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Non-destructive editing and how it works

May 28, 2020 by Life after Photoshop

Traditional photo editing is ‘destructive’. That means every adjustment you make permanently changes the pixels in the photo and there’s no way back unless you’ve saved a copy of the original and you’re willing to start again. ‘Non-destructive’ editing is fully reversible. You can go back and undo or redo all of your editing work at any point in the future. Naturally, there’s a catch

Filed Under: Editing A-Z, Featured, General Tagged With: Adjustment layer, Cataloguing software, Export, History, Metadata, Non-destructive editing, Presets, RAW processing, Sidecar file, Snapshot (editing), Variants (Capture One Pro), Virtual Copy (Lightroom)

Lens aberrations and what you can do about them

May 26, 2020 by Life after Photoshop

Aberrations, or optical imperfections, exist because no lens is optically perfect. Almost all lenses show aberrations from the ‘perfect’ image.

Filed Under: Editing A-Z, Featured, General Tagged With: Aberrations, Axial chromatic aberration, Barrel distortion, Chromatic aberration, Color fringing, Corner shading, Diffraction, Distortion, Lateral chromatic aberration, Lens corrections, Lens profile, Pincushion distortion, Vignetting

Color spaces, profiles and color management explained

May 23, 2020 by Life after Photoshop

The whole topic of color management can get pretty dry and technical, but stick with it because there’s information here that’s useful and puts lots of other things in context.

Filed Under: Editing A-Z, General Tagged With: Adobe RGB, Camera calibration, CMYK, Color management, Color model, Color space, Gamut, Lab mode, Monitor calibration, Printer profile, Profiles, RGB, sRGB, Working space

Aspect ratios and why you need to know about them

May 22, 2020 by Life after Photoshop

The aspect ratio of an image is the ratio of its width to its height. The larger the ratio, the ‘wider’ the image; the smaller the ratio, the ‘squarer’ the image.

Filed Under: Editing A-Z, General Tagged With: 16:9, 1:1 ratio, 3:2 ratio, 4:3 ratio, 4K video, Aspect ratio, C4K video, Cropping, HD video, Print sizes, Sensor size

Bits and bit depth explained

May 19, 2020 by Life after Photoshop

Bits and bit depth

Bit depth is an important concept in digital imaging if you want the best possible image quality and if you intend to manipulate images heavily.

Filed Under: Editing A-Z, Featured, General Tagged With: 14-bit RAW, 16-bit image, 8-bit image, Bits and bit depth, Dynamic range, HDR, JPEG vs RAW, TIFF format

Levels vs curves vs luma curves: ways to adjust contrast in photos

July 26, 2019 by Life after Photoshop

Levels and curves can both be used to adjust the contrast in photos, but how are they different, which should you use and is one better than the other?

Filed Under: Capture One, Editing A-Z, Featured, General, Tutorials Tagged With: Curves, Histogram, Levels

How LUTs work in photo-editing

April 29, 2019 by Rod Lawton

How LUTs work

LUTs are the new big thing in photo editing software, but what are they, how do you use them and why do they matter?

Filed Under: Editing A-Z, General Tagged With: LUTs

How HDR works

January 4, 2019 by Life after Photoshop

How HDR works

HDR is a technique for photographing extra high contrast scenes, but how does it work and do you really need to shoot several exposures?

Filed Under: Editing A-Z, General

Split toning explained

January 3, 2019 by Life after Photoshop

Split toning

Split toning can give your black and white photos depth and atmosphere and can also be used for traditional single-tone effects.

Filed Under: Editing A-Z, General Tagged With: Split toning

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