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Software review: Focus stacking with Helicon Focus

I’m a fan of focus stacking for improved depth of field. Photoshop is a good tool but leaves a little to be desired in the seamless rendering of a stacked set of images. If you are only doing a little focus stack imaging it works fine. Photoshop is great for

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Getting the film look in After Effects with Dehancer

Dehancer is a plugin for film effects and film-like color grading in After Effects. This comprehensive film emulation tool follows the science of analog film making techniques. It builds profiles from real analog samples combined with non-linear image processing and mathematical modeling. With your footage on the timeline, apply the

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Radiant Photos: How can Sky Toning help your photos?

Radiant Photo from Radiant Imaging Labs offers a Sky toning slider. What is Sky Toning? Can it help your photos? What does Radiant Photo do? When you open an image, Radiant Photo analyzes each image and suggests edits that it feels is best for each photo. Rather than applying presets,

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Is processing cheating?

“The camera cannot lie.” When photography was in its infancy, this was often said in magazines and elsewhere. But is it true? And what role does processing take in this? What is purity? There is this almost purist sort of bent among some photographers, where the general belief is that

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Vintage Ford truck, night photo with light painting during the exposure. California.

How to save presets in Radiant Photo in three easy steps

Radiant Photo delivers on the promise of making your image look better with one click while also offering fine-tuning options. Saving your own presets creates an even faster workflow. What is Radiant Photo? Upon opening your image, Radiant Photo analyzes each image and suggests edits that it feels is best

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Adobe is 40

Adobe is 40!

Raise your hand if you’ve been using an Adobe product for 40 years! Seriously, we’d love to know what you used and what products you’re still using. Let us know in the comments below. While you are doing that, we’ll share some history of Adobe, milestones and some tidbits you

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Radiant Photo: Instantly creating rich beautiful colors

Are you interested in creating rich but not oversaturated photos instantly? Radiant Photo can do this beautifully. Read on! What does Radiant Photo do? Radiant Photo states that it was created by photographers for photographers. It’s an easy-to-use editor that runs as stand-alone as well as a plugin. You simply

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Rawsie: RAW to DNG = OMG!

We all know the many benefits of shooting in RAW, but the higher quality and correctability comes at a cost: file size. While storage devices are not as expensive as they used to be, it still adds up for the professional photographer. If only we could get the same quality

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