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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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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 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…