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Sensor cleaning: The ultimate guide

In my previous article, I talked about cleaning your lenses and your camera. It’s time to tackle a bigger, more complex subject: cleaning your sensor! If you shoot a lot, and especially if you shoot mirrorless, you definitely need to clean your sensor. If you have never done it, it

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Weekly Wrap-Up: December 23-29, 2018

The Weekly Wrap-up compiles interesting articles published this week on Photofocus. This week we talked about getting started with your new camera, photographing Christmas morning, macro photography tips, sharpening using Perfectly Clear Complete and more! We hope you have a great start to the new year.

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Free Luminar 3 update available now

Skylum has released an update for Luminar 3 for both Mac and Windows. Free update contains Mac Stability improvements Fixed 20+ crash issues Fixed an issue with folder destination of the catalog Fixed crashing on quit Windows Stability improvements 40+ crash issues fixed Fixed an issue with folder destination of

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Working with folders in Luminar 3

Luminar 3: Working with folders

Luminar 3, also known as Luminar with libraries is the long-awaited starting point of Skylum adding digital asset management — DAM — to its standalone image processing/editing software. Adding photos to the library Before using the library, photos have to be added to the library. Open is the first button

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Photographer of the Day: Joe

Category: Snow Photographer: Joe Photo: “Soldiers in the Fog” There’s something very powerful about this photograph. The snowy mountains and trees, encompassed by a dense fog, just make for a very surreal capture. The black and white treatment on this is perfect. The title of this image has me thinking

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Quick Tip: Create a new copyright preset every year

It’s a good idea to create a new copyright preset at the end of each year — but don’t just overwrite the previous year’s preset. Keeping all year’s presets will give you the option to go back in time and add a previous year’s copyright information to images. Want to

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Photographer of the Day: Paul Munford

Category: Street Photographer: Paul Munford Photo: “Strollers” You know I love a good double take. No pun intended, but look at this! I mean really look. Is it a double exposure? Did he take this through a window? Whichever the case may be I tip my hat to you Paul,

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Mastering sharpness with Perfectly Clear

Since I started using Perfectly Clear a couple years ago, there’s been one feature that’s continually been my go-to, no matter what the subject is that I’m photographing. Sharpness. The sharpness tools in Perfectly Clear are the most accurate and precise I’ve ever used, and it’s something I apply to

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Photographer of the Day: Matt Cuda

Category: Outdoor Photographer: Matt Cuda Photo: “Great Blue Heron” Wow! What a moment! Whenever I see a great blue heron I can’t help thinking that I’m looking at a prehistoric creature, and they never fail to stop me in my tracks. The elegant pose being struck by this bird pairs

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Fixing images with Accent AI in Luminar 3

Luminar 3’s Accent AI is a great filter to explore with any of your photographs. It can be especially helpful with photographs where you have underexposed or overexposed them or have some other problems with them. Maybe you have a sky that is too bright so you lose detail in the sky

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