How to Choose Your Lightroom Export Settings for Printing
If you haven’t yet printed some of your favorite photos, trust me you are missing out on a lot. The joy and pleasure that you get by looking at the prints cannot be matched by the digital copies. This...
View ArticleFixing Your Photos with the Lightroom Spot Removal Tool
Lightroom’s suite of editing tools is not as comprehensive as its big brother Photoshop But the program does offer a host of options for fixing photos that cover most of the corrections you are likely...
View Article6 Essential Steps in any Post-Processing Workflow
We live in a digital age, a time when a post-processing workflow is an increasingly essential aspect of our photography. Cameras produce images with the expectation that they will be altered later,...
View ArticleON1 Photo RAW 2018 – A Beginner’s Guide
When people start photography, or even after they have been doing it for a while, they find a time when they want to start learning how to do some processing on their computer. Then they are faced with...
View ArticleHow to Create Your Own Style by Using LUTs in Photoshop
It is important to have your own style. Everybody says that. It is one of the most important factors to avoid drowning in millions of other photos from other photographers. A style is many things. It...
View Article5 Genuinely Useful Photoshop Actions
I use Lightroom for basic editing and raw conversions, but I still like to tweak my photos in Photoshop. Mostly, that’s just about familiarity. I’m a Photoshop addict. Technically, it makes sense to do...
View ArticleEnter for a Chance to Win One of NINE Photomatix Licenses!
Enter the Photomatix “Spring in HDR” Photography Contest Today! Over the last few years here at dPS, we’ve run very some very popular competitions with our partners to give away some of their great...
View ArticleHow to Reduce Digital Noise in Astrophotography Using Exposure Stacking
Astrophotography has become increasingly popular in recent years, with good reason. There’s something about the night sky, stars, and The Milky Way that are fascinating to us. They remind us of how...
View ArticleThree Ways to Apply Tonal Effects in Photoshop
We are used to thinking about photography in terms of color or black and white, but before we arrived here, though, there were a series of processes that resulted in images being monochrome. In this...
View ArticleHow to Easily Make a LUT in Photoshop
If you’ve ever done any video editing then you’re probably familiar with a little something called “color look-up tables”. These look-up tables are lovingly referred to in the industry as a “LUT”. At...
View ArticleHow to do Creative Editing with Layers in ACDSee Ultimate Photo Studio 2018
In my first article on ACDSee Ultimate Photo Studio 2018, I covered all the elements of the program that a beginner would need to know about. This article covers editing in more detail, starting with...
View ArticleHow to Edit Food Photography Images Using Lightroom
To edit food photography it requires a bit of a different approach than you might take with other types of photography, like portrait or landscape. The objective is to keep the food looking as fresh...
View ArticleTwo Ways to Replace the Sky Using Photoshop
There are many things that you can control when shooting a photograph, but the weather is not one of them! If you have a great landscape or architecture photo but the sky is too dull it will bring down...
View ArticleUnderstanding Creative Profiles in Lightroom Classic CC
In April of 2018, Adobe took a much-anticipated advance in the way it allows users to process their images in Lightroom. Beginning with the version 7.3 release of Lightroom Classic (and ACR 10.3) Adobe...
View ArticleHow to Choose the Right Color Profile For Sharing Images Online
Many people have problems with the color of their photos when they publish them online. There are several reasons why this might be so, but the most common culprits are the color space of the image and...
View ArticleLightroom Tricks: How to Process Video in Lightroom Classic CC
Video? Wait…what? Isn’t this Digital Photography School? Yes, it most certainly is and yes you indeed read the title of this article correctly. I’m about to show you how easy it is to actually process...
View ArticleQuick Beginner’s Guide to Processing RAW Files in Photoshop Adobe Camera Raw
Do you shoot RAW but then open it without processing? When you take a photo in RAW format, regardless of the name each brand gives to it, what you’re doing is saving a bunch of data without processing...
View ArticleEditing Gently: 3 Tips for Processing Realistic Landscape Photos
A well-processed photograph should be just like a good haircut. That’s one of my favorite analogies when it comes to explaining my approach to editing my own photographs. Not only does it confuse...
View ArticleHow to Make Color Adjustments Using Tone Curves in Lightroom
In this article, you’ll learn how to use tone curves in Lightroom to make color adjustments to your images and bring your visions to life. Color and RAW format If you photograph in RAW file format, you...
View ArticleSome Cool Tools For Editing Your Photos Inside ACDSee Photo Studio Ultimate 2018
In this third installment of articles on ACDSee Photo Studio Ultimate 2018, we look at some of the Cool Tools – either new features or ones that are particularly useful. Read my first two articles...
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