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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

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

Panoramic photography tips: how to shoot panoramas successfully

April 10, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

Panoramic photography is really easy to do but not so easy to get right. Your software can work wonders, but you have to give it a fighting chance. Here are 10 panoramic photography tips that might help.

Filed Under: Featured, General, Tutorials

Why calling RAW files ‘digital negatives’ is only half right

April 6, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

RAW files are not quite ‘digital negatives’. They are actually more like the latent images on undeveloped film and need a ‘digital developer’. Choosing the best digital developer (RAW processing software) can make a big difference to your images.

Filed Under: Featured, General, Workflow

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

March 31, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

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: General, Workflow

Cataloguing software explained

March 29, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

Cataloguing software can organize your entire photo collection, but how does it work and what do you look for?

Filed Under: Editing A-Z, Featured, General

Image metadata explained

March 19, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

Metadata is image information stored alongside or within a photo. You don’t see it in the image, but it can be read by different software applications to help filter, sort, search or identify images.

Filed Under: Editing A-Z, General

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, General

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, General

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

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