Photo editing is crucial to the final ‘polish’ in your images. The good news is it doesn’t have to take hours to edit images! Lets jump into the quickest ways to bring your photos to life.
Taking the perfect picture is nowadays much simpler than it used to be. You no longer have to take thousands of pictures until a perfect one is shot. Also, you no longer have to use different artificial additions in order to remove blemishes. There are different programs that you can use on your computer to …
Maximizing images with black and white points Setting the white and blacks widens the tonal range of an image so that there is a full range of color in the image from black to white. This can give your image a little extra ‘pop’. In the short video below, I’ll explore how changing the whites …
If you haven’t moved over to Adobe’s Creative Cloud for Photographers yet, Lightroom Mobile could be the smartphone or tablet app that tempts you. Its a fantastic app for your phone or tablet that makes editing on the fly simple and fun. Lightroom Mobile provides two enormous benefits. • Editing of DNG (RAW) files • …
Introduction Advances in digital photography are solving more and more of the technical challenges either in camera e.g. 61 point autofocus systems or in post production e.g. Lightroom/Photoshop. If we all stood in front of the Grand Canyon, we’d all probably come away with some ‘decent’ shots. But how many would be that different and …
What is Split Toning? Split toning is the process of adding different colors to the shadows and the highlights of an image. In the days of film, this was done in the chemical printing process. For instance, Ansel Adams used selenium to intensify and give a slight purple in the deep blacks. Toning could also …
In this article, photographer Peter Domican LRPS talks about how Lightroom and the Hacking Photography Monthly Edit course have changed the way he thinks about photography, as well as shares some helpful editing tips and examples. How the Monthly Edit helped me switch from Aperture to Lightroom By good fortune, I found the Hacking Photography (HP) Monthly …
Since Lightroom 6 and Lightroom Creative Cloud came out with the ability to do HDR images I’ve had a lot of fun working with some of my older HDR sets. With this new excitement I decided to create an HDR Lightroom tutorial so you can see how I go about creating and then editing HDR …
I’m really excited to announce the Monthly Edit Membership Lightroom training site launch is a success! Hundreds of you have joined the site since its launch and my email just a few days ago and I’m humbled by your enthusiasm. For those of you who haven’t heard, I just launched a Lightroom training membership site …
So the new Lightroom 6/CC update came out yesterday and had two awesome features I want to show you. I’ve only had the new software for a day so I’ll create more updates in the coming days to share with you. New big feature #1: Panorama stitching inside Lightroom! Previously a feature you could only find …
This blog will be a very short but extremely useful one. I’m going to show you how to make sure your city, architecture, and landscape shoots look great. The most useful tool in the lens corrections tab explained in a 4 minute video: Keystoning – what it is and why you need to fix it …
