Using colour profiles in Lightroom
By applying the right colour profile to your photo, you can get a much more nuanced version than through simple editing.
Read moreAdobe Photoshop Lightroom is a photo-processing and image-organizing piece of computer software developed by Adobe Systems for Windows and Mac OS X. It allows the viewing, organization and cataloguing of a large number of digital images, and its editing capability is non-destructive. Aside from its great functionality, I also recommend it because it’s considerably less expensive to buy than the full version of Adobe Photoshop.
By applying the right colour profile to your photo, you can get a much more nuanced version than through simple editing.
Read moreAdobe has, at last, added the possibility to add custom presets in the mobile version of Lightroom.
Watch videoGreat, simple tips for getting better results from Adobe Lightroom.
Watch videoCooing over the lovely new panorama stitching function in Adobe Lightroom 6.
Watch videoWhere my love for the square image format comes from, and how it is achieved in the Fujifilm X-T1 digital camera.
Read moreUsing an excessive amount of noise reduction in Lightroom produces a lovely, subtle, painterly effect.
Read moreWhen digital photography went mainstream, it was the death knell to Kodachrome, even devout Kodachrome enthusiasts migrated from the venerable film to their DSLRs, providing the photographer a level of control that would have been unimaginable with good old Kodachrome. Kodachrome was a victim of advancement, and as the years pass I expect to see […]
Read moreAdobe Lightroom is a boon to the photographer. With the introduction of intelligent repair tools, it has now entirely replaced Photoshop for me, and I can not only tweak photos but also re-edit them to quite a level of detail. One of the great features of Lightroom is the ability to save a group of […]
Read moreThere’s a lot of criticism in the world of photography. Not just the personal opinion of someone who likes or dislikes your photo, but also more general criticism on the subject of such things as originality and inspiration, equipment, or what makes a “photograph” as opposed to an creative image. The biggest argument used to […]
Read moreYou may recall that I wrote about HDR technique some time ago, and a technique I employed at a wedding last weekend reminded me to write about the alternative: Tone Mapping and Zone System exposure.
View galleryAn example of an image processed using a simple preset available through the Lightroom Presets website.
Read moreAfter seeing a few shots around the internet in a certain darkened, de-saturated style, I asked around to see if anyone was familiar with the post-processing technique which is used to create it.
Read moreThis is one of those shots which just seems to work, despite the fact that it came about purely by accident. Well, mabye not by accident, but not in a planned way. It was taken in the bathroom of a conference centre near Zurich at the end of October, when I was shooting the conference […]
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