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Don’t just accept Lightroom’s default Adobe Color profile

August 10, 2022 by Rod Lawton

It’s easily done. You view a RAW image in Lightroom, it applies the default Adobe Color profile and you don’t even bother to question it. You can see what you don’t like, you do some editing – sometimes it takes a while – and you fix it. But often you’re fixing an issue introduced by the default Lightroom profile, and not something that actually needs fixing!

Filed Under: Featured, Lightroom, Tutorials

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

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

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, TutorialsTagged With: Bits and bit depth, Bracketing, DNG, Dynamic range, HDR

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, TutorialsTagged With: Analog Efex Pro (Nik Collection), Light leak, Multiple exposure, Nik Collection (DxO)

Lightroom Color Grading tool: how does it work and is it useful?

April 21, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

I have to admit I wasn’t massively impressed by the Color Grading panel when it was added to Lightroom. It looked like it was replacing the Split Toning panel with something less focused and more complicated. I was wrong!

Filed Under: Featured, Lightroom, Tutorials

Dramatic skies and silhouettes with Silver Efex Pro

April 18, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

Silver Efex Pro

I love Silver Efex Pro. It’s a black and white photography plug-in developed by Nik Software and now part of the DxO Nik Collection. What makes it great is that it recaptures the look and feel of traditional darkroom black and white in a way that other plug-ins don’t. The preset effects down the left […]

Filed Under: Nik Collection, TutorialsTagged With: Black and white, Silver Efex Pro

Color Efex Pro’s B/W Conversion filter is surprisingly good

April 17, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

Color Efex Pro might not be your first choice for black and white conversions when the Nik Collection also has Silver Efex Pro and Analog Efex Pro, but if you want strong results fast, it might be just what you need.

Filed Under: Featured, Nik Collection, Tutorials

Open in Camera Raw: the Lightroom alternative right under your nose!

April 16, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

Adobe Bridge and Camera Raw make a great alternative to Lightroom, with all the same editing tools but in a simpler workflow with no tiresome imports, just ‘live’ image browsing and editing.

Filed Under: Featured, Lightroom, Tutorials, WorkflowTagged With: Adobe Camera Raw (ACR), Bridge (Adobe), Browser (photos), RAW processing

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