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Improve your compositions with two graduated filters not one

August 17, 2017 by Rod Lawton Leave a Comment

Improve your compositions with two graduated filters not one

If you want to add a dark and brooding sky to your black and white photos then a graduated filter is the obvious way to do it. As long as the sky still has a full range of tones, i.e. it's not burned out to a solid white anywhere, you can practically do what you like with it. Here's an example. This picture is already quite rich and contrasty, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Ideas, Lightroom Tagged With: Black and white, Graduated filters

Restore faded art using levels and curves

August 15, 2017 by Rod Lawton Leave a Comment

Restore faded art using 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 they overlap in what … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Ideas, Lightroom Tagged With: Curves, Levels

Add depth and drama with a vignette effect

August 14, 2017 by Rod Lawton 1 Comment

Add depth and drama with a 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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Ideas, Lightroom Tagged With: Vignette

Rediscover dodging and burning in black and white

August 8, 2017 by Rod Lawton Leave a Comment

Rediscover dodging and burning in black and white

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 to make them lighter and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Ideas, Lightroom Tagged With: Black and white, Dodging and burning

Best image browser and cataloguing software

August 4, 2017 by Rod Lawton 4 Comments

Best image browser and cataloguing software

If you organise your photos by folders and find this perfectly satisfactory, then you can use any number of different programs to keep your images organised. Adobe Bridge is a good starting point as an image browser if you already have Photoshop, and ON1 Photo RAW and Alien Skin Exposure are two examples of all-in-one programs that have image … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Adobe, Alien Skin, Aperture, Apple, Capture One Pro, Exposure, Featured, Lightroom, ON1, ON1 Photo RAW, Phase One, Reviews, Software

Adobe Lightroom for mobile update July 2017

July 20, 2017 by Rod Lawton Leave a Comment

Adobe Lightroom for mobile update July 2017

Lightroom for mobile has steadily evolved from a portable way to check out pictures in your Lightroom catalog into a powerful and useful sidekick for the desktop app, and the new Android and iOS versions make it more powerful still. Version 3.0 for Android brings a redesigned, faster and more efficient app that’s a better match for the Android … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Adobe, Featured, Lightroom, Mobile photography, News, Software

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