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Lightroom’s Graduated Filter tool in action

July 19, 2013 by Rod Lawton

Lightroom graduated filter

Lightroom’s Graduated Filter tool is great. It’s designed to replicate the effect of real-life graduated filters in landscape photography, reducing the brightness of skies so that there’s less of a contrast difference with the landscape itself. It’s not much good if the sky is so overexposed that there’s no detail left, but if you shoot […]

Filed Under: Lightroom, TutorialsTagged With: Graduated filters

Boost contrast with Silver Efex Pro’s vignettes

July 18, 2013 by Life after Photoshop

Nik Software Silver Efex Pro vignette

The old-fashioned art of black and white photography went far beyond the initial picture-taking. Another, equally important creative process took place in the darkroom, where the image was dodged and burned to enhance the tones and concentrate the viewer’s gaze on the subject and composition. Dodging and burning is a bit of a lost art. […]

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

Give your images Clarity in Lightroom

July 18, 2013 by Rod Lawton

Lightroom Clarity slider

The technical explanation of Lightroom’s Clarity slider is  that it increases localised contrast to make objects, shapes and outlines stand out more clearly. The pictorial effect is that your images gain extra ‘punch’, but without pushing the overall contrast levels too high. It’s especially effective when the lighting is quite flat and lifeless, and I’m […]

Filed Under: Lightroom, TutorialsTagged With: Clarity

Capture One Pro 7’s offline mode springs a surprise

July 16, 2013 by Rod Lawton

Capture One offline editing

Capture One Pro 7 is a big upgrade on the previous version, and one of the biggest additions is the built-in library function. It now works just like Adobe Lightroom, storing all your images in a searchable database, complete with Lightroom-style Collections and Smart Collections. You can also use it in offline mode. This means […]

Filed Under: Capture One, TutorialsTagged With: Organising

Better sunsets with Color Efex Pro Bi-Color Filters

July 14, 2013 by Rod Lawton

Nik Software Color Efex Pro Bi Color filter

In the days of film you could rely on emulsions like Fuji Velvia and Kodachrome to exaggerate and intensify the colours of a sunset, but today’s digital cameras deliver a more accurate rendition… which can also be quite disappointing. This picture is a good example. Admittedly, the conditions weren’t ideal for sunsets – it was […]

Filed Under: Nik Collection, TutorialsTagged With: Graduated filters

Lightroom 5’s new Upright tool

July 12, 2013 by Rod Lawton

Lightroom 5 Upright tool

Lightroom looks and feels a lot like Lightroom 4, but there are some key new features. One of these is the new Upright tool, which can automatically correct perspective problems in shots of buildings and other rectangular objects. Note: In the latest versions of Lightroom, the Upright tools are now found in the Geometry panel. […]

Filed Under: Lightroom, TutorialsTagged With: Perspective correction

How to get the most from the Capture One High Dynamic Range controls

July 10, 2013 by Rod Lawton

Capture One Dynamic Range

Capture One Pro 7 is not just an excellent RAW converter. Like Adobe Lightroom it has some quite sophisticated adjustment controls. In particular, the Capture One High Dynamic Range sliders are very good at extracting the maximum latent highlight and shadow detail in RAW files. This is not HDR in the usual sense, where you […]

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Filed Under: Capture One, TutorialsTagged With: HDR, Highlight recovery, Shadow recovery

Better landscapes with Color Efex Pro’s Contrast Color Range tool

July 5, 2013 by Rod Lawton

Color Efex Pro Contrast Color Range

Color Efex Pro 4, part of the DxO Nik Collection, is a single plug-in that consists of a huge library of special effects – these are displayed in a long vertical list on the left side of the screen. And in true Nik style, it shows you how your pictures can look before you even […]

Filed Under: Nik Collection, Tutorials

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