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For this shot I cheated. I didn’t use a computer at all

December 1, 2020 by Rod Lawton

That sounds an odd thing to say. Most people associate digital manipulation with ‘cheating’, but it’s all about the context. This site is all about digital manipulation and I didn’t even use a computer.

Filed Under: Featured, General, Ideas Tagged With: Black and white, Borders and frames, Composition, Grain

10 myths about RAW files – and why they’re wrong

October 2, 2020 by Rod Lawton

Almost any photographic expert will tell you that you should shoot RAW files not JPEGs, and that RAW files are innately superior. The trouble with this kind of wisdom is that it’s repeated and passed on without question.

Filed Under: Featured, General, Workflow Tagged With: 14-bit RAW, JPEG vs RAW, RAW file, RAW processing, RAW+JPEG

Photo retouching: how it works, tools and tactics

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 Tagged With: Perspective correction

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 Tagged With: Cropping, Straighten

BAN adjustments… Basic And Necessary image corrections to do first

September 11, 2020 by Rod Lawton

BAN (Basic And Necessary) adjustments are for fixing obvious flaws in your photos. They will help you decide if images have the potential to be ‘keepers’ and prepare them properly for creative effects later.

Filed Under: Featured, General, Workflow

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 Tagged With: Color adjustment, HSL adjustments

One subject, six different LUTS: choosing a ‘look’ for your images

August 26, 2020 by Rod Lawton

I’m a big fan of LUTs (lookup tables). They are used in cinematography to give movies a specific ‘look’ but they’ve now crossed over into stills photography, where they are used for everything from vintage effects to film simulations.

Filed Under: Capture One, Featured, General Tagged With: Lutify.me, LUTs

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 Tagged With: Apple Photos, Cloud storage, Dropbox, Lightroom CC, ON1 Photo RAW, SmugMug

White balance tips: 12 ways to control and use white balance more effectively

July 26, 2020 by Rod Lawton

White balance sounds a pretty simple image adjustment, but there’s a little more to it than meets the eye. Here are 12 white balance tips that might help you get the results you want and explain what’s gone wrong if you don’t.

Filed Under: Featured, General Tagged With: Color temperature, RAW file, RAW processing, Temperature (white balance), Tint (white balance), White balance, White balance presets

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