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Before and After – On the Ouse at York
Well, it seems like months since I did a before and after in Lightroom. So, I thought I would do a before and after (With Settings) that I used on the image below. Lightroom Settings Edit Panel Lens Corrections Panel Transform Basic Panel HSL Panel Detail Panel Effects Panel Masking Panel Mask 1 I selected…
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Going forward…
Back in July 2018, I set myself a challenge, to make a post every day for a year well, that one year turned into two… so in July I decided to take a well-earned break. Blogging got me through the lockdown.. but I found I was spending more hours on a computer than I really…
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Multiple Adjustments – My Quick Way of Doing things. Fan of….#65
Take the above image for instance… say I wanted to change the tone of the steps. Yes, I could use the local adjustment brush tool.. but one way I’ve found that is very easy is this. Set all your sliders to 0. Put a graduated filter outside of the image in Lightroom Next, change the…
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Scotney Castle – Adding Depth
One of my readers asked how I get depth into my images. Well, a lot of it is done by dodging and burning. And the tool I use is the radial filter. TiongHan Hi Bren, one day I hope you can explain to me how you get that incredible depth in your photos… Mine feel…
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Adding Artificial Light
We all can’t get up at the crack of dawn or wait to photograph a subject when the light is perfect. Like us, we have day trips out… as work commitments stop us from doing photography shoots as and when we choose. So naturally, the light at times is never right. However, you can…
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Adding Texture
Whilst shooting my latest still-life I decided to remove the crate and add a black backdrop. By using a black backdrop… in Photoshop via the Magic Wand tool I was able to add textures, whilst masking out the black section so that the main texture affected just the black background. I then added a hue…
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Sheffield Gardens Path – Tutorial.
Lightroom Added Lens Correction and Remove Chromatic Abberation. Used the Transform Tool set to Auto and cropped the image. Sent to Photoshop.
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Amazing Clouds by Matt Kloskowski
One photographer who I do follow is Matt Kloskowski on Youtube. Tonight I watched one of his videos about making clouds more amazing in Photoshop. And just like his other videos, I found it a great benefit.
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Processing an image – My Way.
First and foremost I use Lightroom for as much of the editing as I can. Very rarely do I go to Photoshop to process an image.. unless I want to create something that can’t be achieved in Lightroom. So how do I process my image? Develop Module in Lightroom Lightroom now gives you the ability…
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Combining Presets in Topaz Studio – Penshurst Plance
One of the things I love about Topaz Studio is the ability to combine presets. By combining various presets together it gives you a vast variety of options when editing images. My original image of Penshurst Place was first of all given a couple of tweaks in Lightroom, mainly cropping, spot removal, and auto transforming…
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Flower of the Day – 5th November 2018 – How to achieve softness
For my entry today into Cee’s Flower of the Day, I thought I would use this apricot rose, which was photographed at Riverhill Himalayan Gardens in Kent.
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Content aware fill
One of the new powerful features in Photoshop is the Content-Aware Fill tool. In this video, Julianne Kost explains its concept and what it can do. I wanted to take the content-aware tool a little further. As you can see from the image below, the waterfall is practically dead-centre and I wanted it more to…
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