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Levels vs curves vs luma curves: ways to adjust contrast in photos

July 26, 2019 by Life after Photoshop

Levels and curves can both be used to adjust the contrast in photos, but how are they different, which should you use and is one better than the other?

Filed Under: Capture One, Editing A-Z, Featured, General, TutorialsTagged With: Curves, Histogram, Levels

Composition in photography: recognising and handling shapes

July 22, 2019 by Rod Lawton

Composition in photography can become very dry and technical when it’s reduced to a science. Here’s a way to see and work with shapes that’s simpler and more visual.

Filed Under: Featured, General, TutorialsTagged With: Composition

How to double-up on adjustments in Luminar and get twice the effect

July 18, 2019 by Rod Lawton

Luminar filters can be used in any combination, but did you know you can use the same filter twice? This is especially useful with the Accent AI 2.0 filter.

Filed Under: Featured, Luminar, TutorialsTagged With: Quick fixes

Composition in photography: how to ‘read’ pictures

July 7, 2019 by Rod Lawton

Welcome to an occasional series on composition in photography. Life after Photoshop is usually about image editing tools and techniques, but many of the decisions we make about editing, cropping and local adjustments are based around effective composition, so it is a closely related discipline. Of course, this doesn’t replace the photographer’s ‘eye’ when taking […]

Filed Under: Featured, TutorialsTagged With: Composition

How to create a polarising filter digitally, and why it’s not the same as the real thing

July 1, 2019 by Rod Lawton

Digital polarising effect

Polarising filters are often used to darken blue skies. You can do this digitally instead – though polarisers do more besides that you cannot do digitally.

Filed Under: Featured, General, Tutorials

Preset picks: Capture One ‘Seasonal’ SN-04

June 26, 2019 by Rod Lawton

Preset Picks: The SN-04 Style from Capture One’s Seasonal Style pack (sold separately) has a very rich, warm look. Here’s how the Style is created.

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

Preset picks: Alien Skin Border – Negative (Kodalith)

June 25, 2019 by Life after Photoshop

Preset Picks: This time, Alien Skin’s Border – Negative (Kodalith) preset goes under the microscope. Using just three tools it transforms regular images into super-strong graphic black and white.

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

Tool tips: Luminar Orton Effect filter

June 24, 2019 by Rod Lawton

Tool tips: The Luminar Orton Effect is a way to combine an ethereal soft focus ‘glow’ with sharp detail in a way that goes beyond ordinary soft focus techniques. This is how it works in Skylum Luminar.

Filed Under: Featured, Luminar, TutorialsTagged With: Soft focus

Preset picks: ON1 MacArthur preset

June 23, 2019 by Rod Lawton

Preset picks: The ON1 MacArthur preset stacks two instances of the ON1 Textures filter and adds the Dynamic Contrast filter to give the look of a textured, sun-faded vintage colour print.

Filed Under: Featured, ON1 Photo RAW, TutorialsTagged With: Contrast, Textures

Does the new Capture One 12.1 X-Trans processing make any difference?

June 14, 2019 by Rod Lawton

It’s fine for Phase One to say the Capture One 12.1 X-Trans processing has been improved, but can you actually see the difference? (It was pretty good already.)

Filed Under: Capture One, Featured, TutorialsTagged With: Bayer sensor, RAW processing, X-Trans sensor

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