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EyeEm and Skylum team up for photography scholarship

Premium stock provider EyeEm and Skylum, makers of Luminar and Aurora HDR, have teamed up to offer a photography scholarship. Ten talented photographers will be selected to share their editing style in a special edition EyeEm Creators preset pack on the Skylum Marketplace. The chosen photographers will also receive $1000

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Perfectly Clear update brings better sharpening, faster processing

Perfectly Clear has released updates to its Free, Complete and Essentials software that increases the quality of your images. The 3.6.2 update brings an improved sharpening algorithm, allowing you to have better control over the sharpness that’s applied to your images. Parent company Athentech described the change as being “both

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Fixing your white balance: The ultimate solution

As I kept on playing with the Illuminati instruments incident and color light meter I’d been given a few weeks ago, I discovered that I love putting the color meter to the test. I am always in situations where colors in my camera can get a little crazy – whether

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Photographer of the Day: Pamela Aminou

Category: Outdoor Photographer: Pamela Aminou Photo: “Nature at its best” Excellent use of a long exposure to convey the mood of this scene, and the B&W conversion pulls it all together. The framing and arrangement of the posts in the foreground relative to the structure in the background gives the

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Enthusiast’s Guide: Camera settings for time-lapse photography

Photofocus features a series on multi-shot photography excerpted from Rocky Nook’s  “The Enthusiast’s Guide to Multi-Shot Techniques” by Alan Hess Camera settings for time-lapse photography As with any other type of photography, before you shoot images for a time-lapse, you need to determine which exposure, focus, and file type settings to

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A glimpse into ACDSee’s new Color EQ Contrast tool

I recently got the chance to check out the new ACDSee Photo Studio Ultimate 2019, which features a wide array of upgrades over the previous version. One of those is with the program’s Color EQ pane. Being used to Adobe Lightroom, adjusting things like Saturation, Brightness and Hue were all

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First Look: Lume Cube AIR

The new Lume Cube AIR is even more compact than the original and with a longer battery life. It has a powerful magnet on the back for mounting to any ferrous surface and it includes two diffusions domes (one white and one for tungsten lights (CTO)). You can control all

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Photofocus Photographer of the Day is KBT Images with "Kristy Louise"

Photographer of the Day: KBT Images

Category: Beauty Photographer: KBT Images Photo: “Kristy Louise” High wire act or in this case, dangling from chains features aerial artist, Kristy Louise, shrouded in smoke in full flight. The photograph features her flexibility as well as the “this-is-what-I-do-everyday” expression that tells the view it’s no big deal. The beauty

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Quick Tip: Blurry viewfinder? Adjust your diopter

If you consistently see a blurry viewfinder on your camera, but your images come back clear when you edit them, there’s one simple solution — adjust the wheel next to your viewfinder, called the diopter. This lets you customize the sharpness of what you see to your liking, making them

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