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When to use Capture One’s Light Falloff slider

February 21, 2021 by Rod Lawton

This is a great tool when you’re working with lenses that suffer from vignetting. Most modern lenses are pretty good in this respect and Capture One will usually have a lens profile that corrects vignetting and distortion and chromatic aberration at the same time. But if you’re working with older vintage lenses, or cheap lo-fi […]

Filed Under: Capture One, Featured, TutorialsTagged With: Aberrations, Corner shading

ON1 Photo RAW Replace Color filter, new in 2021

December 10, 2020 by Rod Lawton

The Replace Color filter is a new feature in ON1 Photo RAW 2021, though it will be a familiar option to many users of Photoshop and other programs. It does exactly what it says, allowing you to select a color in the image and replace it with another.

Filed Under: Featured, ON1 Photo RAW, Tutorials

The new Capture One Dehaze tool is NOT the same as Lightroom Dehaze

December 9, 2020 by Rod Lawton

The new Dehaze slider in Capture One 21 shares the same name as the tool in Lightroom, and the same aim – to reduce atmospheric haze in outdoor shots and restore contrast and depth. Capture One 21 does this using some advanced algorithms and a ‘matrix’ of adjustments which aren’t disclosed. Lightroom appears to use […]

Filed Under: Capture One, Featured, TutorialsTagged With: Dehaze

How to use the Lightroom Dehaze tool

November 11, 2020 by Rod Lawton

The Lightroom Dehaze tool is very powerful – often too powerful. It increases local contrast but also makes images darker and more saturated. It’s often better used with local adjustments and not on the whole image.

Filed Under: Featured, Lightroom, TutorialsTagged With: Dehaze, Graduated filters

How to use Aurora HDR with Lightroom as a plug-in: for single exposures or bracketed sets

November 10, 2020 by Rod Lawton

You can use Aurora HDR 2019 as a standalone program, but if you have Lightroom it’s a lot easier and more efficient to launch it from Lightroom as a plug-in. You can use Aurora HDR with Lightroom very easily, but the method is not the same for single images and bracketed exposures.

Filed Under: Aurora HDR, Featured, Tutorials, WorkflowTagged With: Aurora HDR (Skylum), HDR, Plug-ins

Balancing rocks on Poltesco beach, Exposure X5

October 6, 2020 by Life after Photoshop

Balancing rocks on Poltesco beach, Exposure X5: When I saw this balancing pile of rocks, I was sure I could make a picture out of it, with the pebble beach in the foreground and the silvery sea and sky in the background.

Filed Under: Exposure X, Featured, TutorialsTagged With: Black and white

Icelandic sea stacks in Capture One

October 4, 2020 by Rod Lawton

The radial filter tool in Capture One, Lightroom and other image editors is great for ‘relighting’ scenes to add drama and depth.

Filed Under: Capture One, Featured, TutorialsTagged With: Clarity, Radial mask, White balance

Porthleven power lines in Lightroom: one LUT, three graduated filters

September 30, 2020 by Life after Photoshop

Porthleven power lines in Lightroom: one LUT, three graduated filters. How a series of tools and effects can be used in combination towards an overall ‘look’.

Filed Under: Featured, Lightroom, TutorialsTagged With: Black and white, Graduated filters, LUTs, Vignette

How to highlight a color and then suppress the rest

August 27, 2020 by Rod Lawton

Color is great, most of the time. But sometimes colors can fight with each other or just undermine the mood you’re trying to create. This is where an understanding of how your software’s color controls work can be a big advantage.

Filed Under: Exposure X, Featured, TutorialsTagged With: Color adjustment

The Detail Extractor in Analog Efex Pro is like a magic bullet for contrast issues

August 25, 2020 by Rod Lawton

Analog Efex Pro, part of the DxO Nik Collection has an excellent tool that’s easily missed but lies at the heart of many of this software’s striking analog film effects.

Filed Under: Featured, Nik Collection, TutorialsTagged With: Analog, Analog Efex Pro (Nik Collection), HDR, Nik Collection (DxO)

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