Many image editors offer a button "Auto" to quickly adjust your photographs, but most of them generally fail and grossly misadjust the image. The latest version of Lightroom does a pretty good job, but I want to introduce a new piece of software in case you have not heard about it. Automated image … [Read more...]
What Is A Commissioned Project?
About a week ago I wrote a post, What Is A Project, which focused mainly on personal projects. But, I have had other kinds, commissioned projects by clients. We need to treat them quite differently from personal projects. Instead of having an idea and exploring whether it may work, in commissioned … [Read more...]
Infrared Channel Swapping in Lightroom
Lightroom has had some weaknesses when it came to processing infrared images like channel swap and white balance. The primary problem has been and continues to be the range of white balance options not being wide enough into the blue end of the slider. That has had a fix for quite some time which I … [Read more...]
Add Title and Caption Metadata to JPEG Files
Embedded metadata in image files is not limited to EXIF recorded by the camera. You can, and more often than you think, you should embed simple information like your name, copyright notice, the title of the image and the caption. Depending on the operating system and the photo editing software you … [Read more...]
Your Display Profile May Be Wrong
How is that for a bold statement! But it may very well be true, even if you do it regularly on schedule. Display calibration and profiling is a must for all digital photographers. There is no escaping that if you want to produce an accurate representation of your work not only on your monitor but on … [Read more...]
Free Photoshop Course
Adobe Photoshop has been around for decades and has become an indispensable tool for photographers and other content creators. It offers an extremely rich feature set which can be an obstacle to learning the critical parts. Now, you have an opportunity to take a 13-hours of Photoshop course … [Read more...]
Haze – Dehaze 2
In the previous installment of this two-part post, I explained how you may attempt to reduce or remove the haze in your photograph using a simple Photoshop tool, Layer Blend Modes. In this second part, I will show a more flexible, albeit slightly more complex process to deal with unwanted haze in a … [Read more...]
Haze – Dehaze 1
Since Adobe Lightroom 6 CC introduced the "Dehaze" slider, there is a new dehaze-craze. The slider has gained the status of Merlin's wand to cure many ailments. Like all the other adjustment tools, "it is a tool" and not a particularly new one. A process that I will outline in this two-part post and … [Read more...]
Quad HD (QHD) Displays and Photoshop Follow Up
A while back, I wrote a post that explained how to make Photoshop CS6 or below to honor the changed screen size elements. Since then I have discovered a critical setting, this is to update the earlier post. On high-resolution laptop, and even some desktop displays Photoshop CS6, and even some … [Read more...]
Your Photo Editing Workspace
During some of my presentations, I get asked about the work environment for editing digital photographs. I also get individual inquiries about the subject. In this post, I will address those questions with some workspace examples including my own. Vision, the perception of luminance and color are … [Read more...]