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How to Boost your Lightroom Performance and Improve Speed
Are you running out of space on your hard drive? If you’re both a prolific photographer and a Lightroom user the answer may be yes. A hard drive that’s close to being full is bad news because it slows...
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How to Create a Double Exposure Effect Using Photoshop
What is a double exposure effect? In days of yore, back when DSLR cameras were SLR, a roll of film was inserted in the back of your camera to give you 24 or 36 exposures. A double exposure was created...
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4 Tips for Post-Processing Images on the Road
In this article I will share some of my tips for post-processing your images on the road or while traveling. That way you can share images and keep up on social media. Let’s see why that’s important....
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How to do Night Photography With No Tripod – and a Little Photoshop Help
In this article I am going to show you how you can do amazing night photography with no tripod and not too much grain. In this photo I was on the Academia Bridge in Venice, the place to be to catch the...
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How to Use Your Camera’s Color Profiles in Lightroom
Your camera has several color profiles that you can enable to change the look of your photos. On most cameras, these have names like Standard, Portrait, and Landscape. The names are fairly...
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Photo Editing Alternative – An Overview of ACDSee Ultimate 10
As more and more people take up digital photography and want to get started editing, many are asking the question, are Adobe’s Lightroom and Photoshop my only options? At ACD Systems, they have...
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How to Use the Folders Panel in Lightroom
The web is full of articles about Lightroom’s Develop Module. It’s the flash part of Lightroom, making our images look so much better. It truly is the heart of Lightroom, but if you can’t find images...
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How to Remove People from Your Photos Using Photoshop
The worst part about taking photos of monuments and city streets is that you always get cars and people blocking the architecture behind them. It can be very distractive, and they take away from the...
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Quick and Dirty Method of Using the Photoshop Spot Healing Brush Tool
Let’s say you use Lightroom and you’ve tried and tried to get rid of those distracting spots using Lightroom’s Spot Removal Tool but no matter how you set it – using Clone or Heal or changing the...
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Why I Use ACDSee Versus Adobe Bridge for Culling Images and More
Believe me, I have tried. Over the years, I have tried to wean myself off ACDSee. But, like Al Pacino in The Godfather, “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!”. ACDSee does what I want...
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How to Use Auto Mask in Lightroom to Make Your Photos Shine
Lightroom is a fantastic tool for organizing, editing, sharing, and even printing photos and is an essential tool in the workflow of many photographers today. Unfortunately, it sometimes gets a bad rap...
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How to Make Creative Lightroom Develop Presets for Portraits
It’s natural for portrait photographers to take lots of photos during a shoot. Therefore, it’s also helpful to have a system in Lightroom that allows you to save time processing your portraits. The...
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Good, Better, and Best Noise Reduction Techniques
When it comes to noise reduction, you always have two goals. First, obviously, you want to get rid of any digital noise in your picture. But secondly, you want to preserve detail. These often work...
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How to Take Control of Contrast Using Curves and Levels in Photoshop
Have you ever found your photos flat? The colors are muted and it just looks dull? That’s because it lacks contrast. Sometimes regardless of your best exposure skills, the conditions are not suited to...
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How to Easily Add a New Element to Your Image Using Photoshop
This is an article for beginners in Photoshop. You will learn how to simply add an element to your photo and transform a daylight image into a nighttime one. Open your selected images in Photoshop...
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Tips for the Creative Use of Grain in Lightroom
Nobody likes a grainy photo, right? The majority of the time we want less graininess. In the digital world, we see grain as the enemy. But is it really? I’ll tell you now that grain isn’t always bad....
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How to Create an Orton Effect Using Photoshop
Even if you have never heard of the Orton Effect before I can virtually guarantee you’ve seen this type of photograph at some point in the past. The Orton Effect is a carry over technique from the...
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Non-Technical Guide to Buying a Computer for Photographers
In this age of digital photography (and other imagery) it is pretty much necessary to interface with your camera via a computer. It will store your image files, allow you to edit them, and upload to...
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Four Ways to Use Snapshots in Lightroom
What’s Lightroom’s most underrated feature? If you ask five different photographers you’ll probably get at least six answers. But for me, it’s Snapshots. Unused and unloved – that was the fate of...
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Overview of Photo Studio Ultimate 2018 for Windows by ACDSee
ACDSee has released Photo Studio Ultimate 2018 for Windows and is the new update for their photo editing software. They have given it a new name, introduced new features, and made improvements to...
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