrop to your creations.

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  • Transform Your Images with Our Exclusive Texture Overlays Pack! Add depth and dimension to your photos with our collection of expertly designed texture overlays. Perfect for photographers and digital artists, these overlays are crafted to seamlessly integrate into your work, enhancing your images with unique and creative textures.

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  • Add a touch of brilliance to your portraits with our collection of expertly crafted catchlight and iris enhancing brushes. Perfect for photographers and digital artists, these brushes are designed to bring out the beauty in every eye, enhancing your images with captivating detail and depth.

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  • Creative Effects PS Actions

    A collection of special Painterly and Creative Photoshop Actions, created by Richard Wood which is used in his own workflow.

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  • Controlled Colour Grade PS Actions

    My effective system of Colour Grading made easy with one click Actions which set up a template for magnificent control over color

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  • Painterly Portrait Actions

    The secrets of Painterly Editing at your finger tips with detail enhancements and smoothing at the touch of a button.

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  •  In this course, I show you how to light your subjects for that renaissance look and then take you through step by step editing processes which pushes that moody, emotive, expressive and artful look even further. With numerous lighting setups, followed up with my special 'painterly' editing techniques from which you. can pick and choose from to your own taste.

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  • Do you struggle to think of creative, and genuinely new ideas? I am sharing my decades of experience and the methods I use as a photo-illustrator, photographer and advertising creative. By the end of this course you'll be very well armed with the tools and methods which allow you to talk with the'creative self' we all have inside us.

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  • A brand new course on its way hosted by Richard Wood and Craig Turner Bullock. In this course you'll not only learn how to light animals in the studio and outdoors in a generous number of ways, alongside a wealth of editing... but also how to handle them so they become your best models they can be.

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Richard Wood Photographer

Richard Wood

One of the most notably awarded creative photographers in the world. NZIPP Grandmaster III photographer and educator. Stage presentations have included WPPI, The Portrait Masters Conference and The NZ Photography Show.

Richard's dedication to nurturing the next generation of photographers is evident through his comprehensive online courses and in-person workshops. His teachings cover a broad spectrum of photography, providing aspiring photographers with the tools and techniques they need to excel in their craft. Richard's approachable style and in-depth knowledge make him a sought-after mentor and educator in the photography community.

NZIPP Grandmaster III,  WPPI Grand Award Winner, International Icon Grand Award Winner, 5 Time NZIPP New Zealand Photographer of the Year Winner, Asia Pacific Photography Awards Grand Award Winner, WPE First Place recipient.

Testimonials

  • "Richard has taught me things that nobody shows anywhere! His way of working on raw is amazing and allows you to get all the details you can. Since he showed it to me, it is the basis of my work on each photo."

    Kamila J. Gruss
    Poland

  • "Richard's classes are by far the most inspirational I own.  The behind the scenes look at his work alone makes the class worth it not to mention the in-depth education you will receive. Richard's technique is unlike anything I've seen from other instructors and an invaluable tool to have in my 'creating toolbox'. "

    Rachel Owen
    Chicago, USA

  • "His love, passion and depth radiates from each and every of his remarkable masterpieces, so is his patience and sincere motivation to share and pass on knowledge through his teachings,
    - giving all he has and knows."

    Felicia Shuette
    Caribbean Netherlands

  • "I had been looking at many courses and teachers online, but none of them helped me create that extra sense of magic and heightened reality that moves me so deeply when I go to the Prado and view works by the Masters. Richard’s courses were the ones that finally helped me learn how to make my photographs express the depth of emotion that I wanted them to."

    Riccardo Castro
    Madrid, Spain

  • "When his class came out I had to snap it up to see how it could help make my composites more realistic. I was drawn to the class to learn how to use textures and overlays to more seamlessly complete the composites..."

    Shelley Wolfe Franklin
    Arizona, USA

  • "Richards courses has really helped me take my portraits to a whole new level and has helped me get a nomination for PPA Grand Imaging Award for Pets Category also two Gold medals and two silver medals from Master Photography International this year. "

    ​Travis Patenaude
    Spain

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