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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.

Can you create digital bokeh, and is it as good as the real thing?

May 9, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

If you want the short answer, it’s yes and no. Yes, you can create digital bokeh, and no, it’s not as good as the real thing. You can, however, create a reasonably convincing bokeh ‘look’.

Filed Under: Exposure X, Featured, Tutorials

Adobe Lightroom: what is it, where do you get it, what does it cost?

May 7, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

Adobe Lightroom is not one program but three. You could easily call it an ecosystem. At heart, it’s a tool for both organizing your photos and editing them. So how do you get it, what does it cost, and which version do you need?

Filed Under: Featured, General, Lightroom

ON1 Resize AI 2022 review

May 5, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

Verdict 4.3 stars: ON1 Resize AI 2022 is a tool for upsizing your photos so that they can be viewed or printed larger. It adds more pixels to make a larger, more detailed photo than you had before. There’s no hype or resizing ‘magic’ here, just a very good implementation of the power of AI.

Filed Under: Featured, ON1 Photo RAW, Reviews

Lightroom locks you in, in ways that other programs don’t

May 3, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

Lightroom exists in two versions. Lightroom (the web version) is the big villain of this piece, but Lightroom Classic isn’t entirely guilt-free. Both use a one-time import process that copes badly with subsequent external changes. This effectively locks you into using them as your sole digital hub from then on.

Filed Under: Featured, Lightroom, Opinion

What kind of photographer are you – literal, emotional or graphic?

May 1, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

Photography isn’t just about taking pictures of things. Very often you’re trying to capture something deeper, like a metaphor or an emotion or simply a graphically satisfying image. The trouble is that what you see isn’t necessarily what other people see. 

Filed Under: Featured, Photography, Sidebar

How to use DxO PureRAW in Lightroom Classic

April 28, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

DxO PureRAW 2’s processing is better than Lightroom’s, but it can also be used from WITHIN Lightroom. So how does that work, and are the results (a) really worth the effort and (b) as good as regular RAW files to edit?

Filed Under: Featured, PureRAW, Tutorials

The one great strength of non-destructive editing – it remembers what you did

April 27, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

Have you ever browsed your back catalog of images, re-discovered one with some edits that you really love… but you can’t remember how you did it? For someone like me who uses all sorts of software for all sorts of different techniques (and has a memory like mine) it’s a real issue.

Filed Under: Featured, General, Ideas

How I use merged HDR stacks as ’super-negatives’

April 26, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

Lightroom and Capture One offer HDR tools with a difference. They don’t create wild and exaggerated HDR effects. Instead, they create what I would call DNG ‘super-negatives’ with extended dynamic range that you can then exploit however you like.

Filed Under: Capture One, Featured, Lightroom, Tutorials

Is luminance masking all it’s cracked up to be? I’m not convinced

April 25, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

Luminance masks sound like the perfect solution to a perennial problem – restricting masks to specific brightness ranges. But how useful are they really?

Filed Under: Featured, Tutorials

Preset picks: Analog Efex Pro Double Exposures

April 24, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

Analog Efex Pro’s double exposure tool is one of the features that makes this program unique. Here’s a breakdown of how its Double Exposure presets work and how they combine double exposures with other effects.

Filed Under: Featured, Nik Collection, Tutorials

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