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There may be more in your RAW files than you think! See this in Capture One

August 24, 2020 by Rod Lawton

You might assume your RAW processing software shows you everything captured by the camera, but that’s not always the case. Where the camera is applying digital lens corrections, there may be more ‘image’ outside the regular image area that you wouldn’t normally see.

Filed Under: Capture One, Featured, TutorialsTagged With: Cropping, RAW processing

DxO PhotoLab vs Lightroom vs Capture One – which is best for RAW files?

August 2, 2020 by Rod Lawton

Which is best for processing RAW files, DxO PhotoLab, Lightroom or Capture One? Here’s a set of eight image comparisons that aims to find out.

Filed Under: Capture One, Featured, Lightroom, PhotoLab, ReviewsTagged With: Artefact/artifact, Capture One, Cloud storage, DeepPRIME (DxO), Dynamic range, Highlight recovery, Lens corrections, Lightroom (Adobe), Lightroom Classic (Adobe), Local adjustments, Perspective correction, PhotoLab (DxO), RAW processing, Shadow recovery, Sharpening, White balance

HSL (Hue, Saturation, Lightness) adjustments and what they can do

July 25, 2020 by Rod Lawton

Global HSL adjustments aren’t very useful. If you shift the global hue of an image it quickly looks wrong. The real strength of the HSL system is the way it lets you separate and edit individual colors.

Filed Under: Capture One, Featured, General, TutorialsTagged With: Color adjustment, HSL adjustments

Could Capture One be the new Aperture? The unexpected joys of managed catalogs

July 9, 2020 by Rod Lawton

Could Capture One be the new Aperture? Like Aperture, it can create fully managed catalogs, which means all your images are stored within a single, monolithic catalog file. It sounds like madness… but is it?

Filed Under: Capture One, FeaturedTagged With: Aperture (Apple), Backups, Capture One, Cataloguing software, Culling, Referenced images

Photo editing software downloads: links to trial versions listed here

July 7, 2020 by Rod Lawton

Almost all the software applications reviewed and described on Life after Photoshop are available as a free trial, and here are the links. I always recommend using the trial version before making your mind up.

Filed Under: Aurora HDR, Capture One, Exposure X, Featured, Lightroom, Luminar, Nik Collection, ON1 Photo RAW, PhotoLab

5 quick masking tips to save time and get better results

June 25, 2020 by Rod Lawton

Masking complex outlines can be a slow and fiddly business, but there are tools to help, and once you’ve got your mask, there’s a lot you can do with it.

Filed Under: Capture One, Featured, General, Listicles, TutorialsTagged With: Masks

Lightroom alternatives: which is best?

June 23, 2020 by Rod Lawton

Lightroom alternatives

Lightroom is probably the automatic go-to program for enthusiasts and experts looking for an all-in-one photo organising and editing program, but it’s not necessarily the best and it’s not popular with everyone, so many will be looking for Lightroom alternatives.

Filed Under: Capture One, Exposure X, Lightroom, Luminar, ON1 Photo RAW

Moody mono with a Leica M10 Monochrom and Capture One

March 29, 2020 by Life after Photoshop

I met my donkey friend while I was out testing a Leica M10 Monochrom and 28mm f/2 Summicron lens. For those who don’t know, this is a rangefinder camera with manual focusing, so getting my friend’s eye sharp was a special challenge as he was getting restless because I didn’t have any carrots. The Leica […]

Filed Under: Capture One, Featured, TutorialsTagged With: Black and white, Curves, Dodging and burning, Vignette

Histograms aren’t sacred: shadows and highlights CAN be clipped

September 5, 2019 by Rod Lawton

Histograms just show you what’s happening in your images, they’re not there to tell you what to do. But there’s an old adage from the days of film photography that you should still be able to see some detail in the darkest and brightest parts of your pictures, and that’s carried through into digital photography. […]

Filed Under: Capture One, FeaturedTagged With: Histogram, Levels

Montacute House in moody monochrome with split toning

August 2, 2019 by Life after Photoshop

What is the mood you’re trying to capture? For his image of an Elizabethan country house, I wanted and sombre and forbidding look, and this required black and white, some dodging and burning and subtle toning.

Filed Under: Capture One, Featured, TutorialsTagged With: Black and white, Dodging and burning, LUTs, Split toning

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