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Photo retouching: how it works, cloning, healing and erasing explained

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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