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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 2 review

March 17, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

Verdict: 4.6 stars: DxO PureRAW 2 is a raw ‘pre-processor’ which applies DxO’s bespoke lens corrections and unmatched noise reduction to RAW files – and it now integrates with a Lightroom Classic workflow and processes Fujifilm X-Trans images too.

Filed Under: Best software, Featured, PureRAW, ReviewsTagged With: Aberrations, Corner shading

Lightroom now supports Apple iPhone 13 ProRAW DNGs directly

March 16, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

This doesn’t sound like massively significant news, but there’s more to this than meets the eye for iPhone 13 and Lightroom users. It doesn’t just change the results they can expect, but potentially their workflow too.

Filed Under: Featured, Lightroom, Mobile, Tutorials

Black and white photography basics

March 15, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

Black and white photography is as popular now as ever. Here are some key things to know about black and white photography with digital cameras, and how they change the way you see, shoot and edit black and white.

Filed Under: Editing A-Z, Featured, GeneralTagged With: Black and white, Silver Efex Pro

Get free Lightroom presets, profiles and LUTs from ON1 Software

March 13, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

You can use ON1’s free presets and profiles in both Lightroom and Lightroom Classic and its LUTs will work with any program that supports LUTs.

Filed Under: Featured, Lightroom, ON1 Photo RAW, Tutorials

How to install Lightroom presets and profiles

March 12, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

How to install Lightroom presets

Everyone’s heard of Lightroom presets, but Lightroom profiles are relatively new. So first of all, what’s the difference, how do they work and which ones should you use? More to the point, how do you install them?

Filed Under: Featured, Lightroom, Tutorials

Local adjustments explained

March 10, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

Local adjustments

‘Local adjustments’ is a bit of a catch-all term. It means picking out an area of an image for adjustment while leaving the rest unchanged. So how do local adjustments work and which software does them best?

Filed Under: Editing A-Z, Featured, GeneralTagged With: Adjustment brush, Adjustment layer, Brush, Burning in, Control point, Dodging and burning, Feathering, Gradient mask, Local adjustments, Luminance mask, Masks, Non-destructive editing, Radial mask, Selection brush, Sensei (Adobe), Subject recognition

Plug ins and external editors explained

March 8, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

Plug ins and external editors are part of most photographers’ workflows. But how do they work and what’s the difference?

Filed Under: Editing A-Z, Featured, General

Adobe Lightroom review (2022)

March 6, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

Lightroom 2022

Verdict: 4 stars Lightroom is Adobe’s bold vision of a cloud-based photo organizing and editing tool where all your images can be organised, edited and viewed anywhere on any device. For mobile users and content creators it’s a clever and effective proposition, but for regular photographers, while its editing tools continue to impress, its restrictions, the closed nature of its editing ecosystem and its cost remain a major barrier.

Filed Under: Best software, Featured, Lightroom, ReviewsTagged With: Adobe, AI (artificial intelligence), Album, Asset management, Catalog, Cataloguing software, Cloud storage, Creative Cloud (Adobe), DAM (Digital Asset Management), Lightroom (Adobe), Non-destructive editing, Photography Plan (Adobe), RAW processing, Sensei (Adobe), Smart album/collection, Subject recognition

Shadows, midtones and highlights explained

March 5, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

Shadows, midtones and highlights explained

Photographers often use the terms ‘shadows’, ‘midtones’ and ‘highlights’ as if their meaning is obvious. Perhaps it is, but it still probably deserves a little explanation.

Filed Under: Editing A-Z, Featured

The best photo editing software for organizing, editing, RAW and effects

March 4, 2022 by Rod Lawton

Choosing the best image editing software can be complicated. It all depends on what you look for most in your photo editing software. Here are 12 programs with their own distinct strengths.

Filed Under: Capture One, Exposure X, Featured, Lightroom, Luminar, Nik Collection, ON1 Photo RAW, PhotoLab, Photoshop, Reviews, SidebarTagged With: Affinity Photo, Aperture (Apple), Asset management, Capture One, Cataloguing software, DAM (Digital Asset Management), Exposure X (software), Lightroom (Adobe), Lightroom Classic (Adobe), Luminar (Skylum), Nik Collection (DxO), ON1 Photo RAW, PhotoLab (DxO), RAW processing

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