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Tips for How to Enhance the Mood in Your Foggy Photos
I love photographs of foggy scenes. It can be a view of a busy street, a sprawling city skyline or a secluded mountain valley. Mist and fog are transformative and can give a well-known location a...
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How to Create Silky Split Toned Black and White Photos Using Luminosity Masks
Have you ever found it hard to choose between processing an image in color or black and white? It can be a tough decision. Enriching colors that instantly captivate your attention versus a timeless...
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Six Reasons to Upgrade From Lightroom 6 to Lightroom Classic CC
If you’re a Lightroom 6 user you may be wondering whether it’s time to upgrade to Lightroom Classic CC. Yes, it will cost you more to move over to the Lightroom Classic subscription, but you will...
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Post-Processing Workflow Tips for Landscape Photography
While your in-camera technique is most important, the ability to post-process your landscape images also plays a role in your final product. Each photographer approaches the digital darkroom in their...
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Software Overview of the New ON1 Photo RAW 2018.1
The world of photo editing is changing and as more people are picking up cameras to take photos, it also means those same people are looking to process them. ON1 is one of the leaders in that change....
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Five Common Portrait Retouching Mistakes to Avoid
When it comes to retouching portraits there are a number of mistakes that I see photographers make over and over. Part of the problem is that there are too many poorly made skin smoothing plugins....
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How to Get the Most from Lightroom Presets
Where should I start when talking about Lightroom presets? The subject has been covered so many different ways by so many different writers that at times even I think there’s nothing left to say. Or is...
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Tips for Quick Photo Editing in the Field
In today’s world of fast and super fast consumption of everything, perhaps photography and photographers are an anomaly in that we obsess over editing and over-editing our photos until the cows come...
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How to Make Fake Shallow Depth of Field Using Photoshop
Do you see your photo and wish the subject stood out a bit more? Does your photo look somewhat flat? Or maybe the background has people or objects that are unappealing? All of these can be fixed with...
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How to Add or Remove a Vignette Using Lightroom
You have likely seen photos on the internet which are well-exposed at the center, but the brightness starts reducing towards the edges. If you are not familiar with the name of this effect, it is...
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How to Simulate Venetian Blinds Lighting Using Photoshop
When you’re having a romantic dinner you light it with candles and not a bright reflector, right? That’s because light contributes to forming an atmosphere. When you’re making a photograph, measuring...
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How to Easily Watermark Your Images Using Lightroom
In this article, I’m going to show you just how easy it is to watermark your images using Lightroom. With photography, it’s the simple things which often become the most important. Simple moments like...
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How to use Photoshop Droplets and Actions to Automate Your Workflow
Most photographers who do any kind of event photography (including corporate or weddings) need to find ways to automate aspects of their photographic workflow. This is because events usually generate a...
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Raya Pro Photoshop Plugin – How to Simplify and Speedup Your Workflow
For a long time, my solution for a faster workflow was to create my own Photoshop Actions. But in the last couple of years, I’ve implemented another third-party software into my workflow, the Raya Pro...
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How to Make Custom Camera Raw Profiles for Lightroom & Photoshop
Adobe just released a huge update to Camera RAW for Lightroom and Photoshop, which includes the ability to make creative custom camera RAW profiles! Above is a video tutorial showing you how you can...
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4 Tips to Organize Your Photos in Lightroom
Lightroom is one of the most widely-used programs for photographers today, with good reason. In addition to extensive editing options in the Develop module, Lightroom also contains a bevy of tools to...
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Tips for Editing Hockey Photos in Lightroom
In this article, I’ll give you some tips for editing hockey photos using Lightroom. If you’re a hockey mom or dad, read on to make the photos of your kid on the ice stand out. Shooting hockey is hard...
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How to Use the Lightroom HSL Panel for Landscape Photo Editing
If you are a landscape photographer, you might already be using various lens filters to get desired colors and saturation in your images. What if you do not own these filters or forget to carry them...
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ACDSee Photo Studio Ultimate 2018 Guide for Beginners
ACDSee Photo Studio Ultimate 2018 was released recently and it has a lot of options included in a single software program. It offers a combination of features covered by the likes of Lightroom, Bridge,...
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How to Make a Composite Wine Bottle Image using Photoshop Layers
A wine bottle is always a tricky subject to photograph. The highly reflective nature of the glass makes it hard to use frontal lighting, while backlighting will not reach the label. In short, the...
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