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Featured posts

Welcome to the Life after Photoshop archive of 'Featured' posts. These are favourite articles or tutorials that appear in the carousel at the top of the home page.

DxO PureRAW 3 review

March 15, 2023 by Rod Lawton

Rating: 4.5 stars PureRAW 3 only does one job, but it does it extremely well. It takes your RAW files and applies DxO’s own lens corrections and, optionally, its DeepPRIME noise reduction process to produce images which are sharper, smoother and straighter. It can make average cameras and lenses look twice as good and extends your camera’s usable ISO range by up to 2.5 stops. These aren’t empty claims – this is what it does.

Filed Under: Featured, PureRAW, ReviewsTagged With: DeepPRIME (DxO), DxO, Lens corrections, Noise reduction, PhotoLab (DxO), PureRAW

ON1 launches ON1 Sky Swap AI as a standalone and plug-in for $29.99

March 9, 2023 by Rod Lawton

ON1 Sky Swap AI

Sky Swap AI is one of the big features in ON1 Photo RAW 2023, but ON1 has now split it out to also offer it as a standalone program and plug-in. You can open ON1 Sky Swap AI as an app, or launch it from Capture One, Affinity Photo, Corel Paintshop Pro, Apple Photos, Photoshop or Lightroom Classic.

Filed Under: Featured, News, ON1 Photo RAWTagged With: ON1 Photo RAW, Sky replacement

DxO PhotoLab vs Lightroom Classic – using PhotoLab for cataloguing

February 28, 2023 by Rod Lawton

That’s an interesting question. PhotoLab 6 offers better RAW processing and noise reduction than Lightroom and more extensive local adjustment tools, but with the improvements to the PhotoLibrary in PhotoLab 6, can it also do the same job as an image cataloguing tool?

Filed Under: Featured, PhotoLab, WorkflowTagged With: Album, Browser (photos), Cataloguing software, Collection, Lightroom Classic (Adobe), PhotoLab (DxO)

Swapping from Lightroom Classic to Lightroom: 6 things you need to know!

February 24, 2023 by Rod Lawton

The web version of Adobe Lightroom (now just called ‘Lightroom’ by Adobe), is a very compelling tool for photographers who want to view, edit and share their images across a range of different devices, and to have all their images available everywhere. But before you take the plunge and swap to Adobe’s cloud-based version of Lightroom, there are six things you need to be aware of to avoid nasty surprises.

Filed Under: Featured, Lightroom, ListiclesTagged With: Cloud storage, Creative Cloud (Adobe), Lightroom (Adobe), Lightroom Classic (Adobe), Photography Plan (Adobe)

New ON1 Photo RAW 2023.1 healing, copying and moving tools rated

February 22, 2023 by Rod Lawton

With the ON1 Photo RAW 2023.1 update, the Healing Brush tool gets a major upgrade. You could already move the source area around to find the best match, but now you can transform the repair to flip it, scale it up or down or rotate it to better match the area you’re repairing.

Filed Under: Featured, ON1 Photo RAW, TutorialsTagged With: Cloning, Healing brush, ON1 Photo RAW, Retouching

Why SHOULDN’T you edit JPEGs?

February 20, 2023 by Rod Lawton

For many the answer will be obvious. If you want to do any serious editing later, then shooting RAW is a must, right? Normally I’d say yes, but here’s an instance where I decided to work from the JPEG rather than a RAW file, and I’ll explain why.

Filed Under: Featured, Ideas, OpinionTagged With: Black and white, Dynamic range, Grain, JPEG vs RAW, Picture control/style

ON1 Photo RAW 2023.1 brings new A and B sky replacement models

February 16, 2023 by Rod Lawton

The ON1 Photo RAW 2023.1 update is free to existing users and might just convince users of older versions that it’s time to upgrade. It also makes this software’s AI credentials that little bit more convincing for anyone weighing up ON1’s do-it-all photo editor against Skylum Luminar Neo.

Filed Under: Featured, ON1 Photo RAW, TutorialsTagged With: ON1 Photo RAW, Sky replacement

Referenced vs managed files in cataloguing software: what’s the difference?

February 14, 2023 by Rod Lawton

Well, there’s quite a lot, as it happens, and it affects the way you store, access and organize your photos

Filed Under: Capture One, Featured, General, Lightroom, WorkflowTagged With: Capture One, Lightroom (Adobe), Lightroom Classic (Adobe), Managed images, Referenced images

How to go from color to moody mono in Lightroom

February 9, 2023 by Rod Lawton

This under-the-pier shot is a classic composition in black and white – you’ve probably seen a lot like it already – but the color original looks very ordinary indeed. So here’s a step-by-step guide to how I transformed it into a powerful graphic image in Lightroom.

Filed Under: Featured, Lightroom, TutorialsTagged With: Adjustment brush, AI mask, Black and white, Clarity, Cropping, Dehaze, Lightroom (Adobe), Masks, Profiles, Radial mask, Straighten

DxO Photolab 6.3 update brings improved color management and profile handling

February 8, 2023 by Rod Lawton

Image credit: Kelvin Chan

The improvements in PhotoLab 6.3 mainly target the Elite edition, with an extension to the soft proofing tools that can no incorporate on-screen simulations of papers and inks, to allow even more accurate color visualization and control over printed output.

Filed Under: Featured, News, PhotoLabTagged With: Color management, DxO, PhotoLab (DxO), Working space

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