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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

Volume distortion: this is what it looks like and this tool can fix it

April 15, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

Volume distortion (or volumetric distortion) is not a familiar term to most photographers, but it’s what makes ultra-wide shots look distorted at the edges, and it can be fixed… by the right software.

Filed Under: Featured, Nik Collection, TutorialsTagged With: Aberrations, Barrel distortion, Distortion, Volumetric distortion

The Lightroom Select Subject mask tool and how it works

April 12, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

Lightroom’s masking tools have had a major overhaul. The old Adjustment Brush, Linear Gradient and Radial Gradient tools are still there, but they’ve been joined by new Select Subject and Select Sky AI masking tools and Color Range, Luminance Range and Depth range tools. Here’s how Select Subject works.

Filed Under: Featured, Lightroom, Tutorials

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

How to use HDR merge in Capture One 22 – and how well does it work?

April 1, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

Capture One 22 brings an HDR merge feature that quickly combines several exposures into a single fully editable DNG file with extended dynamic range. But how well does it work?

Filed Under: Capture One, Featured, TutorialsTagged With: Bracketing, Capture One, HDR

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