How to Pop Color Selectively Using Channel Mixers and Layer Masks in Photoshop
By Jodi Friedman of MCP Actions: Photoshop Actions and Training There are literally dozens of ways to saturate your colors in Photoshop. For this post I am going to focus on one way to pop colors using “Channel Mixer” adjustment layers. To start with, locate an image that could benefit from more vibrant color, overall or in [...]
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How to Pop Color Selectively Using Channel Mixers and Layer Masks in Photoshop
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The Dave Hill Look in Lightroom
Dave Hill is a genius. Period. I could look at his images all day long and his behind the scenes videos are strangely addictive. Naturally, thousands want to create his hyper-real, painterly, utterly hypnotising look on their images. The first observation one can make about his method is the painstaking attention to lighting during the shoot. [...]
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Using Aperture 3’s Places
A Guest Post by Chris Folsom. One of the great new features of Aperture 3 (get an upgrade from previous versions here) is the ability to add location data to photos and then display those photos on a map based on where they were taken. While similar features were previously available from plug-ins and add-ons, [...]
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Warning: 10 Deadly Post Processing Sins
First of all, I have to thank Darren, and this wonderful DPS community for supporting our family through the illness and death of our son. We are deeply and profoundly grateful to each of you. THANK YOU. Not really a way to segue from that. I won’t try. :) This post is all [...]
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Arrange Files Your Way in Lightroom
Often when you’re working in Lightroom you will want the images to be sorted in the order that you want to see them, not in as order such as capture date which is one of the Lightroom sort options. You may want to do this when assembling images for a slide show or for printing, [...]
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Assemble HDR sequences QTPFSGUI
In the world of HDR imagery, Photomatix is the leading application. However, if you only occasionally need to assemble an HDR sequence, you can save your pennies and use the open source application, qtpfsgui. In this post I’ll show you where to find the application and how to get started using it: If you are starting [...]
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How to Publish Images from Lightroom to Flickr
If you’re a keen photographer, chances are that you publish some of your photos to Flickr for sharing with friends and family. One of the disadvantages of Lightroom 2 is that it does not come with a built in tool for publishing direct to Flickr although this has been addressed in Lightroom 3 which does [...]
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How to Manipulate Colours in Photoshop using Fill Layers
The other day, I was using a book template from The Album Cafe. I wanted to change the background colour scheme and didn’t know where to start but thought I’d try something that popped into my head and it worked a treat! So I wanted to share it with you lovely folks. It can work [...]
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The Future of HDR and its Use within the Camera
A Guest post by Dave Ware from Whalebone Photography. This note is aimed to be a quick discussion on High Dynamic Range and possible future enhancements to improve it. What is High Dynamic Range? High Dynamic Range is a digital processing effect used within photography to combine a number of images of differing exposures to create a consistently [...]
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Creating an HDR-like Image From a Single RAW File in Lightroom
A Guest Post by Pye of SLRLounge.com. Introduction If you have been anywhere near the photography world in the past couple years, I am sure you have heard of HDR by now as there have been countless tutorials floating around on how to create HDR images using 3 bracketed exposures in programs like Photomatix and Photoshop. However [...]
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Creating an HDR-like Image From a Single RAW File in Lightroom
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Batch Processing in Photoshop Elements
Some time ago I wrote a post on batch resizing images in Photoshop and another on resizing in Lightroom. One of our readers wrote to me recently explaining that he is using Photoshop Elements and that the resize feature in Photoshop does not work in Photoshop Elements. He is correct, but there is a way of [...]
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What is the Best File Format to Save Your Photos In? PSD * TIFF * JPEG * GIF * PNG
A Guest Post by Jodi Friedman of MCP Actions:Your shortcut to better photographs. As a photographer you shoot in Raw or Jpeg, or sometimes both. Then you edit. You may start in Lightroom or Adobe Camera Raw, but many photographers will end up in Photoshop doing more detailed editing of your photographs. In time, you come [...]
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What is the Best File Format to Save Your Photos In? PSD * TIFF * JPEG * GIF * PNG
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27 Resources to Open Up a Whole New Photography 2.0 World
A Guest Post by Josh Brown fromInFashionMedia. Ok, so you own a digital camera and you’ve taken more shots then you can count, and you’ve filled up more space on your hard drive than you have free. You say you’re going to organize your files but you never quite get around to it, and you sure as [...]
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