Life after Photoshop

Alternative photo editing apps, plug-ins and processes

Add depth and drama with a vignette effect

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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...]

Rediscover dodging and burning in black and white

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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...]

Best image browser and cataloguing software

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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...]

Adobe Lightroom for mobile update July 2017

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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...]

Lightroom CC updates

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Adobe is continually updating Lightroom CC with bug fixes, new camera and lens profiles and, sometimes, new features. This is where you'll find a list of the latest Lightroom CC updates and what they include. Lightroom CC/Photography plan trial version and offers Lightroom update tips Bug fixes and new lens profiles are excluded: see … [Read more...]