HDR portrait editing for harsh midday light
Michèle Grenier
Outdoor pictures can be quite a challenge to balance in post. Recover details with this HDR portrait editing for harsh mid-day light
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Selective sharpening in Lightroom
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Tips for restoring scanned slides and negatives
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Lightroom is a Toyota minivan
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Using Aurora HDR with night photography
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At first blush, I am an unusual photographer to write about HDR software. After all, I do night photography, where it typically isn’t used as much. And us night photographers tend to handle wide dynamic range largely by the way
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Bracketing exposure with the Sony a7R Mark III camera
Julie Powell
Just what is exposure bracketing? It’s a feature in many DSLR and mirrorless cameras that allows you to take a group of different exposures for the same image. So why is that helpful? In a landscape situation, if the sky
Adding interest with Adjustment Layers in Aurora HDR
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Looking at the Elvid StudioVision 4K HDMI Monitor with HDR for field and studio work
Kevin Ames
There are times when photographing tethered on location that a larger monitor built for travel is more than handy — it is a necessity. Clients like to see the work they have commissioned on a bigger screen that is distanced
A first look at the ON1 HDR plugin, with Capture One
Bryan Esler
Recently, ON1 announced that its plugin suite — ON1 HDR, ON1 Portrait, ON1 Resize and ON1 Effects — would work with Capture One as native plugins. As someone who occasionally does HDR work, I was excited for the chance to
When to photograph brackets for HDR
Kevin Ames
High dynamic range (HDR) processing opens a whole world of photographic possibilities. There are several outstanding HDR creation tools available today including Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop. The question to answer is “when does one shoot HDR brackets?” The “pro” answer
Selective sharpening in Lightroom
Levi Sim
Sharpening helps your picture have a little more punch and can allow details to pop and draw attention. If you sharpen the entire image, however, you’ll end up with visible details, called artifacts, in places where there aren’t details, like
Tips for restoring scanned slides and negatives
Mark Morrow
If you’ve had the pleasure of converting film slides of days-gone-by to the digital format, you may have experienced that bittersweet feeling of excitement mingled with a tinge of disappointment upon first viewing the dust, debris and fiber-laden results accumulated
Lightroom is a Toyota minivan
Levi Sim
I’ve used every version of Lightroom. I can’t imagine how I could have built a business without it. I spend more time with Lightroom than I do with my wife. I love it. I hate it. Utility Whether you use
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Ken Lee
At first blush, I am an unusual photographer to write about HDR software. After all, I do night photography, where it typically isn’t used as much. And us night photographers tend to handle wide dynamic range largely by the way
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Vanelli
Luminar is my go-to image editing program. but sometimes I need to tone map a single or a set of bracketed images to pull out its dynamic range. This is when I turn to Aurora HDR — software specifically designed
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Julie Powell
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Using HDR Toning in Photoshop to enhance smartphone photos
Andrew Ford
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I edit your photos stuck at home, part one
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I have developed a new personal project called “I edit your photos stuck at home” based on my post-processing workflow … with YOUR images!
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