• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Home
  • News
  • Reviews
  • Downloads
    • Adobe Photography Plans
    • Capture One
    • DxO PhotoLab
    • DxO Nik Collection
    • Exposure X
    • ON1 Photo RAW
    • Skylum Luminar
    • Aurora HDR
  • Editing A-Z
  • About

Life after Photoshop

  • Lightroom
  • Capture One
  • DxO PhotoLab
  • Nik Collection
  • Exposure X
  • ON1 Photo RAW
  • Aurora HDR

Editing A-Z

Photo retouching: how it works, tools and tactics

September 13, 2020 by Rod Lawton

Photo retouching is one of a handful of basic and necessary adjustments for photos that photographers will rely on repeatedly to correct flaws or faults ahead of any creative adjustments or ‘looks’.

Filed Under: Editing A-Z, Featured, General

Perspective correction explained

September 13, 2020 by Rod Lawton

Perspective correction is not necessary for most photos, but there are times when it will make the difference between an image that looks professional and one that just looks amateurish.

Filed Under: Editing A-Z, Featured, General Tagged With: Perspective correction

Cropping and straightening photos

September 12, 2020 by Rod Lawton

Very often your photo editing software will be able to straighten and crop images at the same time, but there are still times you might want to treat them as two separate tasks.

Filed Under: Editing A-Z, General Tagged With: Cropping, Straighten

HSL color editing and how it works

August 30, 2020 by Rod Lawton

You’re probably used to digital images being in the RGB mode, where the full range of colors is generated with red, green and blue color ‘channels’. But most photo editing programs offer a color editing mode based around the HSL (Hue, Saturation, Lightness) color model, and this is where it gets really interesting.

Filed Under: Editing A-Z, Featured, General Tagged With: Color adjustment, HSL adjustments

Cloud storage for photographers: Can you access all your photos everywhere?

August 7, 2020 by Rod Lawton

Sharing our portfolio online is easy, and there are plenty of file sharing sites to make our photos accessible to you and others online. But if you want to edit and organise your photos on any device, anywhere, the choice is much narrower. Of course, you could just get an old-school portable drive.

Filed Under: Editing A-Z, Featured, General Tagged With: Apple Photos, Cloud storage, Dropbox, Lightroom CC, ON1 Photo RAW, SmugMug

Noise and noise reduction

June 9, 2020 by Life after Photoshop

Noise is the digital equivalent of grain in film. It’s random electrical signals captured by the photosites on the camera sensor, and usually this background noise level is so low compared to the brightness of the captured picture itself that you just don’t notice it.

Filed Under: Editing A-Z, Featured, General Tagged With: Color noise, Grain, ISO, Luminance (contrast) noise, Noise, Noise reduction, RAW processing, Sensor size, Signal to noise ratio

White balance and how it works

June 7, 2020 by Life after Photoshop

White balance is an adjustment to correct and neutralise colors captured with different light sources. The color of light can vary considerably depending on the time of day and whether you’re shooting in natural light or under artificial light.

Filed Under: Editing A-Z, Featured, General Tagged With: Auto white balance, Color cast, Color temperature, Golden hour, JPEG vs RAW, Temperature (white balance), Tint (white balance), White balance, White balance presets

Video basics: resolution and frame rate

June 3, 2020 by Life after Photoshop

Video jargon can quickly get complicated. But the basics of video are comparatively simple and easily learned, and the rest can follow from that.

Filed Under: Editing A-Z, General Tagged With: 4K UHD, 4K video, Aspect ratio, C4K video, Frame rate, Full HD, HD video, Slow motion, Timelapse, Video

Dynamic range and exposure

June 1, 2020 by Life after Photoshop

Dynamic range is the camera sensor’s ability to capture detail in very bright and very dark parts of a scene. Cameras (or sensors) with a low dynamic range record dark shadows as a solid black or bright highlights as a featureless white.

Filed Under: Editing A-Z, Featured, General Tagged With: Dynamic range, Exposure latitude, Exposure value (EV), HDR, Histogram, JPEG vs RAW, RAW file

Picture styles and film simulation with digital cameras

May 30, 2020 by Life after Photoshop

Digital cameras typically offer a range of ‘picture styles’ to suit different subjects or different tastes in color rendition. Canon calls these Picture Styles, Nikon calls them Picture Controls and other camera makers have their own names.

Filed Under: Editing A-Z, Featured, General Tagged With: ACROS (Fujifilm), Analog, Astia, Black and white, Grain, JPEG vs RAW, Picture Control/Style, Provia, Velvia

  • Go to page 1
  • Go to page 2
  • Go to Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Photo editing A-Z

Life after Photoshop’s Photo-editing A-Z

Reviews

The best image-editing software: what to look for, where to find out more

November 2, 2020

DxO PhotoLab 4 review

November 2, 2020

Exposure X6 review

October 9, 2020

More reviews

  • Lightroom CC review (2020)
  • Lightroom Classic review
  • DxO PhotoLab vs Lightroom vs Capture One – which is best for RAW files?
  • Best image cataloguing software: tools to keep your images organised
  • Skylum Luminar 4.3 review
  • ON1 Photo RAW 2020.5 review
  • ON1 360 review
  • Analog Efex Pro 2 review
  • Perspective Efex review
  • DxO Nik Collection 3 review
  • Exposure X5 review
  • Capture One 20 review

Contact

Email lifeafterphotoshop@gmail.com

Copyright © 2021 · News Pro on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in

We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it.OK