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Selections and masks: what do they do, what’s the difference?

April 22, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

Selections and masks are subtly different, and the ‘parametric’ masks in non-destructive editors give more flexibility than ever.

Filed Under: Editing A-Z, Featured

Cataloguing software explained

March 29, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

Cataloguing software can organize your entire photo collection, but how does it work and what do you look for?

Filed Under: Editing A-Z, Featured, General

Image metadata explained

March 19, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

Metadata is image information stored alongside or within a photo. You don’t see it in the image, but it can be read by different software applications to help filter, sort, search or identify images.

Filed Under: Editing A-Z, General

Black and white photography basics

March 15, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

Black and white photography is as popular now as ever. Here are some key things to know about black and white photography with digital cameras, and how they change the way you see, shoot and edit black and white.

Filed Under: Editing A-Z, Featured, General

Local adjustments explained

March 10, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

Local adjustments

‘Local adjustments’ is a bit of a catch-all term. It means picking out an area of an image for adjustment while leaving the rest unchanged. So how do local adjustments work and which software does them best?

Filed Under: Editing A-Z, Featured, General

Plug ins and external editors explained

March 8, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

Plug ins and external editors are part of most photographers’ workflows. But how do they work and what’s the difference?

Filed Under: Editing A-Z, Featured, General

Shadows, midtones and highlights explained

March 5, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

Shadows, midtones and highlights explained

Photographers often use the terms ‘shadows’, ‘midtones’ and ‘highlights’ as if their meaning is obvious. Perhaps it is, but it still probably deserves a little explanation.

Filed Under: Editing A-Z, Featured

Layers explained: what they do and how to use them

February 27, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

Layers explained

Layers are a central part of many photo editing processes, but they come in a number of different types, notably image layers, adjustment layers, type layers and vector layers.

Filed Under: Editing A-Z, Featured, General, Sidebar

RAW files explained

February 24, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

Many photographers prefer to work with RAW files – but what are they, how do you work with them, and why are they so much better than regular in-camera JPEGs?

Filed Under: Editing A-Z, Featured, General

Subscriptions vs single fee software: the pros and cons

February 25, 2021 by Life after Photoshop

Photo by freestocks on Unsplash

Generally, those who object to subscription software do so on principle while those who embrace it do it out of practicality. That’s two different sets of reasons.

Filed Under: Capture One, Editing A-Z, Featured, General, Lightroom, ON1 Photo RAW, Photoshop

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