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Adobe Portfolio and Adobe Express
Have you just wanted a place to showcase your images? Do you subscribe to Adobe Creative Cloud? With the photography plan starting at £9.98 a month… which is less than a Starbucks or Costa Coffee a week, you get the benefits of not just Lightroom Mobile, Lightroom Classic and Photoshop, but also Adobe Portfolio and…
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On1 Photo Raw 2023
Now I don’t know about you… but real-life gets in the way at times… when you are cooking, cleaning, doing mundane household tasks, trying to keep up with blogging can be a bit hard at times. Trying to fit it all in, can be a chore within itself. That is where Software comes into play.…
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Yellow Flower
Camera: Canon EOS 70DLens: Canon EF-S60mm f/2.8 Macro USMF/Number: f/3.5ISO: 100Focal Distance: 60 mm Shutter Speed: 1/250 secPhotograph Date: 31.07.2022Location: Great Comp Gardens near Sevenoaks in KentPhotographer: BrenSoftware: Adobe Lightroom Classic and ON1 Photo RAW 2023 A little bit more of experimentation using On1 Photo RAW 2023, on this yellow flower that was photographed Great…
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On1 RAW 2023 – Sky Replacement
Camera: Canon EOS 70DLens: Canon EF-S18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STMF/Number: f/7.1ISO: 100Focal Distance: 29mm Shutter Speed: 1/80 secPhotograph Date: 09.10.2023Location: Sheffield Park GardensPhotographer: BrenSoftware: Adobe Lightroom Classic and On1 Raw 2023 Today is the release date of the new ON1 Photo RAW 2023 Software. And so far, I’ve tried this out on three different images and…
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Adding a Radiance Filter in Topaz Studio 2
Camera: Canon EOS 70DLens: Canon EF-S24mm f/2.8 STMF/Number: f/7.1ISO: 100 Focal Distance: 24 mmShutter Speed: 1/60 secSoftware: Adobe Lightroom CC, Topas Studio 2 and PhotoshopPhotographer: Bren Ryan Last night I was playing around with an image I photographed of Ashenbank Woods… I wanted to create a paint effect so edited the image in Photoshop and…
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Luminar 4 – Sky Replacement
Do you have images that have bland skies? Just like this one! It was a bright blue spring day when the above image was shot. I just loved how tall this tree was.. but the backdrop of the sky just wasn’t right. So a trip to Luminar 4 and a touch of sky replacement and…
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Luminar 4 – Review
Today I have been given the opportunity to try Luminar 4 which will be released in a few days time. Well, all I can say is WOW! The Sky Enhancer, Landscape Enhancer, and AI Structure are great tools. With a revamp of the workflow area, you can easily create stunning images.
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GRFX Studio Serge
Serge Ramelli, is one photographer I do follow and I’ve just downloaded the free software. And boy does it make good of your images. So I thought I would try an image I took with my phone back when I was on holiday in San Francisco. Below is the original image. GRFX Studio Serge –…
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Luminar 3
Yesterday was the release of Luminar 3.. with its new Digital Asset Manager where you can now view a library element of all of your images. I love Luminar but I am afraid I won’t be leaving Adobe Lightroom just yet.. simply because of the Watermark Feature offered by Adobe and because I can’t upload…
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Cottage by Fountains Bridge
Just by the entrance of Fountains Abbey, stands Fountains Bridge on Fountains Lane… And on that road stands this wonderful and quaint English cottage. It is breathtakingly beautiful and believe it or not that road had a sharp right-hand turn that leads up to the Aldfield. The entrance is just up from that gate on…
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Penshurst Place
Carrying on from Matt’s Luminosity Colouring in Photoshop… I thought I would try this technique on a set of images which I turned into a panoramic shot of Penshurst Place. Oh boy, can you play around with the colours, using Matt’s tutorial! The sky was bland, there was little detail there, but by using this…
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Lightroom CC on laptop/desktop
I have been a stark advocate of Lightroom Classic, and would use Lightroom Mobile now and again on my phone or tablet. But when it came to processing a photograph in Lightroom CC on my desktop or laptop… well it never happened. Since downloading the software to my desktop and laptop I don’t think I’ve…