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Capture One 22 15.2.0 update brings improved perspective control and M1 Mac speed gains

April 5, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

The Capture One 22 15.2.0 update (free to existing users) brings more powerful keystone tools, faster M1 processing and new lens profiles.

Filed Under: Capture One, Featured, News, Uncategorized

10 things you should know about keywords

December 4, 2018 by Life after Photoshop

Keywords sound like the perfect way to find your photos later. You can create any number of keywords for any purpose and they’re supported by just about all photo-editing applications. What could possibly go wrong?

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Don’t be scared of high ISOs!

October 28, 2017 by Rod Lawton

High ISO noise reduction

Your camera’s sensor, your lens’s image stabiliser and the latest photo-editing software technology may surprise you with what they can do together. When you’re on vacation or on a once-in-a-lifetime trip or just strolling through warm city streets at night, you’re going to want to capture the sights with your camera but you don’t want […]

Filed Under: UncategorizedTagged With: Noise reduction

How to create a selective colour effect in Lightroom Classic

August 26, 2017 by Rod Lawton

Selective colour tutorial

There’s colour photography and there’s black and white, but sometimes there’s something in between which has its own very distinctive look. This tutorial is all about selective colour – making a black and white image but with one single colour preserved. In this case it’s red, which is usually the most popular choice for this […]

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How to add a new sky to a landscape without selections

August 25, 2017 by Rod Lawton

How to add a new sky to a landscape

Very often in landscape photography you get the landscape or the lighting you want, but not the sky. In the perfect world you’d keep going back again and again until everything was perfect. In our not-so-perfect-world, however, it’s sometimes useful to be able to add a new sky later, as the final touch to an […]

Filed Under: UncategorizedTagged With: Blend modes, Layers, Masks

Restore faded art using levels and curves

August 15, 2017 by Rod Lawton

Levels and curves

With careful use of levels and curves adjustments you can rescue even the faintest and most faded artworks and restore both saturation and contrast. Levels and curves are two of the most basic adjustment tools in any image-editing program, but there’s often confusion about which to use and when, and it often appears as if […]

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Add depth and drama with a vignette effect

August 14, 2017 by Rod Lawton

Vignette effect

Modern lenses are pretty good at creating even illumination across the frame, and if there is some corner shading (vignetting) you can use software to eliminate it. However, sometimes vignetting is good! Especially if you can control it creatively to improve your picture’s composition and contrast. This image below has all the ingredients for a […]

Filed Under: UncategorizedTagged With: Corner shading, Vignette

How to add age and drama with texture effects

August 13, 2017 by Rod Lawton

Texture effects

Digital images don’t have much texture. Your subjects might, of course, but the way cameras render tones is glassy-smooth (at low ISO settings anyway) and sometimes a little sterile. Adding a texture digitally can make a picture look more interesting, more tactile and more ‘hand made’. Textures can be very subtle, like the fine texture […]

Filed Under: UncategorizedTagged With: Analog, Textures

Rediscover dodging and burning in black and white

August 8, 2017 by Life after Photoshop

Dodging and burning

Back in the days of film, a ‘straight’ black and white print was only a stepping stone. A properly finished print was almost always enhanced with some skilled ‘dodging and burning’. Dodging and burning is a classic technique in black and white, where certain areas of a print are held back (dodged) under the enlarger […]

Filed Under: UncategorizedTagged With: Adjustment brush, Black and white, Burning in, Dodging and burning

Which film simulation plug-in is best?

December 7, 2013 by Rod Lawton

Film simulation plug-ins

I love film. It’s what I grew up with, and it’s what I made most of my photographic discoveries – and mistakes – with. I love its richness, depth, unpredictability and character. So I’m especially interested in any film simulation software which promises to replicate the look and feel of traditional silver-based films. But I’m […]

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